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...fallout, highlights some of the pros and cons of such a system. On the one hand, McKinsey's analysts laid bare the scores of redundancies and inefficiencies within a bloated national health-care structure that employs some 1.5 million people in England. According to the Health Service Journal, which obtained a copy of the confidential report, McKinsey believes the NHS could afford to eliminate 137,000 clinical and administrative posts by 2014 - and save $32 billion in the process. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...valuable, especially for diseases of the brain, where it is very difficult to get in there and see what's going on," says Julie Williams, professor of neuropsychological genetics at the MRC Center of Cardiff University, and one of the authors of the U.K. study, published today in the journal Nature Genetics...
Italy's press has always been written by and for the intellectual élite, says Paolo Mancini, a professor of the sociology of communications at the University of Perugia. The culture pages of the major dailies have the air of an academic journal. Graphics and layout are dense and often confusing. Photos are usually portraits of the same tired faces. When political news breaks, the front pages can feature as many as five articles on the subject by leading journalists providing individual takes. Yet context or background is rarely provided. "The reader of the printed press already knows what...
Despite widespread opposition to the changeover in Samoa, the government insists it's prepared for the move. Officials have added road humps to slow traffic and, according to the Wall Street Journal, set up a training area near a sports stadium where people can practice driving on the flip side. Sept. 7 and 8 have been declared national holidays to help people ease into the new law. Leau Apisaloma, a village chief, told the Journal there's no cause for alarm: "In the beginning, it will be hard, but we'll learn - we're not stupid...
...data showed rainfall and surface temperatures over many centuries, they concluded that the climate in the past 2,000 years could not have produced the patina on the ossuary. As they wrote with Professor Yuval Goren - another prosecution witness and professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University - in the Journal of Archeological Science in 2004, "the patina covering the letters was artificially prepared, most probably with hot water, and deposited onto the underlying letters." The article states: "There is no evidence for the existence of water with such low d18O values in the area during this time span. The range...