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...Delay may be awkward, but moving too hastily with a half-baked bill can be worse, as the HELP Committee is learning the hard way. The committee forged ahead with a markup - a formal drafting session - on June 17 despite a CBO estimate that its bill, as it stands, would increase the deficit by $1 trillion over the next 10 years and still leave the number of uninsured about two-thirds as high as it is now. Senator Chris Dodd, filling in for ailing committee chairman Ted Kennedy, hadn't even read his formal opening statement before he was interrupted...
Tempted to ask for that extra in-flight pillow? Or rant about a flight delay? Tread carefully: your airline's staff may just be working for free. British Airways recently asked its 40,000 employees to consider laboring for nothing for up to one month. "Colleagues are being urged to help the airline's cash-saving drive by signing up for unpaid leave or unpaid work," read an article in BA News, the carrier's in-house newspaper. Chief executive Willie Walsh, who has pledged to forgo his $100,000 monthly salary in July, said the airline was caught...
...State Department doesn't usually take an interest in the maintenance schedules of dotcom start-ups. But over the weekend, officials there reached out to Twitter and asked them to delay a network upgrade that was scheduled for Monday night. The reason? To protect the interests of Iranians using the service to protest the presidential election that took place on June 12. Twitter moved the upgrade to 2 p.m. P.T. Tuesday afternoon - or 1:30 a.m. Tehran time. (Read "The Iran Election: Twitter's Big Moment...
Just before you picked up this magazine, you probably made a decision that affected your health. Maybe you bought the pizza instead of the salad. Or are sipping soda instead of water. Perhaps you decided once again to delay the beginning of your long-planned exercise routine. Every day there are hundreds of seemingly trivial decisions that individually may not mean a whole lot but in combination can add or subtract a substantial amount of time to or from our lives. As a doctor, I am convinced that most people know the healthier choice; they just need frequent reminders...
...understand and accept. The polls can tell a President what the American people want to hear, but after so many years of sandbox politics and childish games, there comes a time to grow up. Given the hard choices, does the President think we're ready to handle complexity and delay gratification? If not now, when? Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults. The question remains whether President Obama will govern as though he believes...