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...things I hide from, but I hide from that." Cain tries to make the system work as best he can, but he hates the notion of life without parole. "We're keeping dying old men in here," he says, for acts they committed decades ago. It's a drain on the prison system and a waste of life. "The public is what has to change. The will of the people has to change, not the legislature. I think many of them already know this isn't right." But he doesn't question the death penalty: "By law, I have...
...much of an increase, argues Tom Delbanco, chair of general medicine at Harvard Medical School. "Discovery is intoxicating," he says. "But the consequences of discovery are often complex, and instead of progress, it can lead to disaster." Delbanco is worried that the revolution in genetic medicine may further drain the limited amount of time that physicians have to spend with patients and add even more costs to the already expensive health-care system...
...contributions for working families. "I've always encouraged investments in the stock market [and] private savings accounts," Gore told TIME, "but they should come on top of the foundation of Social Security. That's why I call it Social Security Plus. And the difference is, Governor Bush proposes to drain $1 trillion out of the Social Security Trust Fund, which makes his plan Social Security Minus." (For more excerpts from the interview, visit time.com...
...remains to be seen whether those successful Indian Americans can go back to kick-start opportunities in their native land, in the way that a "reverse brain drain" of technical talent helped build Taiwan's computer industry in the 1980s and '90s. K.S. Ramakrishna, raised in the southern state of Karnataka, got an M.B.A. from Ohio's Case Western Reserve University in 1990 but was forced to return home when his family business near Bangalore ran into difficulties. He straightened out the firm--it makes electric cables--but was disgusted by the local business culture: the complacency, corruption and lack...
...private savings and private investment. I've always encouraged investments in the stock market, investments in private savings accounts, but they should come on top of the foundation of Social Security. That's why I call it Social Security Plus. The difference is, that Governor Bush proposes to drain $1 trillion out of the Social Security trust fund, which makes this plan Social Security minus...