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  • Worse Than Irrelevant 9 May 2008 15:08 GMT
    ... not to assume the risks from the medical procedure. Or the need for society to ... world, and their own people. Same for North Korea, Saddam's Iraq, Stalin's Soviet Union, and other ... freedom of choice in decisions involving our health. ...

  • North Korea and the Chimera in the Syrian Desert 9 May 2008 13:32 GMT
    ... North Korea was inching its way toward disabling its ... peninsula settlement. The State Department mission to Pyongyang that followed was assumed to be working ... showed what was said to be a North Korean nuclear expert together with a Syrian ...

  • BRIEFING - ASIA HEALTH - MAY 9, 2008 9 May 2008 10:58 GMT
    ... most of South Korea since early April, North Korea is intensifying its measures for prevention ... president of the German Red Cross, visited Pyongyang leading a five-member delegation on April 22-26, ... MYANMAR BANGKOK - Thailand's Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) has sent three tonnes of medicine, ...

  • Center of The Storm 9 May 2008 08:05 GMT
    ... now boasts one of the world's worst health systems, a worrisome situation as diseases fester ... fester in the wake of the storm. Medical experts warn that filthy water, poor sanitation ... seclusion is more akin to that of North Korea, a country that gulps down foreign aid ...

  • Mighty Zeus Goes Free / Hezbollah accusation triggers Beirut violence 9 May 2008 05:55 GMT
    ... WASHINGTON — North Korea handed detailed nuclear weapons records to the ... are told exercise is important to their health, but experts say many of them don't ... and a much lower risk of heart disease complications. But the new research suggests many ...

  • President Obama 9 May 2008 05:16 GMT
    ... Israel; Senator John McCain has proposed threatening North Korea with "extinction.'') But it will be hard ... practically cost-free. And creating a genuine national health-care programme would not cost that much in ... American population has no access to high-quality medical care is an astonishing failure in a ...

  • Myanmar's misery: A strong U.S. response is needed on the cyclone 9 May 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... closed society ranking with the likes of North Korea, Belarus and Equatorial Guinea for the tightness ... nation's already poverty-stricken people for food, water, medical care and shelter. The area hardest hit ...

  • The pros step up 9 May 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... those concerned with sticky, tricky subjects like North Korea's nuclear program, the NATO alliance, relations with ... such as fighting HIV/AIDS and other global-scope diseases, counterterrorism and providing food aid to the ...

  • South Korea says soldier not infected with bird flu 9 May 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... Korea says soldier not infected with bird flu SEOUL, May 9 (Reuters) - A South ... by bacterial pneumonia," the Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said in a news ... that roam the capital. Earlier this week, North Korea said it was stepping up measures to ...

  • Visions of Debasement 9 May 2008 01:56 GMT
    ... LOVE AND HATE Ellen Page and Catherine Keener in ‘An ... desperately to cope as she swigs cough medicine (for her “asthma”), hoards every dollar (kept ... for show. As Ms. Amanpour states, the North Korean capital is arguably entirely for show — ...

  • US expert due to leave NKorea with plutonium documents: US 8 May 2008 18:46 GMT
    ... Korea office who led a delegation to Pyongyang, was due to leave the North Korean capital on Friday, "I know that ... a significant number of documents related to North Korea's plutonium program," he said. "And we'll have ...

  • Myanmar's misery 8 May 2008 17:47 GMT
    ... shelter and placed millions at risk of disease and hunger ( ). In recent years ... Myanmar raises a dilemma seen also in North Korea, which may be on the verge of ... way of sidestepping the junta (or the North Korean regime) in the distribution of aid. Some ...

  • McCain lashes out at '100 Years' ads 8 May 2008 16:52 GMT
    ... McCain lashes out at '100 Years' ads Friday, May ... buffer and as a deterrent from further North Korean aggression. "So it's too bad that they're ... Also Friday, McCain's campaign began running a health care ad in the presidential battleground state ...

  • Bias shown against Bush 8 May 2008 16:18 GMT
    ... still a threat, has been severely damaged, North Korea appears to be somewhat controlled, and Libya ... don't always have secure jobs, annual raises, health care, or guaranteed checks. These "real world" ...

  • U.S. diplomat receives key North Korean nuclear documents 8 May 2008 16:17 GMT
    ... Police arrested seven people during a two-day prositution ... as he pursues two people who stole drugs from a woman leaving a pharmacy. ...

  • China, Japan issue joint press communique 8 May 2008 15:11 GMT
    ... TOKYO, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China and Japan on Wednesday ... with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). In the communique, Japan expressed its readiness ... their bilateral ties in line with the Pyongyang Declaration signed with the DPRK in 2002. ...

  • Michael Egan: Who runs the country? 8 May 2008 14:49 GMT
    ... that is still held only in Cuba, North Korea and, it seems, Venezuela. They forget that ... public investment in areas such as education, health and public transport. These matters, of course, ...

  • Who runs the country? 8 May 2008 14:48 GMT
    ... that is still held only in Cuba, North Korea and, it seems, Venezuela. They forget that ... public investment in areas such as education, health and public transport. These matters, of course, ...

  • BRIEFING - ASIA AGRIBUSINESS - MAY 8, 2008 8 May 2008 14:10 GMT
    ... influence on the domestic market. SUSPECTED BIRD FLU CASE REPORTED IN SOUTH OF SEOUL SEOUL ... said Thursday, raising concerns that the deadly disease is spreading across the nation despite the ... most of South Korea since early April, North Korea is intensifying its measures for prevention of ...

  • More Web-only letters to the editor 8 May 2008 13:19 GMT
    ... in 1997 the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed the cost of smoking, compared it ... smokers were already paying for their own health care with extra for the health care of ... the latter every single day, Iran and North Korea are merely the latest examples. I appreciate ...

  • Korea Asks US to Help Dispel Anxiety Over Imported Beef 8 May 2008 12:15 GMT
    ... concerns about the dangers of mad cow disease. In a meeting in Seoul Thursday, Yu ... Kwon Jong-rak to discuss the impasse with North Korea's nuclear weapons program, as well as ... top Korea expert, began a trip to Pyongyang earlier in the day to finalize North ...

  • Senior citizens barely keep heads above water 8 May 2008 09:12 GMT
    ... Arthritis, heart trouble, cancer, diabetes and other medical problems have stunted the income-making abilities of ... Towle hit the nail on the head ("Health care in U.S. needs honest debate," May ... the U.S. does not communicate specifically with North Korea and Syria. That simply is not true. ...

  • EU Sees Korea as Ideal Partner 8 May 2008 08:15 GMT
    ... water and food scarcity, aggravate poverty, worsen health conditions, and potentially generate increased resource competition. ... and will continue its efforts to convince North Korea that the country's future is best guaranteed ... seminars designed to increase the capacity of North Korean officials to participate in market economy situations. ...

  • Editorial: Myanmar's man-made disaster 8 May 2008 08:14 GMT
    ... great tyrants - despots like Stalin, Mao, North Korea's Kim dynasty - who were willing to ... allow the masses die of hunger and disease rather than yield the least bit of ...

  • "Burma not thankful for U.S. warships offering cyclone aid" 8 May 2008 04:47 GMT
    ... emergency cyclone relief, it probably sounded like North Korea wanting to send its warships and troops ... Rotting corpses floated in swollen rivers, amid disease-carrying mosquitoes and angry scenes in some places ... the delta remained bloodied and ill without medical care and little food. --- Richard S ...


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