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...condition of participating in Medicare - an idea that the AMA and others reject out of hand. Yet, as Blumberg points out, for all the conservative scare stories about government health care, "the people with the most choice are the people who are in the traditional Medicare program ... [with access to] a huge network of providers because of market power." (Read "Obama's Campaign on Health Care: Papering Over the Details...
...cell phones and text messaging have seen interrupted service, Web users in Iran are sending out calls for overseas proxies that can provide them with unmonitored Internet access, the WSJ's Digits blog reports. Meanwhile, Twitter responds to requests not to go through with a routine maintenance shutdown of the microblogging service, and reschedules the procedure to keep the flow of tweets from Iran coming...
...anything surprises me, it's that it took them so long.' KAISER KUO, a Beijing-based blogger, on the Chinese government's blocking access to websites like Twitter two days before the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square...
...option is not open to them. China's long boom has been dependent on its growing integration into the global economy. But so long as Iran maintains its nuclear ambitions, it will always be subject to sanctions from the most developed economies, principally that of the U.S. Without easy access to markets in the outside world, for both imports and exports, Iran cannot hope to develop the sort of economic growth that might - just might - obviate the need for political change by providing economic opportunity and cultural autonomy for those who would otherwise constitute a political opposition. An Iran that...
...shores of Lake Michigan. The city's beaches have more than a century's worth of history. In the 1890s, a group of prominent Chicagoans, including doctors and businessmen, lobbied for the creation of public beaches along Lake Michigan, in part so working-class residents would have access to clean bathing water. In 1913 the beaches became the site of controversy when women's rights activists used them to protest the legally mandated but voluminous "swimming costumes" - one woman stripped down to her bloomers to swim because it was impossible, she said, to swim in the required skirt. A judge...