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...also a global phenomenon. The two most recent albums he has produced, his own Chronic 2001 and Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, have sold 25 million copies worldwide. He's a multiplatinum seller in territories--Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Eastern Europe--that were distant hip-hop outposts a few years ago. Dre's distributor, Interscope Records, receives 4,000 requests a year from labels in such places as India, Turkey, Southeast Asia and Israel that want to add Dre tracks to international hip-hop compilations. Beyond his mere reach, Dre has also brought depth. Pepe Mogt, a composer...
...lost surplus rages in the months ahead, look for both sides to tie the issue to emotionally resonant problems. That's just what Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer did last week at an Arthritis Foundation meeting in Edgewater, Md. Hoyer tried earlier this year to increase federal research on chronic diseases by $350 million, but the White House pared it down to $175 million. He had hoped to restore the cut, but with the surplus gone, he told the seniors, it now seems unlikely. In Missouri, Bush had used his favorite tax-cut line: "It's your money." Hoyer gave...
...news wasn?t good: At the beginning of the year, when the surplus was still abundant, Hoyer had proposed increasing federal research money for chronic diseases like arthritis by $350 million for fiscal year 2002. The Bush administration had cut the program by $175 million, but Hoyer hoped the Appropriations Committee, on which he serves, would use the surplus to restore some of that funding...
...setting of care, the traditional office visit, was created to take care of acute medical problems a century ago," says Dr. Victor Villagra, president of the Disease Management Association of America and a national medical executive at Cigna, which already has more than 600,000 members enrolled in chronic-care programs and has seen a 14% cost savings for diabetic patients who are participants. "That is no longer sufficient," he says. What is, apparently, is having someone there to tell you to take your medicine, or else...
...ships, that I find hidden in a dilapidated museum. As recently as the 1950s, seagoing freighters thronged to East Africa's largest port, off-loading boozy Western seamen and picking up African treasures. Today, as I stroll along the harbor, stevedores off-load shipments slowly - a languor born of chronic underemployment. Still, the Chinese come. "We Chinese can find business opportunities everywhere," grins Cen Haokun, one of three affable brothers who own six restaurants and a shark's fin and sea cucumber exporting business in Mombasa. Farther down the coast, Mohamed Oloya lops dorsal fins off great whites, then sells...