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...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done...
...inevitably, the furious immigration debate of last spring, which for a moment was about reforming a system everyone agrees is broken, has been boiled down to the issue of "border security." Most Republicans have concluded that a hard-line approach focused on tightening the U.S.-Mexico border is the best political play this season. Neither the broad package of reforms negotiated by the Senate, which would have produced a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for the 12 million illegal immigrants now in the country, nor the more limited program envisioned by House conservative leader Mike Pence...
...detained by security officials, who had traveled hundreds of miles from Linyi to Beijing. For the next six months, he was kept under virtual house arrest. Despite the harassment, which included several beatings, he remained hopeful: the State Family Planning Commission in Beijing admitted publicly that Linyi officials had broken the law. Chen kept in contact with foreign journalists through cell phones that friends and family smuggled in for him. Last September I wrote a story for TIME about forced sterilizations in Linyi. The magazine subsequently named Chen to its annual list of the world's 100 most influential people...
...might as well have busted out some French or broken into song. George Bush was putting the country on the couch. Republicans and Democrats alike flashed back to Jimmy Carter's assertion in July 1979 that the country was suffering "a crisis of confidence." Only political junkies know that Carter never actually used the word malaise. And only the most astute historian remembers that he got an initial bounce in the polls. In the long run, though, the speech was judged a disaster and set the stage for Ronald Reagan to use sunny optimism to run Carter out of town...
...buildings and entire villages within three years; it has sent civil-affairs teams wearing hats that read JIHAD FOR RECONSTRUCTION. The group's offensive is most evident in ruined towns like Srifa, south of the Litani River, where piles of rubble are all that mark where houses once stood. Broken guardrails, shattered glass and pulverized concrete make it difficult even to walk around. Thirty-two people, mostly Hizballah fighters, died in the town, but within a day of the cease-fire with Israel, the militants turned into recovery workers, bringing in bulldozers and earth-moving equipment to dig through...