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...shot back, with a distinct note of because-God-says-so finality. Then, remembering his audience, he added, "Of course, if we find a better system, I assure you we'll adopt...
...saga of TPA is a glaring example of what some experts believe is a pervasive problem in American health care: how high-pressure marketing tactics by drug companies combine with the lure of a glamorous high-tech product to persuade doctors to adopt the latest medication, even when it offers no clear advantage. "Doctors are enamored of new technologies," says Dr. Stephen Schondelmeyer, director of the Pharmaceutical Economics Research Institute at Purdue University. "We have this attraction to 'new is better,' even though that is not always true...
...communication." Tucker said keeping the meetings private allows the task force's members to speak their minds. Because an informed community could make a valuable contribution to the committee's work and is likely to be more willing to accept its findings, we urge the board to adopt a more open approach...
Well, The Miracle Game is, and those who adopt ready-made excuses for skipping it probably deserve the nothing they will get in return. Serious fiction affords an access to reality that no number of headlines or newsclips can replace, and fiction that entertains has the added advantage of making such knowledge easy to take. In large measure, Skvorecky manages that old- fashioned task of both instructing and delighting...
...point. While emergency actions by industry and government may ease the crisis, California will have to adopt a better system for allocating water to attract skittish businesses and stabilize its agriculture industry. Analysts across the political spectrum prescribe a market system in which those who have water can easily sell it to those who need it more. Many agree on the root of the recent dislocations: California water is much too cheap. The federal authorities that sell it lose millions of dollars a year by charging farmers far less than it costs them to provide new supplies...