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...long from now, in June or July, Americans will get to take stock of a year's worth of economic carnage and a half-a-year of government effort to revive a moribund credit and financial system. If there are no signs of a recovery, tens of millions of people will experience a bewilderment which is entirely new to them...
...those uncertainties that keep the WHO on edge, even after most of the world has moved on from H1N1. The agency is looking to develop a new pandemic alert system that would reflect the potential severity of a new virus - as opposed to the current system, which registers only the transmissibility of a new virus, not how deadly it might be. That would be a good idea, although in the early days of a potential pandemic, there may not be time to wait and see how virulent a new pathogen is before alerting the world that it needs to respond...
...women who choose a military career to feel, as one of your subjects says, "basically forced to do things outside of what would normally be considered to be moral or ethical"? Another probable cause of the suicides: maybe recruiters feel overwhelming guilt for being part of a system that sends recruits into a horrible, senseless war that they themselves experienced. I hope your story helps make some changes in this system. Dolores Perez Priem, San Francisco...
...Berlusconi a good Prime Minister? Let's just say he's not much worse than his predecessors, and he sells himself better. He hasn't solved Italy's perennial problems - runaway public debt, red tape, organized crime, corruption, a grinding justice system and aging infrastructure - but at least he's provided stability. Italy averaged almost a government a year between the end of World War II and the turn of the century. Berlusconi completed his term between 2001 and 2006; re-elected in 2008, he may well last until 2013. (Read: "Why Berlusconi Loves a Good Gaffe...
Viruses spread faster than they used to. Our global financial system allowed America's subprime crisis to poison the world's economy. Another great symbol of globalization, jet travel, is capable of spreading a different type of infection - one that sickens not markets, but people...