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TIME's annual health issue takes a close look at the prevention philosophy at work--and we focus on the Cleveland Clinic. Its prevention strategy, as staff writer Alice Park explains, is not just for the patients but for its employees as well. The 40,000 people who work at the clinic and its 10 affiliated hospitals are offered diet and cooking classes, exercise instruction and smoking-cessation programs, all free of charge. This results not only in healthier employees but also in lower health-care costs and fewer days lost to sickness. What works for the Cleveland Clinic could...
...From a public relations perspective, though, Warren has been a success. She has taken to the spotlight like a seal to water and has smoothly made the cable-TV rounds to chide the close-knit club that determined financial policy in the past. She argues that now, finally, taxpayers "have a seat at the table." If this sounds like advocacy, that might be exactly what Democratic Party bosses had in mind when they selected her. Since a special inspector general was also appointed to investigate Treasury's actions, Warren's oversight panel was left with little actual power...
President Obama, who is trying to close Gitmo, has said different fates await the more than 200 prisoners still held there. Some can be sent back to their homelands, some will be tried in reformed military commissions, and some will be transferred to third countries. The Pacific archipelago of Palau may take 17 Chinese Muslims who've been at Gitmo for years. Others, Obama has hinted, will never face trial because there isn't a court in the land that would allow evidence obtained through torture...
...Obama aims to close Gitmo within a year, more prisoners may be arriving Stateside to face trial. Ghailani, who could face execution if found guilty, has the distinction of going first...
...said on June 18. "We do have some concerns, if they were to launch a missile to the west in the direction of Hawaii," he added. "We are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect Americans and American territory." If a North Korean shot somehow draws close, Marine General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on June 16 that he felt "very comfortable," predicting that existing U.S. missile defenses have a 90% chance of destroying it in flight...