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...have come to regard it as a dark conspirator in their lives. This peculiar brand of distrust helps create the conditions for fast-moving fear-mongering, especially on complex and emotionally charged topics like the life and death of the elderly and infirm. Prairie fires of that kind are hard to douse when the Administration's own plan for health care remains vague, weeks away from being ready for a public rollout. The health-care bill that recently passed the House does not contain, as some have suggested, any provisions that would deny treatment to the elderly, infirm or disabled...
This is where the criticism of Emanuel enters the picture, since he is just the sort of scientist who might be appointed to one of those panels. For decades, Emanuel has studied the ethics of medical care, especially in situations where a scarcity of resources requires hard decisions to be made. His work sometimes deals with the hardest possible decisions, like how to choose who gets a single kidney if there are three patients in need, or the reasons that doctors order tests with little medical value. Emanuel's reputation ranks him among the top members of his field...
...Manila - most conspicuously on Friday and Saturday nights, when avant-garde DJ sets, indie-rock gigs, poetry readings, independent-movie screenings and art-show openings spring up as if spontaneously. Yet even without an event on the cards, the compound's motley venues offer plenty of diversions. It's hard not to find joy within the expansive Grand Thrift House, tel: (63) 920 962 3079, run by a family of antique and curio collectors - expect vintage Elvis posters, brick-sized cell phones and secondhand photography books (if you're lucky, you'll find one that features a youthful Imelda Marcos...
...make profits while shifting business models, the airlines have to think, act, breathe and be low cost," Amitabh Malhotra, managing director of investment bank NM Rothschild & Sons in Mumbai. "That doesn't happen overnight." Adds Patel, India's aviation minister: "This time every airline will learn a lesson the hard...
...first trip to North Korea, my guides reached out to me. "We are trying very hard to get investors into the DPRK." They asked me to recruit people at home interested in doing business in North Korea...