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...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Strategic National Stockpile currently contains only 119 million masks - 39 million surgical and 80 million respirator. That's less than 1% of the goal health officials set in 2007 following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which highlighted the country's shortages of vital medical gear. (See pictures of the swine flu in Mexico...
...invaluable testing ground for scientists. "Coral is the bedrock of our nation," says Azeez, who works at a coral-research and -regeneration facility at the Banyan Tree resort. With enough investment, he reckons the country can not only pioneer methods to mitigate rising waters, but also provide a vital gauge of how nature itself can adapt to the ravages of global warming. Far more populous low-lying countries, from Bangladesh to the Netherlands, will watch with interest. "Very small places can offer very big answers," says Ahmed Moosa, the editor of the online Dhivehi Observer, who has also been appointed...
...that a great project is not completed or fulfilled in a year, decade or even quarter-century. Some of Benedict's would-be defenders suggest that once he has made his visit to the Jewish homeland, the Pope is right to "move on." He knows better: like any other vital priority his church takes into its stewardship, this one too must be heeded and tended, not just now but for the (very) long haul...
...posturing nearly drowned out the testimony of the only man at the hearing who had real experience extracting vital information from al-Qaeda terrorists: former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan. With cameras turned away from his face in order to protect his identity, Soufan gave a detailed account of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah. The suspected al-Qaeda operative, he said, was giving up actionable intelligence - including the identities of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the so-called dirty bomber, Jose Padilla - long before the controversial interrogation techniques were applied. Once the harsh methods were used, Abu Zubaydah just shut...
...tense standoffs in recent months between American and PLA surveillance vessels near China's southern Hainan island may be an augur of what lies ahead. A new submarine base there gives Beijing a vital edge in the South China Sea, whose waters are contested by five other governments. The disputed Spratly and Paracel archipelagoes, which sit above reserves of natural gas, have been an ongoing bone of contention between China, Taiwan and Vietnam. Further afield, China and India, Asia's other rising giant, are locked in a protracted contest of influence over the Indian Ocean, with China setting...