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...hinged to foundations, or caissons, in the seabed and to lie flat there. The gates would usually be filled with water, but when tides rise to a height of 43 in. or more, compressed air would pump the water out. The free end of the gates would then float upward, breaking the surface after about 30 minutes and sealing off the inlets. Sea locks would permit ships to pass while the gates...
...government neglect. While residents of the mainland's wealthier cities enjoy decent medical care, the network of doctors, clinics and hospitals serving the rural poor are simply unavailable to huge swaths of the population. Preventable scourges like tuberculosis and hepatitis B ravage the countryside, infant mortality is creeping upward after decades in decline?and now, with millions of migrant workers leaving their jobs in cities and streaming back to the hinterlands to escape SARS, it seems inevitable that some will infect villagers in places least able to cope with a medical crisis. If that happens, China and the world could...
...companies without a health plan, he says, it would make one affordable. He argues that the tax credits would stimulate the economy and help strapped state and local governments to cover their workers. The plan's big drawback is its price tag--$213 billion the first year and upward from there--which does not exactly bolster the Democrats' case that they're the party of fiscal discipline. And the plan does little to contain the soaring cost of health care. But Gephardt has accomplished at least one thing: he has put health care back on the political map. --By Karen...
...list. But instead of using its vast autocratic apparatus early on, Beijing's leaders lost key weeks in curbing the disease by pretending there was no problem. Now, China's central government is playing a desperate game of catch-up as the number of reported SARS cases ticks ever upward?there were more than 3,900 confirmed patients, 2,500 suspected cases and 190 deaths as of last weekend. If the tide of nervous migrant workers continues to disperse the disease into the countryside, the fear that has already gripped the capital could spread nationwide...
...sure that there will be serious upward pressure on oil prices. This is much less an “issue” and more an economic fact. If the U.S. is to ensure its energy supply and make the transition to a more mixed portfolio of energy sources, then it must act now and invest where it can expect a return—in serious, aggressive measures to change the outdated paradigm ruling our energy use—and stop subsidizing Big Oil. America has no time to waste and a lot to lose...