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...ward at Richland International Hospital, a private facility in Kunming, Yunnan province, costs anywhere from $60 to $320 depending on whether patients choose standard or VIP care, according to Tommy Chu, director of China Health Management Corp., a Las Vegas--based company that entered a joint venture with Yunnan-based Richard Technology Co. in 2006 to build and run the hospital. That's three to 10 times the cost of a day in a public-hospital ward...
Like Katrina, the tragedy is found in the particular and often reflected in the horrors facing the most vulnerable. In November 2005, three months after Katrina blew though New Orleans, 82-year-old Marguerite Simon sat on her front porch on Egania Street in the Ninth Ward. Spread out on the bushes along the path to the front door of her small home was an American flag, drying in the sun. The tiny, small-boned woman wearing rubber boots and a paper mask, had smoothed out the crumpled, wet flag that had draped her late husband's coffin...
...shortages have again made North Korea a ward of the international community. At the request of Pyongyang, the World Food Program (WFP) has stepped up its relief effort in recent months. The agency plans to provide food in the coming weeks for more than 6 million North Koreans - about a quarter of the population. In certain parts of the country, particularly the northeast, the situation is "reaching a level of humanitarian emergency," says Jean-Pierre de Margerie, the WFP's country director for North Korea in Pyongyang...
...point, the last (or maybe first) thing you’d expect is the blind to break out singing as if in a seeing-impaired musical. But something similar, and potentially worse, happens: they all begin to whistle along. This ironically cheerful moment is abruptly severed, as the various wards form mock governments. The self-proclaimed “King of the Third Ward,” played by Gael Garcia Bernal, claims that he will only distribute food in exchange for women. In ridiculously cheesy “I am Spartacus!” fashion, the women...
...same property-owning societies like you have in the U.S.,"Buik says. "The temptation, even pressure to borrow as much as you need to buy as much as you want was never the same in Europe." That relative prudence isn't likely to be enough, however, to ward off economic pain from the U.S. in the long...