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...Earlier this year, China's Minister of Water Resources announced that 300 million people drink contaminated water on a daily basis. Of these, 190 million consume water so contaminated that it is making them sick. Children are particularly susceptible?more than 30,000 die annually from diarrhea due to unclean water. Wang Bin, director of the Ministry of Health's Women's Health Division, has linked environmental pollution to the 25% increase in birth defects China recorded between...
DIED. K.R. NARAYANAN, 85, India's first "untouchable" President; in New Delhi. A member of the Dalits, the group of Hindus on the lowest rung of the brutal 3,000-year caste system, he used his post to vocally rebuke the "caste-ism" that deemed his people unclean...
Congress last week passed energy legislation costing $14.5 billion in tax credits and spending. Republicans hailed the bill for its free-market principles and support of less polluting energy sources. Democrats called it corporate welfare for the unclean and well-off fossil-fuel industries...
...That cutout edge is really unclean,” I said. “I can still see specks of the background...
...nothing, and the WHO must keep the pressure on. In the past 18 months, 77 new cases have appeared in nine African countries that were previously polio free. Another has just surfaced in Darfur, Sudan, bordering Chad, where refugee camps are a tinderbox of cramped quarters and unclean water. The world, says Aylward, is like a forest, and one polio case can touch off a wildfire that may take years to put out. "We have gone several seasons without [a forest fire]," he says, "and the brush has gotten dryer and dryer. One spark, and it could explode anywhere...