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Reports from the desert
by Javier ·

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desert report
The accounting of the pharmaceutical industry can not keep up, adding orders for antiviral and calculating the benefits in their coffers will finally called the Influenza A. And governments are trying to reassure the public by publishing the quantities of drugs they cherish in their stores. Roche Laboratories need not make any investment in advertising to sell massively famous Tamiflu, as noted by the world press as the main action against the dreaded disease, while speculating about hypothetical scenarios virus mutations drawing frightening invite a massive ‘purchase preventive’ magic dust against the pandemic.
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After one of the strongest earthquake on record, the Chilean infrastructure held up quite well, but the cost of repairing damage will total $ 1,200 million, said on Monday the Minister of Public Works in Chile, Sergio Bitar .
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37% of calls to the line ‘Do not streets’ is where women are abused at home.
Physical, psychological and sexual violence remains a scourge for
women of the Cauca Valley. This was revealed by calls received during the
2009 in line streets Do not care, which is run by the
Ministry of Gender Equality and the Department.
According to the study, a total of 119 calls received during the past year,
37.8% are isolated cases of domestic violence, in which
are involved partners and former partners and sometimes their own children
who assault their mothers.
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The U.S. government closed four banks in the states of Maryland, Illinois, Florida and Utah, bringing to 26 the number of institutions closed due to insolvency so far this year.
The decision puts more pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC by its English acronym), which guarantees bank deposits up to $ 250,000, and must get rid of a growing mountain of depreciated assets.
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The Wall Street Journal
Icelanders flatly rejected a deal to return to the UK and Holland 3,900 million (U.S. $ 5,300 million) lost in the collapse of an Internet bank in the country, complicating the efforts of the island to access international financing needed to normalize relations with the rest of the country.
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