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...cost effective," intone the bean counters. Let's count. Take, for example, a suggestion by the highly regarded Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that hospitals be required to ask patients whose blood is already being tested whether they would consent to having it tested for HIV as well. The test costs $60 or less and routinely identifies many who were unaware they had the virus. If those who are thus identified were to transmit the disease to only one less person on average, the suggested tests would pay for themselves much more readily than a coronary bypass, PSA tests...
...asked if there were any objections to a compromise worked out behind closed doors by Republican and Democratic leaders anxious to finish one last piece of legislation. No one said a word. So Vice President Al Gore, presiding, declared that "the Brady bill has been passed" -- theoretically by "unanimous consent" of the three remaining Senators. Bill Clinton hailed the move as a "wonderful Thanksgiving present...
Mederos said the warrant was initially servedbefore 8 p.m., when it was valid, and he and twoother officers returned later only after Perrygave his consent to the search. Sources said Perrymay dispute that he gave his consent when hetestifies...
...Florio in 1981 by fewer than 2,000 votes, a federal court ruled that the Republicans' "ballot security task force" had violated federal laws by stationing gun-toting, off-duty police officers near polling places in black areas to frighten voters away. The state G.O.P. eventually entered into a consent decree promising never to use such tactics again...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Manufacturing Consent: Part2" at 9:15 p.m. See Thursday's listing formore information. "Farrebique" at 7:30 p.m.This is a powerful cinematic choronicle of anisolated farm and its inhabitants through thechanging landscape of an entire year...