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...construction of reservoirs, allowing 50% of river-water resources to go to waste in the sea. India's politicians have a habit of ignoring expert advice if it does not suit their selfish interests. In view of the diminishing rainfall, India needs to construct more reservoirs and transfer surplus water from one area to another to increase production of food and hydroelectric power. The states should learn to share available water and help improve the economic condition of India's rural poor. R.S.N. Murthy Hyderabad, India...
...Chaoyang hospital in central Beijing is an unlikely place to seek cutting-edge treatment. Orderlies in the shabby five-story building pile surplus furniture in the crowded hallways and push patients around on jerry-rigged gurneys made with bicycle wheels. Yet Nan Davis has traveled halfway around the globe to undergo a new procedure available only here. Six hours ago, Dr. Huang Hongyun injected 1.5 million fetal cells into her damaged spinal cord. Davis, a teacher from Ohio, hasn't walked since 1978 after a car crash left her paralyzed from the bottom of her rib cage down. Shortly after...
...young actor who has just opened a blockbuster thriller. But the title refers to the homeboys from Queens--including his unofficial manager Eric (Kevin Connolly) and chucklehead pal Turtle (Jerry Ferrara)--who live in his L.A. house, ride in his Rolls, smoke his pot and score his surplus women. ("Come on, make out with me," Turtle cajoles one. "I'll show you where Vince eats breakfast.") In return, they make him feel safe...
...China aren't buying American bonds out of charity. They're doing it to shore up the dollar and prevent their own currencies from appreciating; this is making their exports cheaper and more appealing to American consumers. One result is that Japan and China have been running enormous trade surpluses with America. They have then reinvested a chunk of that surplus in U.S. bonds. Trans-Pacific trade is thus starting to look like that theoretical impossibility, a perpetual-motion machine: America pays for Asian goods with borrowed money, then Asia uses the profits from these sales to lend more money...
...school reversed a fiscal year 2002 deficit of $5.9 million and ran a modest surplus last year. But balancing the budget came at a steep cost: the school cut 47 staff positions...