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...Steph had a strong showing across the board," eighth-year year coach Maura Costin-Scalise said. "She definitely will have one of the top 10 fastest times in the country...
...fastest behind the counter, too," says Diane Jellis, a Harvard reunions official...
Americans spend $23,000 a second on medical care, more than $2 billion a day, $733 billion a year. That is nearly twice what they spent seven years ago, including annual increases of 10% during the past two years. For the Federal Government, medical costs have become the fastest-growing major item, increasing at more than 8% annually at a time when inflation is only about 5%. For corporate America, health care has become a crippling expense. General Motors laid out $3.2 billion last year, more than it spent on steel, to provide medical coverage for 1.9 million employees, dependents...
...fastest-growing spending program in the U.S., Medicaid will dispense $158 billion in federal and state funds this year to provide health care to 27.3 million Americans. Costs are careering out of control. Medicaid pays for half of all nursing-home patients -- or 250,000 Americans -- at an average annual cost of $34,000 a person. Medicaid also looks after the 158,000 severely impaired crack babies born every year ($1.8 billion a year), the 35,000 AIDS victims who have run out of money, the poor single mothers and pregnant teens, the hardest-pressed Americans...
CITIES: What it's like in two of America's fastest growing boomtowns, Fresno and Moreno Valley...