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...exultant. "I can't wait to go back to see the dean," he says. His friends won't see him on TV, he says, but he feels something has been achieved. Moreover, he adamantly opposes any official ruling that would limit the number of competitors and so put a curb on the little man's Games. Then the Philippine Olympic Committee ("my mom and dad") comes up to present him with two bags...
...perks enjoyed by many U.S. corporate executives have touched a raw nerve in a time of massive layoffs and dismal profits. Irate unions and shareholders have demanded that business chiefs be held more accountable for the fat compensation packages they get. Congress has threatened to pass legislation to curb excess corporate pay if regulators fail to take on the task. Sensing the growing outrage, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Richard Breeden unveiled a set of reforms last week that will make corporate boards think twice before handing out multimillion-dollar paychecks to top executives...
...never drawn an easy breath. When she was a baby, her tiny chest convulsed at the slightest irritation. Instead of laughing, she would cough; instead of crying, gag. She succumbed to an endless string of , respiratory infections -- pneumonia, a cold, bronchitis, pneumonia again -- that ordinary antibiotics seemed powerless to curb. Diagnosed with a "failure to thrive," Brianna weighed less at one year than she did at six months. Finally, last August, just after the child's third birthday, her anxious parents took her to the University of Washington pulmonary clinic in Seattle. Chest X rays revealed that a thick, bluish...
...Bush's reform plan has huge drawbacks. One is that his $3,750 tax credit and deduction will not cover the $5,600 price of insurance premiums for an average family. Another is that it will do little to curb the skyrocketing costs of medical care, on which the U.S. spent $800 billion last year and which are rising at a rate much higher than that of inflation...
Consider the rigorously scientific methods employed by the medical profession in its efforts to curb the epidemic. Not just anyone could get breast implants. No, the doctor had to study the afflicted area first to decide whether they were truly needed. For example, a friend of mine, an ( inquiring journalist of average proportions, called a New York City-area plastic surgeon to ask about implants and was told to come in for an exam. One quick, searching look and he told her yes, she needed them, badly...