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...skin prep, antibiotics floating around in his blood along with the Three-Mile-Island cocktail from the oncologists. Boy was his knee full of fluid. You start an arthroscopy by putting a metal tube about the size of a Cross pen into the joint. You then expect to drain out an ounce or so of tannish, slippery fluid when you take the plug out of the tube...
...time to address inevitable future expenses. As baby boomers draw nearer to retirement and Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid payments skyrocket, the federal government has not yet found a way to pay for the increased prescription drug benefits of 2003. Meanwhile, billons continue to go down the Iraqi drain, with fresh funds flowing from Congress almost every other month to fund the administration’s flagship failure. Yet neither war nor terrorism changed the Republican conviction in lower taxes for the higher classes. Snow’s pleas to Congress for more money, more debt, amount to more bills...
...Absolutely not. It's the biggest debacle in foreign policy this country has seen since Vietnam. It's money and lives down the drain. It has cost hundreds of billions of dollars with billions more to come. It has destabilized the Middle East. It has cost more than 2,300 lives of Americans and probably 100,000 lives of Iraqis. It has enflamed the Islamic world. This was a misconceived war. It has cost America standing in the world since it was launched under false pretenses. This war has been a disaster from the start. We ought...
...There's little doubt that the idea of a "brain drain" verges on a national neurosis. In the year to January, the number of New Zealanders permanently departing the country exceeded by 25,000 those returning home; two years earlier the gap was 11,200. About 90% of the dynamic comes from the pull of high-wage Australia. During last year's election campaign, Don Brash, leader of National, the main opposition party, argued that the exodus was caused by his country's miserable growth in incomes (which are one-third below Australia's, on average, after tax) despite...
...McConnell says KEA, which operates like a university alumni organization, can help the country's smaller exporters find their way to major or distant markets and also take some of the psychological strain off successful expats, who are often accused of abandoning their country. The brain drain can be a huge opportunity, if it's managed properly, keeping those who leave feeling connected. Some Kiwis, like McConnell, are changing their minds about where the focus of immigration policy should rest: less emphasis on attracting immigrants who are offshore, and more on tending to the needs of former expats...