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...Pixarians, of course, could say they already did monsters in Monsters Inc., aliens in WALL-E and oddball superheroes in The Incredibles. But the DreamWorkers can be satisfied with having produced another crowd-pleasing, expert-babysitting vaudeville turn. What's not to like? Who's not to laugh...
...roughly 4,500 general hospitals around the country, asking about their use of 32 different features of health information technology - including electronic patient histories, doctors' notes, lab and X-ray results, prescriptions, drug alerts and nursing orders. "We sent out the survey to the hospital CEOs," says health-policy expert Catherine DesRoches of Massachusetts General Hospital, who participated in the study, "and about 63% responded." (Read "The Move to Digital Medical Records Begins in Tampa...
...ratchets up intelligence resources to track Mexico's increasingly chaotic mix of drug organizations, at least three of which are fighting for control of Juárez. "Adding resources to fight the weapons flow, the bulk currency shipments, and strengthen intelligence are all welcome moves," says John Bailey, an expert on Mexican drug-trafficking at Georgetown University. "The question is whether the Americans are now putting some kind of long-term policy in place," which was often missing from previous Administrations...
...seems to have decided that shunning Belarus has not worked. "Isolation is perceived to have failed as there has been little change in the political structure of the country or moves toward democratization," says David Marples, a Belarus expert at the University of Alberta in Canada. With Russia badly hit by the sharp drop in the price of gas and oil, it's also a good opportunity to increase Europe's influence in the region...
...even if accepted by the electorate, the law may prove difficult to implement, says Daniel Kettiger, a legal expert on public administration and management who has been following the Appenzell debate. The proposed legislation, he points out, would prohibit "misbehavior in public places" but would not specifically target nudity, "so its interpretation will be open-ended, because a nude hiker is not necessarily unruly...