Word: failings
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While it may be a large generalization, most students who enter medical school have a genuine interest in utilizing their science knowledge to improve the nation's health. Yet many fail to realize how much they can accomplish through personal contact with patients. Dictating quotas smacks of paternalism, and creating an incentive-based market only diminishes the hope those students have for the healing and caring ideal put forth by past generations of physicians...
...recognize the country." For openers, "we risk losing the standard of living that we have taken for granted for so many years." But Americans will make the sacrifices required -- most prominently, paying $150 billion or so in new or increased taxes over the next four years -- because they never fail to heed "alarm bells in the night...
Furthermore, researchers now know cancer is not a one-shot process. Over the eons, the human body has evolved numerous defense mechanisms that detoxify small quantities of environmental carcinogens. So several fail-safe systems have to malfunction for a malignancy to develop. For that reason, chronic smoking, hereditary defects and a high-fat diet present the greatest dangers to health. People who want to stop eating their fruits and vegetables will have to find a better excuse than fear of pesticides...
...woman with a high-profile career watched her reputation shredded by a brutal vetting process. Unlike Baird, Wood had broken no laws; the dilemma for the Clinton Administration was that the circumstances faintly echoed the previous case. While Baird admitted flouting the law by hiring two illegal immigrants and failing to pay taxes for them, Wood insisted she was innocent of any wrongdoing. When she had first employed an undocumented Trinidadian baby-sitter in 1986 for her son Ben, the law allowed citizens to hire illegal aliens. Moreover, Wood said she had paid all the requisite taxes and filed...
...year and cost the average family about $100 a year in higher gasoline and electric bills. But oil and gas producers object that the levy would favor coal companies because their fuel is cheaper and they would therefore pay fewer taxes. Environmentalists complain that a sales tax would fail to sock it to coal and thus do little to help stop global warming. "It misses a tremendous opportunity to do good for the environment at the same time you're meeting deficit-reduction goals," says Doniger...