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...Barbara Lane, 53, and suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Haven House, a 20-bed residential hospice in North Atlanta, is living up to its name. ALS invariably kills, but the timing is hard to predict, which runs afoul of the hospice requirement that a patient certifiably have no more than six months to live. Coverage can be extended only if deterioration is continuous or if death is predictable within subsequent six-month periods. Doctors determined that they could not certify Lane, after she had spent a year in her original hospice, a third time, but Haven House executive director Metta...
...shows no sign of braking; scooters are the vehicular equivalent of mosquitoes. They're everywhere: on the streets, running afoul of moving cars; on the sidewalks, running into pedestrians' legs; in parking lots, distracting drivers trying to park; and even taking up valuable bike space on stands outside office buildings. Not to be outdone by their diminutive counterparts, so-called grown-ups are snapping up the toys at a brisk pace as well, sending manufacturers into cash-induced raptures...
...best clients remains intact. In some cases the code will get even more indecipherable. And while the field levels, there may be less information overall as companies freak out over what they can say. Some 42% of companies polled say they will reduce communications to avoid running afoul of the new rule, reports the National Investor Relations Institute...
...Wasch, president of Europe's Software & Information Industry Association, called the directive "simply unenforceable." Guido de Wit, a VAT tax expert with a Brussels law firm, notes that the commission intends to use credit-card billing addresses in chasing tax revenues. That, he observes, is likely to run afoul of credit-card companies that want no part in releasing information for tax purposes. Nor is it at all clear how European tax authorities could audit the flow of international e-commerce or sanction those that don't levy...
...Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark says he is reviewing prominent law school professor Arthur R. Miller's taped lectures for web-based Concord University School of Law in June, afraid that Miller might be running afoul of University rules for faculty...