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            Warming, other factors worsened Pakistan floods,                                                                                 HEALTH

            study finds                                                                                                            DOCTOR ON DUTY

                                                                                                                                        Oranjestad
            By SETH BORENSTEIN                                                                     treme  weather  to  look  for   Hospital 7:00 pm / 10:00pm
            AP Science Writer                                                                      the  fingerprints  of  climate   Tel. 527 4000
            Climate    change     likely                                                           change.                            San Nicolas
            juiced rainfall by up to 50%                                                           The  team  looked  at  just
            late last month in two south-                                                          the two provinces over five   Imsan 24 hours
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            ern Pakistan provinces, but                                                            days and saw an increase
            global warming wasn't the                                                              of  up  to  50%  in  the  inten-  Women in Difficulties
            biggest cause of the coun-                                                             sity of rainfall that was likely   PHARMACY ON DUTY
            try's  catastrophic  flooding                                                          due  to  climate  change.    Oranjestad:
            that  has  killed  more  than                                                          They  also  looked  at  the   Central  tel. 585 1965
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            1,500 people, a new scien-                                                             entire  Indus  region  over   San Lucas tel. 584 4833
            tific analysis finds.                                                                  two months and saw up to     Women in Difficulties
            Pakistan's overall vulnerabil-                                                         a  30%  increase  in  rainfall   OTHER
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