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...health care in America today. Too many pills thrown at too many soldiers. They're often just palliatives. Spoons full of sugar that aren't really advancing the recovery of the soldier. Paraplegics, especially, aren't getting the finely tuned physical therapy they need. This is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Physical therapy involves a real-life person being with you for at least a half hour, pushing and pulling, getting the arms up in the air, doing everything that the paraplegic cannot...
...served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 1963, where he has gained a reputation for supporting social reforms. He is currently the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions...
...latest signpost in the U.S. job market's descent arrived on Friday, when the Department of Labor announced that the non-farm payrolls shed an unexpectedly high 240,000 jobs in October, the tenth straight monthly decline, and yet another sign that the recession's grip is tightening. Overall, the unemployment rate surged to 6.5%, higher than most economists had been expecting. The report added to that gloom with a downward revision of September job losses to 284,000, the biggest monthly loss since...
...blueprint for how it believes the U.S. must dramatically overhaul education policies in order to maintain a globally competitive economy. "Forty years ago, the United States had the best educated workforce in the world," says William Brock, one of the commission's chairs and a former U.S. Secretary of Labor. "Now we're No. 10 and falling...
...much as the exchange of fire rattled the truce, it may have been ritual bloodletting. Neither Hamas nor Israel wants the cease-fire to end yet. The Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants to prolong it because his Labor Party, according to polls, stands to lose more legislative seats in this February's general elections, and a prolonged, bloody assault on Gaza - which would probably fail to crush Hamas - could further jeopardize his chances. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...