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...Medicaid has become the latest sticking-point issue in health reform because of the daunting challenge of how to cover those most likely to find themselves without health coverage. Low-income adults - those who earn under 200% of poverty, or $33,200 for a family of four - account for about half the uninsured in this country. Under the current rules, many of them are not eligible for Medicaid, which was established alongside Social Security in 1965 to cover low-income children, their parents, the poor elderly, the disabled and those in need of nursing-home care. (Read "Cost, Not Coverage...
...solutions but waging war in Iraq. Iran's government (but not all its people) rejects cultural influences from Western creative industries, which to the authorities reek of moral corruption. The government considers proposed solutions to problems involving Iran to be unremittingly Western, and ones that fail to take genuine account of its interests or rights...
That is, if they have enough resources to handle all the students. Chronically cash-starved, two-year schools pull in an average of just 30% of the federal funding per student allocated to state universities - though they educate nearly the same number of undergraduates. (Even after you account for the academic research that goes on at four-year schools, experts say community colleges still get shafted.) Two-year schools have been growing faster than four-year institutions, with the number of students they educate increasing more than sevenfold since 1963, compared with a near tripling at four-year schools...
...Turkey's new non-smoking law makes it only the second developing country after Uruguay to institute a comprehensive ban. That is significant - according to the World Health Organization, developing nations will account for 80% of the world's tobacco-related deaths over the next decade, as smoking rates in developed countries fall and tobacco companies step up their presence in other markets to compensate. "People in the region are watching Turkey closely," says Ratte, who is due to take her anti-smoking campaign to Egypt next. "It could become a regional role model, like Ireland was for Europe...
...keep risking their lives to confront the regime in street protests. Surprisingly large crowds of opposition supporters gathered outside Tehran University despite the heavy security presence Friday. Plainclothes officers harassed opposition presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who nevertheless managed to make it into the prayer hall, according to an account posted on an opposition news website by Karroubi's son. Eyewitnesses say that government supporters shouting "Death to America" were met by opposition protesters chanting "Death to Russia" and "Death to China" - two countries that have recognized Ahmadinejad's re-election. Before the speech, protesters called out to Rafsanjani using...