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...unfavorable impressions of the new Medicare law stand in sharp contrast to how people view the Medicare program itself. While just over a quarter indicated that they had a positive view of the law, nearly three-quarters of respondents said they had a favorable opinion of Medicare...
...addressed the issue in one of the most morally serious speeches ever delivered by a U.S. President. Political speeches are generally constructed - I know; I used to write them - so that facts are stacked from the very beginning to lead you inexorably to the foregone conclusion. In contrast, Bush's nationally televised address presented both sides of the question with such fairness and respect that three-quarters of the way through the speech you found yourself without any idea where the President would come...
Consider, for example, the 1922 compact that determines the allocation of water from the Colorado River. Scientists have shown, by studying tree rings and other historical evidence, that the allocation was based on water flows that were the highest they had been for more than 475 years. By contrast, the flows since 1999 rank among the lowest. As a result, Lake Powell, the giant reservoir created on the Colorado by the Glen Canyon Dam, stands some 60% below capacity and seems destined to fall even lower. No wonder that states like Colorado--whose rights to that water are trumped...
...grown three times faster than medical staff. French anesthesiologist Françoise Iossifidis has seen both sides of the equation, having worked in Britain for 17 years, the last four at University Hospital Lewisham in southeast London. She acknowledges that change has come slowly in Britain, in contrast to the more flexible French system. But she thinks the Continent and Britain are already learning from each other. As British investment increases, NHS doctors are adopting the more patient-centered approach of her home country; France, she says, can learn to reduce costs by empowering nurses and requiring more general-practitioner...
...lavatory in First Class. The FAM timed the man, dressed in a green jumpsuit with Arabic writing on it; he stayed about ten minutes in the toilet. Immediately after the man returned to the back to the plane, the FAM searched the washroom and found nothing. In contrast to Jacobsen's version, the FAM said at no time did any people congregate near the First Class bathroom...