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...Nepalis) and dysentery (currently infecting 5,000 people a day in Bangladesh) turning into full-blown epidemics. "This is just the beginning," says Dr. Sudhir Kumar as he distributes medicine and water-purifying tablets to refugees outside the Bihar city of Darbhanga, which has all but disappeared beneath a vast new lake...
...five oil producers in the world. That could be a vital source for the West, especially if the political kinks in the supply lines from Russia, the Middle East and Nigeria persist. Nazarbayev's government has signaled it wants a more active role in managing those vast resources. In 2003, it decreed that the state oil company, KazMunaiGaz, must be a 50% stakeholder in all new domestic oil and gas ventures. "This is not renationalization," says Martha Brill Olcott, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington and an expert on the Caspian region. "This...
...fire marshal ordered its doors shut last night more than an hour before Kerry took the stage. Delegates, special guests and reporters were barred from the DNC by police officers; and though a few VIPs talked their way in to catch for the nominee’s speech, the vast majority were forced to depart and watch Kerry from a local watering hole—or, for a lucky few gathered by one of the Center’s entrances, to witness an impromptu rendition of the candidate’s remarks by a foul-mouthed canine puppet...
Revealing quietly that he was in fact a self-proclaimed “member of the vast right-wing conspiracy,” Barrett explained his covert...
...said the Democratic Party could expand because it could work to satisfy the four basic desires of the vast majority of the country: jobs that pay well, health insurance for themselves and particularly for their children, strong public school education and a strong and ethical national security policy...