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About five million people, or a quarter of the population of Mexico City's urban sprawl, woke up Thursday with dry taps. The drought was caused by the biggest stoppage in the city's main reservoir system in recent years to ration its depleting supplies. Government officials hope this and four other stoppages will keep water flowing until the summer rainy season fills the basins back up. But they warn that the Mexican capital needs to seriously overhaul its water system to stop an unfathomable disaster in the future. (See pictures of the world water crisis...
...onto the bars as processed voices recite news feeds into the space—emphasizes the fact that we live under a constant barrage of information; the final explores the ramifications of surveillance. Photographs of people who have walked through the exhibition appear on the white bars, as the system not only plays back the voices of previous visitors, but also reads aloud a list of phone numbers and addresses compiled from a database of their names. As a result, though the third movement is an artistic representation of surveillance, its existence and continuous innovation rely on the presence...
...unemployed (about $19 billion) and providing financing for small- and medium-sized companies (about $30 billion); improvements in health care, nursing and child care; subsidizing the development and use of solar energy and environmentally friendly technologies; and public-works projects to help regional economies. Revisions to the tax system, including tax cuts, are also included in the economic plan. (See pictures of Japan and the world...
...rainy day. Beijing realizes that among consumers "household savings are high (and their consumption low) because of structural factors" says Roubini in his report, citing such factors as the lack of adequate health care and unemployment benefits, poor rural infrastructure and public services, lack of a proper social security system, and underdeveloped credit markets for mortgage and consumer finance. These all conspire to place an almost insurmountable drag on the government's efforts to get its consumers to open their wallets. Domestic consumption accounts for about one-third of China's GDP, compared with around...
...attributed partly to a surge in bank lending that began in November. This, he notes, could only happen in an authoritarian country such as China, where the government can - and did - order the banks to lend. "The bottom line is that if this was a purely capitalist system, [lending] would be slowing," Wood says. Stimulus spending over the next three months will continue to boost economic activity, Wood says, but the impact will start to wear off later in the year. Absent a recovery in China's hugely important export sector, "the bigger risk in China...