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...schemes around the world, and the FTA negotiations with Australia are a convenient vehicle for this. Any significant change to Australian pharmaceutical costs - to consumers or taxpayers - would be a big problem for the government. In an election year, Howard and Vaile, who is leader-in-waiting of the rural-based National Party, can't afford - and won't settle for - anything less than substantially greater access to the U.S. for Australian farmers. It's not yet clear whether walking away from an inferior deal would cause the government political harm...
...issues," or do you treat them like all other voters? The answer is both--especially in the South, where black voters can be more conservative on social policy. "The only important color in this country anymore is green," says Gilda Cobb-Hunter, a social worker and state representative from rural Orangeburg, S.C. "Black people have the same worries that white people do: Will I have a job, will my kids go to a decent school, and can I afford to get sick?" But in South Carolina, where the median income for blacks is $14,750--about half that of whites...
...Entertainment Tonight but with more screaming fans. Granted, nobody asked for either one, and On-Air was shaky in its first week. Seacrest may be better suited to the more controlled Idol than to unpredictable live variety. When Richie brought a pair of goats with her to plug her rural reality show, one of the beasts did what well-fed goats do, all over the stage. Another talk host might have improvised a zinger out of the barnyard blooper; Seacrest just seemed icked...
...Vietnam, where already more than 1 million birds have died from the virus, and at least another 800,000 have been slaughtered as a precaution, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) officials were reassuring the public as late as Jan. 7 that "there has been no sign the disease will affect human health"?even though 12 patients had already turned up at the National Institute of Pediatrics with an "unusual" virus, according to hospital director Dr. Nguyen Thanh Liem. Even more worrying, it now appears that there were mass chicken die-offs in Vinh Phuc province in northern Vietnam...
...study found the West to be the most segregated area for Latinos, but Orfield contended that New York is now the epicenter for both Latino and black segregation. He also said that in general rural communities are more integrated than suburban and metropolitan areas...