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Alan Greenspan doesn't hurry often-- at least not in front of the cameras. But a few weeks ago the paparazzi caught the cucumber-cool Fed chairman hustling across Constitution Street in Washington, dodging traffic on his way to announce the Fed's first interest-rate cut in three years. Wall Street had seen it coming, and in New York the markets yawned. But Greenspan wasn't done running. He cut rates again on Thursday without waiting for the next Fed meeting, a dramatic move that caught Wall Street off guard. It was almost unprecedented in Greenspan's term...
...White House and congressional negotiators have until midnight Wednesday to resolve their differences before Congress is forced to enact a fourth temporary spending bill. The election-eve Republican caution evident in the budget fight also appears to be weighing on Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde. Hyde told the Washington Post Tuesday that the 15 charges against Clinton should be pared down in order to meet a New Year deadline for the impeachment investigation. "We need to think about narrowing the charges down to the ones that are the most provable," said Hyde. So the question becomes, which Clinton will those...
...rooms for same-day surgery procedures. "We spent hours deciding [on the] best way to involve the residents there, because that's the way medicine is going--up to 70% of surgery is going to be done on an ambulatory basis," says Dr. Robert Anderson, the surgery department's chairman...
...Duke doctors complain that the volume of patients they must see each year has exploded. "Doctors are expected to do patient evaluations in 10 minutes," says a former division chairman at the hospital. "We used to have 30 to 40 minutes." Periodically, harried clinical researchers get profit-and-loss statements that compare the costs of their scientific work with the revenue they generate through patient care...
...profession's roots, when small-town doctors made house calls and were expected to deal with everything from births to a burst appendix. "Our mission is to train residents in the reality of where medicine is practiced, and that's in the outpatient setting," says Dr. Barton Haynes, chairman of the department at Duke...