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That's the way Congress runs it. They rig it, which is why 44 million people have no health insurance, why tens of millions who do have insurance don't have a clue what it covers until it's too late, and why you pay more for your prescription drugs than do people anywhere else in the industrialized world (see following story). Worst of all, the biggest losers in the health-care lottery are middle-income folks and the working poor, who are least able to afford to pay for medical services. In fact, if you are uninsured...
...clue might be simple geography. Every afflicted country or territory is contiguous, either by land or sea, with China. The mainland was the source of Hong Kong's previous outbreaks, and Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department officials in the city sometimes turn back containers of chickens and ducks that have tested positive for antibodies to avian flu. China refuses to officially acknowledge that it has an H5N1 problem. But as recently as last March, according to a document obtained by TIME, China's Ministry of Health was requesting from the WHO H5N1 reagents, which are used to test for presence...
...things are actually quite hard to fix because the systems behind them are intricate, complicated and created by humans. New Yorkers and the inhabitants of a whole swath of North America spent a delirious, humid night in the complete dark in August, and for hours no one had a clue why the power grid had crashed or how on earth to fix it. The glitch that guaranteed that the space shuttle Columbia would disintegrate on re-entry occurred at lift-off, and none of the rocket scientists at NASA saw it coming. A sizable proportion of military deaths in Iraq...
Hillary Carroll, the girl on your cover, was 10 years old and weighed 220 lbs. before her Type 2 diabetes was diagnosed? Gee, what was her parents' first clue that she had some kind of problem? Long-term studies of diabetes are a nice idea, but let's not overlook the obvious. Most people today, especially children, eat too much and exercise too little. JOHN M. SAXTON JR. Clarksburg...
...Tougher screening plus the closure a year ago of the controversial refugee center in Calais have helped. Opposition politicians, however, question the government's figures, saying no one has any idea of how many undocumented immigrants come into Britain. Home Secretary David Blunkett admits that he hasn't a clue. His Asylum and Immigration Bill, due for its second reading in Parliament this week, is designed to speed up appeals and removals, deal with dishonest claimants and tackle organized immigration crime and those who smuggle human cargo. In Germany, the number of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants has dropped dramatically...