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While these reforms might result in fewer internship opportunities, this cost is worth the elimination of discrimination—specifically against those who cannot afford the opportunity cost of these internships, namely, working without wages. Employers should continue to value experience, but make it clear to students that it is no longer necessary to hold an internship to get hired...
...findings, published Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs, reveal modest improvements at best in health care quality and cost efficiency with the adoption of electronic medical records systems in U.S. hospitals...
...MoveOn.org and the local progressive Working Families Party. Still, the unions are split on McMahon, who is usually a strong supporter of the labor agenda, and most other local chapters in his district have remained noticeably quiet on his health care vote. Many Democrats fear that the cost of exacting retribution on McMahon may be the loss of his House seat. Congressman Anthony Weiner, a fellow New York Democrat, stepped in to fill Quinn's seat at the fundraiser, showing his support for McMahon, even though Weiner was a strong supporter of health care reform. "Representative Weiner and Representative McMahon...
...Besides, for all the health care hullabaloo, constituents have other things to worry about. The first question after McMahon's speech was about the rising cost of living, the next about offshore drilling and the third about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I'm this way about the health care bill," says Anna Porto, 80, a retired clerk, wagging her index and middle fingers in opposite directions. "I like that it helps the uninsured, but I don't like that we're paying for it. We can't afford it right now - we can't afford anything...
...into a mushroom cloud. The uranium bomb exploded over Hiroshima was never tested, so simple was its mechanism. Peter Zimmerman, former chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says a group of terrorists in possession of HEU could build an atom bomb using readily available hardware at a cost of around $2 million; if detonated in a city, such a bomb could kill hundreds of thousands. In Chile, I asked Bieniawski if he felt confident that al-Qaeda was still pursuing nuclear weapons rather than concentrating on struggles in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "The worst day of my week...