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Some experts fear the programs have already gone too far. "It goes against the spirit of health promotion, which is a voluntary change in behavior," says Ted Wegleitner of HealthSystem Minnesota, a large health-care provider. If the incentives are too attractive or the punishments too harsh, some people will end up hiding their unhealthy behavior. Turner Broadcasting System in Atlanta has a policy by which the company can fire employees hired after 1986 who are caught smoking--whether at work or at home. So far, no one has been fired under the policy. But some people, says an employee...
DROPPING LEAFLETS ON THE CAPITAL OF another nation while violating its airspace and inciting people to rebel against a government on repeated occasions are harsh provocations. Any self-respecting country would be expected to respond to this kind of repeated attack. Castro's reaction was fair. He tolerated the insult more than a dozen times. The Cuban-American activists got the treatment they asked for. ENRIQUE FARIAS Mexico City...
...majority leader is said to express himself quite well in conversation with his colleagues, his specialty being what my daughters used to call the harsh snap. Around the time of the Iowa caucuses, I don't think I was the only consumer of campaign coverage who longed for the capacity to trade a few hundred hours of pundit blather for 30 seconds of what Bob Dole was saying about Steve Forbes in private...
...date about the state of relations between the world's sole remaining superpower and its sole up-and-coming superpower. One misstep and one misperception after another in recent years have bumped the U.S. and China closer to crisis. The latest rupture has been triggered by China's harsh warning to Taiwan, underlined by war games offshore, that it must remain committed to eventual reunification and squelch whatever dreams of independence it might be harboring. True, what is happening off Taiwan is pantomime rather than confrontation: eager to avoid a clash, both sides are merely using their military to lend...
...generals in Beijing, says Andrew Nien-Dzu Yang, a Taiwan specialist on the Chinese military, "don't want a confrontation with the U.S.," but some of Beijing's rhetoric about the U.S. commitment to Taiwan has had a harsh tone. Whether with pure bluster or a touch of psy-war, a member of the general staff late last year told Chas. W. Freeman, a former U.S. diplomat in Beijing and Assistant Secretary of Defense, that "America will not sacrifice Los Angeles to protect Taiwan." At this point China lacks the military capability to bring off a successful invasion...