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...plan's technical name as well as a lyrical reference to the parting of the Red Sea, calls for 78 hollow sea gates--each up to 16 ft. thick, 65 ft. wide and 90 ft. long--to be hinged to foundations, or caissons, in the seabed and to lie flat there. The gates would usually be filled with water, but when tides rise to a height of 43 in. or more, compressed air would pump the water out. The free end of the gates would then float upward, breaking the surface after about 30 minutes and sealing off the inlets...
...line, threatening to revoke the licenses of doctors and nurses who refuse to return to the front?an approach that has done little to calm fears among hospital workers. Although only a small percentage have walked out, those that remain have ample reason to be scared, says Tseng Jean-lie, chairman of the National Union of Nurses Association. "In some of the hospitals, medical staff are supplied with only two masks a week," says Tseng. "They should be getting a new one every four hours. It's not good enough." Not good enough for Taiwanese, or for the American Centers...
...reduce the number of people who work in these professions but don't declare their income to the taxman. So far, so good. But critics think it's strange - and possibly futile - to single out the Meisterbrief when the real causes of the country's economic stagnation lie elsewhere. "We have no lack of potentially self-employed persons," argues Dieter Philipp, president of the National Federation of German Skilled Crafts and Trade. "On the contrary, we have a reserve of 130,000 master craftsmen who would be willing to strike out on their own if the economic situation made...
...intrepid companies like Chinaveg are doing with farming what's already been done in manufacturing: leveraging China's cheap labor and growing domestic market to build a low-cost export operation. The best potential profits lie outside China, especially in Japan, which imports more than $3 billion in agricultural products annually, and in South Korea, which will ease its import restrictions in 2004. China already ranks as Japan's No. 1 source of imported fresh vegetables (the U.S. ranks second) and is No. 2 in processed fruits and vegetables (after...
...help Taiwan cope with SARS?a move that arguably kept the island's medical workers dangerously in the dark on the best methods of disease containment. "China has told the world that they are taking care of us," says Taiwan's Premier Yu Shyi-kun. "It's a shameless lie...