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...husband is also stationed in an engineering unit. Cuevas goes home from work for 2 1/2 hours at midday to nurse her daughter. But when Isabella becomes hungry earlier than usual, she cries until her mother, alerted by the baby sitter, rushes home to feed her. Cuevas has begun feeding her baby solid food, but Isabella obviously still needs to suckle. "When I have duty or fly at night," Cuevas told her commander, "the baby cries for hours." Distraught over such episodes, Cuevas recently paid a colleague $50 to take her place on a 24-hour duty shift...
Papers dealing with the project had begun to be declassified after the requisite 50 years, and Singer was fascinated by the possibility of digging into such secret government files. At least 130 members of his family were killed by the German machine in a single day. "They can't bring those people back," he says, "but they can at least give back to my mother, in her 80s, her wealth, her history and her standing." Singer asked his boss at the World Jewish Congress in New York for permission to begin an investigation of the Swiss accounts...
MOSCOW: Faced with the likelihood of NATO expansion, Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov spent a Friday meeting with Madeleine Albright trying to win as many concessions as possible before giving in. Russia has begun to weaken, but still remains officially opposed to NATO's eastward move. "We are still negatively disposed," Primakov said after the meeting. But, in a significant departure from earlier claims, he added that Russia now wants only "a voice, not a veto" in the NATO alliance. Primakov has taken a hard line toward NATO expansion ever since taking over Andrei Kozyrev, whom Russian critics had accused...
...YORK: The federal government, which pays farmers for crops they don?t grow, now proposes to pay hospitals for doctors they don?t train. In a strategy applauded by medical economists, the Medicare program has begun a pilot project aimed at reducing the number of new doctors training in teaching hospitals, on the theory that producing fewer specialists means generating fewer unnecessary medical tests, treatments and hospitalizations. Under the program, New York teaching hospitals, which train more doctors than any other city (15 percent of new residents) will earn $400 million in training subsidies during the next six years...
...YORK: The federal government, which pays farmers for crops they don?t grow, now proposes to pay hospitals for doctors they don?t train. In a strategy applauded by medical economists, the Medicare program has begun a pilot project aimed at reducing the number of new doctors training in teaching hospitals, on the theory that producing fewer specialists means generating fewer unnecessary medical tests, treatments and hospitalizations. Under the program, New York teaching hospitals, which train more doctors than any other city (15 percent of new residents) will earn $400 million in training subsidies during the next six years...