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Red Ink in the Philippines The article "Going for Broke?," about the problems of unemployment, budget deficits and uncollected taxes in the Philippines, was a timely warning [Aug. 23]. Economists are concerned that the country will face insolvency and economic collapse unless the government reins in the widening public-sector...
For years, routing high-quality video over phone lines was the impossible dream: telecom operators could not feed the copper wires that run into offices and homes fast enough. But the dream has finally come true, thanks to a series of technical advances, most notably a piece of networking gear...
But Sadr's challenge occurs less in the realm of religion than in the realm of politics, where he's riding a wave of anger among the young Shiite urban poor frustrated by their lack of progress, enraged by the occupation, skeptical of the interim government and increasingly disappointed in...
That left everyone bracing to see whether battle would resume. But the pause was an acknowledgment of how much was at risk for all sides. The uprising poses a grave challenge to the seven-week-old interim government, which has yet to establish popular legitimacy or law and order amid...
Prompted both by the rise in health-care costs and the increasing computerization of health-care equipment, doctors are using remote monitoring to track a widening variety of chronic diseases. In March, St. Francis University in Pittsburgh, Pa., partnered with a company called BodyMedia on a study in which rural...