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Semmelweis doctors went to Capitol Hill in May to lobby Congress to codify such principles. But they haven't managed to get even a hearing on the topic. Most reform advocates say it would be better for doctors to adopt new standards on their own. "Doctors already feel beleaguered" by regulation, says Wachter. More rules imposed by outsiders would be seen as "intrusion...
...done with the ceremonial self-flagellation ... we will settle back to a comfortable regime of elastic rules and mediated processes. It is our culture?and our fate." Can't a culture develop and change for the better? I believe that as we Filipinos continue to learn progressive ideas, adopt modern ways, pursue quality education and experience globalization, we shall arrive sooner or later at a brighter tomorrow. It may take time, disciplined effort and enlightened leadership, but we will grow and mature beyond the "fate" to which Magno has consigned us. Antonio A. Agustin Manila...
...video, I.R.A. veteran Seanna Walsh - who spent 21 years in prison for munitions offenses - stood before an Irish flag to read a statement formally ending the organization's 36-year armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland. By ordering its members to "dump arms" and adopt "exclusively peaceful means," the I.R.A. leadership signaled that their decades-long quest for Irish unity now rests in the hands of their political counterparts in Sinn Fein. The statement prompted a sudden surge forward in the peace process. The British army began demolishing some of its remaining installations, and the I.R.A. said...
...several times. We are spending time with Chinese unions so they won't adopt a U.S. model with the attitude of "I've got mine, and the devil take the hindmost." The idea that the rich get richer and somehow wealth is going to trickle down is a bankrupt economic and moral theory...
...still growing at close to a 30% annual rate. China's boom would quickly turn into a bust if both slowed sharply. A small upward adjustment of the currency should reinforce the modest slowing of Chinese exports that was already in the cards. China's leadership will most likely adopt a wait-and-see stance as far as further currency moves are concerned. If GDP keeps surging at its current 9.5% rate, policymakers will probably push harder on the currency-revaluation lever?using slowing exports as the cushion to engineer a soft landing...