Can Japan handle huge reconstruction costs?
The Japanese government, which has been juggling relief work with a race to avert a meltdown at a nuclear plant, has yet to decide how much it will spend for its biggest rebuilding effort since the post-Second World War reconstruction
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Surgeons to perform first UK face and hand transplant
Patients being assessed for radical double procedure as NHS watchdog warns more evidence of risks is needed Patients are being assessed for Britain’s first face and hand transplant – a procedure that has been performed only once before in the world. That patient died of a heart [...]
WSPA Announces Plan to Assist Thousands of Animals in Japan
BOSTON, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) today committed $150,000 to assist Japan’s Animal Disaster Response Team (ADRT) – a group of local animal groups, including WSPA’s local member society, the Japan Animal Welfare Society (JAWS) – in [...]