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Which do you like better, plane food or cafeteria food? I vote cafeteria. Airplanes only serve peanuts, crackers and a drink for free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Journalist Damon Weaver | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...think Obama is doing so far as President? I think he's making the economy better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Journalist Damon Weaver | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...lots of ways to try to enhance the economic security of working Americans. You do health care first because the status quo is unsustainable. The most pressing health-care crisis is that we're spending way more than any other country, and we're getting results that are no better and sometimes worse. And the good news, for reformers at least, is that numerous studies have shown that the system is riddled with wasteful and unnecessary treatment, which means there's plenty of fat to cut; Orszag has suggested that costs could be reduced by as much as 30% without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Reform Without Cost-Cutting Isn't Worth It | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...influential health lobbies, so it's understandable that he hasn't dwelled on it. Providers like the Mayo Clinic have demonstrated the promise of high-quality, low-cost care, and mounds of research as well as books like Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated have documented Orszag's less-would-be-better thesis. But to laymen it can still sound like typically empty government promises to weed out waste, fraud and abuse. And the most prominent town-hall angle of attack against Obamacare has been its alleged scheme to let government bureaucrats pull the plug on Grandma, refuse to treat handicapped children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Reform Without Cost-Cutting Isn't Worth It | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...earth - has a handful of bookshops for foreigners. Less surprisingly, most of the books have been written by either Kim Il Sung, the Great Leader and founder of North Korea, or his son the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Most are stern instruction manuals on how to be a better communist. There are also a number of guides and glossy souvenir books, more than enough for a place than receives less foreign visitors in a year than the Louvre does in an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey to North Korea, Part I: Majesty and the Mustache | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

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