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...boyish-looking man of just 24 or 25 (he wasn't quite sure), allowed a smile to spread across his face for a moment. His comrades-in-arms against the government of India and the companies that drive its booming economy had struck again. That, he said, should answer my question about whether the Maoist insurgents went easy on some mining companies in the area so as to force them to pay protection money and bribes instead. "If the public wants to teach a lesson to Essar, then we'll teach them a lesson," said Deva...
...society - they live beyond it, in a void that successive governments in New Delhi have neglected for decades. In this part of the country, far removed from the famed call centers of modern India, there are no roads, no power, no running water, no telephones and no officials to answer pleas for help...
...what was I supposed to do with this patient? How could I get her to go to my other hospital, so much farther away? And how am I supposed to take care of all the others? There is no answer yet - we're waiting on negotiations between the insurer and the hospital. I twisted some arms for Mattie, and got the insurance company to pay the old rate for her treatment; I'll hopefully get her in soon, but this won't work for every case after hers...
...group met with Maine Senator Susan M. Collins, a moderate Republican, at a Memorial Day parade on Sunday. Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Harvard Democrats, said the senator refused to answer questions about co-sponsoring a bill that would end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell...
Ogden wouldn't speculate as to why national childhood overweight trends appear to have stalled. It could be that kids have hit the fat ceiling - they've gotten as heavy as they're ever going to get. Or, perhaps the most obvious answer is the nationwide effort to combat obesity by getting kids - and parents - to eat better and exercise more. From Arkansas, where state officials have begun sending annual childhood health reports to parents, to Massachusetts, where the town of Somerville launched a community-wide intervention to improve the diet and fitness of children, state and local governments have...