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...certain medications dispensed by hospitals and doctors. Government auditors have long singled out Medicare for paying inflated prices compared with what HMOs and retail pharmacy chains pay for the same drugs. An HHS inspector general's report in 2001 said Medicare reimbursements for two dozen drugs "exceeded actual wholesale prices by $761 million a year...
...case for war. The White House announced Monday that a commission of inquiry will be appointed to probe the apparent failures of prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq, and would likely report back some time next year. Rather than face mounting pressure to explain the discrepancy between Iraq's actual capability and the "grave and gathering danger" warned of by President Bush and his aides, the White House has acted preemptively to quarantine the WMD issue for the election season. Instead of asking the electorate to wait for the weapons inspectors to complete their work, the electorate will now be asked...
...credibility: "There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are," Cheney told a polite but skeptical audience of power brokers at Davos. "At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve...
...face to put to bed.” And for those women not ready to raise a child, there are countless anxious families waiting for a child to adopt—according to the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth there are an estimated 3.3 adoption seekers for every actual adoption...
...this point, we should make clear that the BDSM these researchers study is consensual. No one in the fledgling BDSM movement argues in favor of actual slavery or rape (though eroticized simulations of such crimes are common). Among the BDSM clubs and support groups, all the reputable ones preach the BDSM mantra: safe, sane and consensual. "Like every other subculture, we have a fringe, an element that doesn't follow the rules," says Susan Wright of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, a BDSM advocacy group formed in 1997 that claims 34 member organizations representing 10,000 people. "But every...