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...nationally. Clearly, a rising birth rate would place an enormous burden on China's social and medical infrastructure, which is far less developed than physical infrastructure like roads and rail. A change in emphasis will be essential. Hospitals will need vast new infusions of money and other resources. The weak system of homes for the elderly, child-care providers and other social services will have to be greatly expanded...
...officers, New Delhi has massively increased funding over the past few years. But much of this money - 45% last year - goes unspent and coordination between state police and the better-equipped and better-trained paramilitary units sent by the central government to help in the worst-hit areas is weak. "Often, our forces are not even called out [by the state police]," complains A. P. Maheshwari, inspector general of operations for the Central Reserve Police Force in New Delhi. (India's Home Minister agreed to be interviewed for this story but repeatedly canceled appointments with TIME...
...recent years, the Southeast has experienced a manufacturing boomlet, with foreign companies in particular setting up shop there to cater to the huge U.S. consumer market. Now, thanks to the weak dollar, they're looking overseas...
...feeding time at St. Kizito Hospital's malnutrition program. Children have been weighed and measured on the terrace, as they are every weekday morning, and now their weak crying and occasional shrieks fill the air. Mothers dribble formula into their infants' mouths, while older and stronger kids munch on a fortified peanut paste donated by UNICEF. "This one," says a nurse, pointing to a boy who scampers past her in oversized shorts, "you can't imagine the state in which he arrived. He couldn't even stand...
...only good one for perhaps 100 miles: no doubt that's one reason why the therapeutic feeding center, as the malnutrition program is called, houses 33 young patients in its one room with eight cots. Inside, a handful of mothers sit and feed the children who are too weak to play, or even...