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...Taiwan? Certainly Japan and Taiwan are going to be beneficiaries because, in the case of Japan, they are a huge exporter of high-performance capital goods, very complex machinery and equipment like that, that most other countries can't produce themselves. Taiwan is a more component supplier of electronics. But the Taiwan bulls would argue that Taiwan is going to become the newest province of China; there is going to be a huge flow of real estate investment and industrial investment by mainland Chinese into Taiwan. I have trouble believing that...
...that Germany suffered in the first quarter of 2009 - its fourth straight negative quarter. France's identical 0.3% advance contrasts its 2008 first-quarter shrinkage of 1.3%. Both economies benefited from better than expected consumer spending and higher exports led primarily by car sales - and in France's case, airplanes as well. (See pictures of Paris expanding...
...high court announced that it had agreed to hear arguments in Baze v. Rees to determine whether Kentucky's use of lethal injections (the same method Texas uses) violated constitutional proscriptions against cruel and unusual punishment. Richard's attorneys with the Texas Defender Service hoped to use the Baze case to win a delay, but they would have to go through the CCA in Austin first before approaching the Supreme Court for a stay and, as the execution was looming, they would have to act quickly. Frantically trying to assemble their paperwork - at the time, the CCA did not permit...
...care. It was coded on the bill as Level 5 - the highest, what you would think would be charged for, say, shooting victims or massive coronary patients. While I was admittedly in epic pain during those few hours when the stone drilled its way from kidney to bladder, my case was nowhere near life-threatening. Again, I was simply told, "The doctor determined your care was of the nature reflected by the level that's on the bill...
...fair, the E.R. care level often has less to do with the severity of the case than with the diagnostic work required of the physician. Still, $3,000 for diagnosing a kidney stone "is unfortunately all too typical in Miami," says one South Florida healthcare expert - a big reason the average annual private healthcare provider costs for a family of four in the city is a remarkable...