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...President sat surrounded by his health-care brain trust on July 28, his words seemed unequal to the task before him. Dr. Bob Kocher, a special assistant at the National Economic Council, was on the cream-colored brocade couch across from Obama, laying out figures that showed what a sinkhole the country's health-care system has become: the U.S. spends more to get less than just about every other industrialized country. Still, Obama and his team are aware that the more Americans learn about how Washington proposes to cure that system, the more skeptical they are about the whole...
...counterparts photocopies of the passports of more than 200 Arabs - including Saad bin Laden - who had been turned away at the Afghan border. The Iranians worried that many of them would enter the country illegally through the porous border. Hillary Mann Leverett, then an official with the National Security Council and one of a handful of Americans involved in negotiations with Tehran, says the Iranians were concerned that if Saad snuck in, they would not be able to repatriate him to his native Saudi Arabia, because authorities in Riyadh were unwilling to accept any of Osama...
When it approved the measure earlier this month, the Milan city council unveiled a study that showed that 34% of 11-year-olds have "problems with alcohol" (without specifying what those problems are). In June the Alcohol Observatory of the Italian National Health Institute found that 63% of youths under 18 get drunk on weekends, with boys consuming an average of four drinks per drinking session and girls consuming...
...surprisingly, there are already signs of a mini cultural counterrevolution - not from the youth ranks but rather from an old face of Italian public life. Vittorio Sgarbi - an art-critic provocateur and lifelong political carpetbagger, having held key posts in the Italian Cultural Ministry and Milan city council - is now mayor of the small Sicilian town of Salemi, which is trying to make its mark on the map as a major wine-producing region. "We have to teach young people to drink Italian wine," Sgarbi declared to the AGI news agency last week. "If there's something...
...directly on employers, whose extra cost burden could be (and many say most certainly would be) passed onto employees in the form of higher contributions to premiums, higher deductibles and higher co-pays. "It is not a tax on insurers," says James Klein, president of the American Benefits Council, which advocates for employer-provided benefits. "It is a tax on employers and, therefore, workers...