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Ebocha, Nigeria - Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb. An ink spot certified that he had been immunized against polio and measles, thanks to a vaccination drive supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But polio is not the only threat Justice faces. Almost since birth, he has had respiratory trouble. His neighbors call it "the cough." People blame fumes and soot spewing from flames that tower 300 feet into the air over a nearby oil plant. It is owned by the Italian petroleum giant Eni, whose investors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation....

Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to amaze those who thought Californians were turning their governorship over to a muscle-bound airhead when they elected him last October. The wealthy Austrian-born actor has spent the last six-and-a-half months demonstrating that the state's financial problems, though huge, were not impossible to solve; they just required a governor tough enough to insist on solving them. Within days of being sworn in, Schwarzenegger had kept his campaign pledge to reverse $4 billion in car tax increases imposed by the spendthrift Democrat-controlled legislature. Just as quickly, he rescinded the drivers' licenses the Democrats had given to illegal immigrants...