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...pilot program will connect 20 million patient records in all 50 states and will become the blueprint for a national surveillance system if successful, according to a CDC press release...
...heart of the Bush Doctrine is the idea that, as the new blueprint states, "We cannot let our enemies strike first." Bush makes it clear that the billions of dollars we have spent on armies, navies and aircraft can't protect us anymore. Terrorists and rogue states have learned to attack our weak spots with truck bombs, boat bombs and airliners. Next, he predicts, they will use weapons of mass destruction on us and perhaps on our friends and allies. For all those reasons, a new kind of deterrence is needed. We can no longer rely entirely on "our reactive...
...President Bush continues to push back against Senate versions of HSD legislation because none offer him the ability to hire and fire 170,000 departmental employees at will. He insists this is the only way for efficient and proactive governance - hinting broadly that any detour from this blueprint amounts to a tacit surrender to terrorism. Meanwhile, Democrats - and representatives for the roughly 600,000 civilian Defense Department employees who currently work under existing union labor rules, and whose status could be affected by any changes leveled at new HSD staff - are fighting him tooth and nail...
...rebuilding its decimated manufacturing sector. The country needs to export goods if it is to earn hard currency to pay for the food and fertilizer it cannot produce itself. Cutting off subsidies to deadbeat factories is just a first step, and there is no evidence the government has a blueprint for moving further. "They aren't scrapping the socialist system," says Koh Hyun Wook, an expert on North Korea at Kyungnam University near Pusan. "These are makeshift moves to overcome the current economic crisis...
...lack of trying, though. Javier Solana, the E.U.'s High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, has made several attempts to broker a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians - to no avail. And in April German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer put forward proposals that could serve as a blueprint for fresh talks. Fischer's plan calls for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to appoint a caretaker prime minister until January, when newly elected officials would carry out the reforms necessary for the establishment of a Palestinian state by the end of next year. That state would then complete negotiations with...