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...Mark my words," Senator Max Baucus, one of the Democratic drafters of the legislation, said last week of the historic Medicare-reform bill, "seniors will see that the benefits of this bill are extraordinary." Perhaps, but here are six issues that could generate debate when the elderly begin living under the plan...
American Girl's success as both a direct marketer and an experiential retailer may be a harbinger of things to come. Mattel, the world's largest toymaker, may begin to follow a similar business model with other brands it owns, relying more on direct-to-consumer marketing to avoid the retail price-slashing wars that have rocked the industry, says Oppenheimer analyst Linda Bolton Weiser. Mattel's Fisher-Price division is already sending out its own catalog. Can Hot Wheels bumper-car birthday parties be far behind...
...British Airways and Air France begin supersonic passenger flights...
...inroads into the wireless industry. For now, most hospitals ban cell-phone use in patient areas because the phones can produce electromagnetic radiation that interferes with hospital monitors. That has forced patients and nurses to rely on archaic paging systems. Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Ill., recently decided to begin using a voice-over-IP-enabled device from Symbol Technologies of Holtsville, N.Y., on wireless networks in its three hospitals. The device, which combines PDA functions with voice, offers several benefits: it doesn't suffer from interference, as cell phones do; it lets patients connect directly to the nurse assigned...
...state. As the cease-fire has been signed only by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the head of the LTTE, it is invalid under Sri Lanka's constitution. The President said she decided to stand by it because of her commitment to peace and decided to let the negotiations begin and continue. You spoke of "the unexpected scale of [the Prime Minister's] reception" on his return to the country from an overseas trip. Impartiality would demand that you also mention the Oct. 24 mass rally, attended by about 500,000 people in support of the President's party, which...