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...beyond Google in its ability to dig into the content of multimedia files. But the source acknowledged that a launch is still months away. John Battelle, author of a book on Google, thinks transatlantic rivalry might be playing an outsized role. "I'm skeptical of government forays into free-market economies when the primary motivation is political," he says. And even if Quaero should prove revolutionary, to compete with the mammoth Internet companies it's best to own the domain Quaero.com. That name, however, already belongs to the North Carolina-based marketing and technology company Quaero Corporation. Patrick Dineen...
...extend the deadline for signing up for the new benefit from May 15 to Dec. 31, a House G.O.P. aide tells TIME. The difficult transition, though, is more than just a product of bureaucratic fumbling. It is a significant step in the march of U.S. health care toward a free-market system governed by choice and risk. President George W. Bush is expected to make that movement a central element in his State of the Union address next week and to emphasize its promise. The patients, families and pharmacists caught up in Part D know its price, at least...
Ultimately, the future of Medicare Part D will depend not just on Republicans or Democrats, insurers or drugmakers, pharmacists or health-care experts. It will hinge on the willingness of the millions of people eligible for Medicare to submit to this experiment in free-market health care. Americans could decide that the health of the old, the sick and the needy deserves a system separate from the one that rules whether Internet companies and T shirt makers live or die. But if enough people agree to endure the smaller upheavals that are sure to come, Part D gives them...
...with America's neighbors. Last fall the U.S. President met violent street protests at the Summit of the Americas in Argentina, where his hemispheric free-trade proposal was buried--and where Argentine President Néstor Kirchner, another leftist, heads a growing revolt against the U.S.-backed debt policies of the International Monetary Fund. For much of the 1990s, governments from Mexico City to Buenos Aires embraced the free-market reforms known as the Washington Consensus. But that is no longer true. In 1998 the richest 10% of Latin America's population earned 40% of the income...
...hold free public discussion of ongoing processes," he said. "My willing suspension of this ability would have been a gross dereliction of official and professional duties on my part. I chose to resign instead." Illarionov's resignation coincides with Russia's assumption of the G-8 group leadership this year. Putin is expected to use the forum to stress how Russia today shares key Western values and ideals. Illarionov's departure is thus awkwardly timed for Putin, but it is also a sign that, under his presidency, Russia is a very different place from the free-market economy and pluralistic...