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...health-care-reform effort, which is being hit from every side by growing doubts. Douglas Elmendorf, head of the Congressional Budget Office, has testified that the legislation thus far has too little cost containment. Senators of both parties are trying to put the brakes on the President's drive to have bills passed by the House and Senate by the August recess. Republicans are calling it a dangerous "experiment." And even the Mayo Clinic - often cited by Obama as the model of what an efficient, high-quality health-care system should look like - is cautioning on its blog that legislation...
...uninsured in this country. Under the current rules, many of them are not eligible for Medicaid, which was established alongside Social Security in 1965 to cover low-income children, their parents, the poor elderly, the disabled and those in need of nursing-home care. (Read "Cost, Not Coverage, Drive Health-Care Debate...
...cars haven't exactly taken the world by storm. Reva - which has received venture capital from Draper Fisher Jurveston, the Global Environment Fund and Mellon HBV Master Global Event Drive Fund - has sold only 3,000 cars over the past eight years. Half of those have been exported to Europe, mainly to London...
...Afghanistan Grim Statistics Seven U.S. troops were killed in three separate attacks across Afghanistan on July 6, making it the deadliest day for American forces there in nearly a year. The casualties came as more than 4,000 Marines launched an offensive to drive insurgents from southern Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold. The tactic is the latest effort to shift U.S. military might from Iraq--where American soldiers withdrew from urban areas on June 30--to the nation now considered the key front in the war on terrorism...
...City, a gloomy capital that no amount of marimba music can brighten. Rich and poor communities alike are surrounded by walls topped with enough razor wire and rifle-toting guards to look like penitentiaries. This year tandem motorcycle-riding was banned because it was such a popular M.O. for drive-by shootings, and daylight saving time was canceled because the dark mornings created too many opportunities for foul play. Even so, bus drivers face being killed by armed extortionists during rush hour, and lawyers who complain about government corruption can turn up under the bougainvilleas with a few bullets...