Sep
20
2009
Incoming Disease & No-Guarantees
- Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said there was no guarantee Israel would not launch a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
- How the United States should build a high speed rail network.
- The United States and Europe face a new health threat from a mosquito-born disease far more unpleasant than the West Nile virus that swept into North America a decade ago.
- When the government killed all the pigs in Egypt this spring — in what public health experts said was a misguided attempt to combat swine flu — it was warned the city would be overwhelmed with trash. Now it is.
- As calls mount for soda to be taxed because of its link to the nation’s obesity epidemic, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent tried this week to tar the tax as socialist, taking a page from the Republicans single-word playbook against health care reform, bailouts, and even US President Barack Obama’s back-to-school speeches.
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