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...able to offer lower premiums than those now offered to individuals and small businesses. In addition, a public insurance plan would not have to cover overhead for marketing or profit margins, part of the reason it would have substantially lower administrative costs. (By some estimates, Medicare's administrative costs account for less than 5% of total costs, compared with up to 20% for private insurers...
...much building has happened since the mid-1990s that the West Bank resembles a Jackson Pollock drip painting of Jewish and Arab lands, connected and disconnected by bypass roads and cement blocks. The old Green Line border, now morphing into a wall, has literally doubled in size to account for myriad new thrusts into, twists around and enclosures of Arab lands. (See a video about Israel's lonesome doves...
...able-bodied men leave to work in the more prosperous cities of Russia and oil-rich Kazakhstan - at least a tenth of the Tajik population of 7 million is migrant labor. Remittances sent home comprise some 40% of the country's total GDP, according to UN figures, and account for only slightly less in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Now, with the collapse of the Russian economy and the drying up of its construction boom, tens of thousands are returning to rugged homelands that offer few opportunities and to families that depended on their labor abroad. Observers in Tajikistan tell of depressed...
Murray, Daniel James •arrest of after closing out bank account and announcing to teller, "We are on a mission to kill the President of the United States...
...percent that had been anticipated by administrators there, according to the Cornell Daily Sun.Harvard's Program was implemented in two waves: first for FAS, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and then for the remainder of the University's units. While FAS and HMS account for the largest fractions of the University's endowment, Galvin said the two-phase design was purely for administrative reasons. In each wave, eligible staff--participants in Harvard's Defined Benefit Plan aged 55 and over with at least 10 years of service--were given a 45-day consideration period during which...