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...what's in the best interest of the patient, its methods are not only imprudent, they are unethical," he says, arguing that pharmaceutical firms use profits to fund research and development. Rawlins has a different take. "All health-care systems have implicitly, if not explicitly, adopted some form of cost control. In the U.S. you do it by not providing health care to some people. That's a rather brutal way of doing...
...home; paparazzi pursued her. Before long, Suzy, then 42, had been fired, and Jack, then 66, was in court with his understandably angry soon-to-be ex-wife. Seven years later, Suzy is happily married to Jack, and she is willing--nay, eager--to discuss the love affair that cost her a prestigious job and cost her paramour more than a reported $75 million settlement. Suzy and the former General Electric chieftain "work together 24/7," write together and raise her children (and their profile). And she pens smart self-help books cum memoirs to boot...
...with the ability to deliver deadly fire, drones allow joystick-wielding operators on the far side of the world--Creech Air Force Base, near Las Vegas--to track moving targets in real time and destroy them. All this, without spilling American blood and for a small fraction of the cost of conventional battle...
...Predator's firepower is limited, but the Reaper can deliver laser-guided 500-lb. bombs like those commonly found on the F-16 jet, together with Hellfire missiles. And the hardware comes relatively cheap. The Reaper costs $10 million--chump change compared with manned fighter aircraft; the cutting-edge F-22 Raptor, for instance, costs nearly $350 million. The drones' relatively low cost is due mainly to the fact that they don't have a pilot--which may also contribute to the Pakistani leadership's tacit acceptance of the CIA campaign. "If we were sending F-16s into FATA--American...
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