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...Reports like the Milliman Index, however, point up the just as troubling relation between high health-care costs and low-wage demographics like Miami's. Cities and regions with higher income and education rates tend to have access to more efficient health-care plans. In turn, they bear health-care costs that, while they might seem high in places like New York City (which is second behind Miami in the Milliman Index), are usually more in line with what residents can afford and require relatively less out-of-pocket contributions. Locales like Miami, by contrast, often offer residents "less access...
...many shares sank into single digits. In recent weeks, however, the group has reversed course, rallying strongly, and even led the market to a robust gain on Monday, with the Dow rising 235 points. So is this the sign of a true financial-stock recovery, or a seductive bear trap? TIME contributing editor John Curran caught up with Oppenheimer & Co. chief investment strategist Brian Belski, who was in Tel Aviv on Monday, to get his view on banks...
...Israel is upping the ante. In the lead-up to Netanyahu's Washington visit, Israeli newspapers have printed stories about the air force carrying out dry runs for an Iranian raid and antimissile crews having practice drills. If nothing else, this drum-banging may help Obama bring pressure to bear on Iran. Will Israelis then stop worrying? Nope. If you lived where they do, you'd worry...
Finally, there is Benedict's relationship to Vatican II's bedrock statement on the Jews, Nostra Aetate. Published in 1965, it said that Christianity "received the revelation of the Old Testament through" them, that they bear no collective or ongoing guilt for the death of Christ and that anti-Semitism is wrong--all teachings the Pope undoubtedly affirms. It also pointedly quotes St. Paul's New Testament preaching that God never retracted covenants he made with the Jews before the birth of Jesus. This contradicts the ancient church claim that Christ replaced (or "superseded") the Jews' divine connection--a position...
...strong student sentiment over the past few weeks suggests that many students feel staff would disproportionately bear the brunt of budget cuts in the form of layoffs, while University management remains relatively untouched...