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...require the government to lay out $1.2 billion a year - and to put in place the infrastructure to ensure the proper diagnosis and usage and create a healthy environment to protect those patients from opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis would cost billions more. South Africa may be Africa's wealthiest nation, but its entire national budget is only $32 billion, and the government says it simply can't afford to make the investment in anti-retrovirals necessary to keep its HIV population alive...
...have gained even more. Charging a fee—even a nominal one—to access the information would significantly decrease the number of people who would use it, and the loss would not be compensated by enough revenue to be significant to the world’s wealthiest university. We therefore urge the University to fulfill the promise of the digital age and make all course-related information freely available...
...scaling down their tastes, most Americans are making a virtue out of necessity. Contrary to perceptions, the past decade was an era of downward mobility for the majority of U.S. families, who kept up their spending by borrowing and relying on two incomes. Only the wealthiest 20% of Americans significantly increased their real income during the Reagan era, and the poor slipped further behind. After adjustment for inflation, the national standard of living has actually fallen since 1973; the real average hourly pay for U.S. workers has gone from $8.55 then to $7.54 today. Says Barry Bosworth, an economist...
...World War II, the U.S. demonstrated benevolence and wisdom by spending billions of dollars to help rebuild Germany, much of the rest of war-torn Europe and Japan. Today it is unconscionable that the world's wealthiest and most powerful nation has failed to respond to the AIDS crisis with all the economic and technological assets it can muster [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 12]. For the world's only superpower to do anything less in the face of this horrific epidemic's escalating death toll would be regarded by all as a crime of negligence. RICHARD T. NOTKIN Helena, Mont...
...Bush's recent tax cut speech. Well, no one can say the middle class didn't see it coming. But if this $1.6 trillion behemoth actually crashes to earth, the effect on the middle class will be catastrophic. With 40 percent of the reductions being absorbed by the wealthiest one percent of American families and with inequality on the rise since the 70s, the tax cut alone may reduce the middle class to memory...