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Managers from around the world have gotten in touch with Utah officials, and cities and towns including El Paso, Texas, and Melbourne Beach, Fla., are following the state's lead. Private industry is interested as well - General Motors has just instituted a workweek of four 10-hour days at several of its plants. "There is a sense that this is ready to take off," says R. Michael Fischl, an associate dean at the University of Connecticut's law school, which is organizing a symposium on four-day weeks...
...nursing and medical care would allow consumers to pay extra for premium services and thus stimulate domestic demand. While public health insurance is necessary, economists say that high-quality private hospitals and clinics that charge more could hire more doctors. "Why don't localities try to become the Miami, Fla., or Arizona of Japan? Because of regulation," says Curtis. It is, after all, the land of the rising sun. And all eyes are now focused on how the new administration will deal with what looms on the horizon...
...pharmaceutical and insurance companies and hospitals gouge consumers unlike anywhere else in the world. Nowhere else are there as many malpractice suits as in the U.S. Shame on the lawyers who load the judicial system with phony lawsuits. Without appropriate malpractice reform, nothing will improve. Sudhir K. Bhaskar, Orlando, Fla...
...that I've interviewed you, would you like to become my homeboy?' DAMON WEAVER, an 11-year-old journalist from Pahokee, Fla., asking President Barack Obama a final question during their Aug. 13 interview at the White House...
...This new skill that I'm acquiring in drafting players - you never know when it might come in handy," says Pam Iorio, mayor of Tampa, Fla. And how, precisely, might her fantasy prowess help her with her day job? "I'm not sure yet," she says...