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...Administration says the country is largely quiet--but a successful guerrilla war doesn't require much more than a fervent handful of fighters. In Iraq there are on average a dozen attacks against American soldiers each day. There are countless acts of sabotage. There is massive theft of oil, copper (from power lines) and electrical equipment. And there are the now weekly high-profile terrorist acts, like the bombing of the U.N. headquarters two weeks ago and of a shrine in Najaf last week...
...Administration says the country is largely quiet-but a successful guerrilla war doesn't require much more than a fervent handful of fighters. In Iraq there are on average a dozen attacks against American soldiers each day. There are countless acts of sabotage. There is massive theft of oil, copper (from power lines) and electrical equipment. And there are the now weekly high-profile terrorist acts, like the bombing of the U.N. headquarters two weeks ago and of a shrine in Najaf last week...
Valdez gave birth to her first child at Copper Queen Community Hospital in Bisbee, an old mining town just 26 miles northwest of Douglas. But when six family practitioners decided they couldn't afford the soaring malpractice premiums required for them to keep delivering babies, the hospital was forced to close its delivery room. Suddenly rural Cochise County, a 6,000-sq.-mi. expanse of mountains and desert along the Mexican border, had but one delivery room left for its 118,000 residents. It is in Sierra Vista, 50 miles northwest of Valdez's home. Which means that a week...
Some expectant couples rent motel rooms in Sierra Vista for when their babies are due. But some who can't afford a room or whose timing is off end up with the baby arriving in the middle of the night while they're racing along the highway, according to Copper Queen Hospital CEO James Dickson. The intersection of Highways 80 and 90 is listed as the place of birth on the certificate of a baby girl born in the front passenger seat of a car where those highways cross. Women lacking transportation, a common problem in this working-poor area...
...work force. In the old way of thinking, employees were an investment, like factories or land, says Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary and now a professor at Brandeis University. Adding workers was a major expense, and cutting them was a decision not taken lightly or often. Today, like copper ore or cotton bales or computer-memory chips, most employees are regarded as commodities to be stockpiled or shed as business warrants. Technology not only allows fewer people to do the jobs of many; it also allows their skills to be taught fairly quickly anywhere in the world. So experience...