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Both bills in Congress would set up new institutes to organize and fund more comparative-effectiveness research, ostensibly to help guide health care policy. (The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has already authorized $1.1 billion for the field.) And yet as Diana Buist, a researcher at Group Health in Seattle who received some of the stimulus funding, says, "[Comparative-effectiveness research is] a hard sell. It always has been." According to a 2007 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the topic, "Some experts believed that less than half of all medical care is based...
...last year's Mumbai terror attacks, which were orchestrated by Pakistan-based groups traditionally associated with Pakistan's military intelligence organization, the ISI. Obama and his envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, have urged India to make concessions on the decades-old Kashmir dispute in order to help Washington's efforts to get Pakistan to finally deal with the Taliban. But little has been done to coerce Pakistan to crack down on extremists using its territory as a base for targeting India...
...Clinton deserves high praise for having publicly said what no U.S. diplomat heretofore has had the sand to say: If Osama bin Laden and his confederates are indeed in Pakistan, the government there is not doing enough to help find them and bring them to justice. And she said it while she was in Pakistan! Tracy Leverton Vienna...
...roots issues. "There have been many male-centered policies in Japanese politics," says Eiko Okamoto, a former Yokohama city assembly member who won a seat in the Diet's lower house after serving 14 years in local politics. "I have high expectations that the increase in female legislators will help measures on issues that are more closely related to people's lives" such as education and child care...
Clinton deserves high praise for having publicly said what no U.S. diplomat heretofore has had the sand to say: If Osama bin Laden and his confederates are indeed in Pakistan, the government there is not doing enough to help find them and bring them to justice. And she said it in Pakistan. Tracy Leverton, VIENNA...