
Advertisement starts (Tiscali: Tue, 18 Dec) "We might encounter the heaviest burden, especially after 2030, when the demographic dividend is set to end," the China Daily quoted Yan Qingchun, deputy director of the National Committee on Ageing, as saying.
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Budget bill reverses Bush cuts (Albuquerque Tribune: Mon, 17 Dec) Lawmakers have unveiled a $500 billion-plus catchall spending bill, reluctantly sticking within President Bush's budget but still protecting politically sensitive domestic programs from White House cuts.
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New cancer tool shows promise in Scottsdale (East Valley Tribune: Mon, 17 Dec) Ray Simms has prostate cancer, but he fully expects to live at least another 20 years free of the disease. The 78-year-old resident of Tyrone, N.M., is undergoing radiation treatment at the Arizona Cancer Institute in Scottsdale. He's confident the treatment will remove all of the cancer from his prostate, and that he'll know for sure that it's gone.
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