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...melodies with words; the tunes will stick with you long after they've left your ears. His latest album, Hold Time, comes out Feb. 17. M. Ward talks to TIME about his songwriting process, living in Portland, and why he's been reading a lot of Wallace Stevens. In case you're wondering, the M stands for Matt...
...what bothers some of Rio's shareholders. One institutional investor, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity, says it's "up to Rio to convince us that this does not transfer key pricing power over a key commodity to a big customer. They need to make that case or I'm not inclined to vote for the deal" when it comes up for approval...
While the case is hardly typical, incidents like it have become all-too frequent as Japan's overburdened health care system grapples with the demands of an aging population. On average, Japanese hospitals deny care to one in six ambulatory call patients, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications]. And as the need for emergency transportation increases throughout the country, the cases only seem to be adding...
...recent years, more attention has been drawn to incidents of ambulance patients dying after being turned away by multiple facilities - in one extreme case, 50 - causing an outcry from the public and politicians and underscoring the fact that medical care in world's second largest economy is severely handicapped by lack of capacity, equipment and expertise...
...case list is not pretty. In August 2007, a pregnant woman was refused admission by nine hospitals in a rural part of western Japan, even after miscarrying in the ambulance. In October 2008, another woman was denied by eight hospitals; she was eventually admitted, but three days after giving birth and undergoing surgery, she died. The following month, an 82-year old woman was refused by five hospitals in her hometown, and died en route to a hospital in another city. In 2007, the percentage of cases that require immediate medical attention within total emergency transportation for the year...