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Chase asserts that its withdrawal was normal procedure. The bank withdrew the $250 million when it "became concerned about the lack of transparency to some questions we posed as part of our review," said Chase spokeswoman Kristin Lemkau in a January 2008 New York Times article. A Chase spokesman did not comment further. Fairfield had no comment...
...that surprising fact lies at the heart of Rapport's work: stimulants augment your working, or short-term, memory, where information is stored temporarily and used to carry out deliberate tasks like, say, solving a challenging math problem. ADHD kids have a hard time with working memory because they lack adequate cortical arousal, and Rapport believes that their squirms and fidgets help stimulate that arousal...
...average, as much as $1,100 extra and individuals $410 extra in health-care premiums each year in order to cover the cost of treatment to uninsured patients who cannot afford to pay their bills. That amounts to as much as 8% higher premiums due to the lack of universal health care in the U.S. "So many Americans think that universal coverage is for the uninsured," says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat who has been a vocal advocate of health-care reform. "This is the hidden tax we all pay for our failure to insure all Americans." (Read...
...course the larger, more immediate problem is the 47 million or so Americans who lack any health insurance or access to health care and the other 250 million who struggle with care that keeps getting more expensive and less efficient. No one would argue that electronic health records alone will fix that, but few people deny that it's a critical first step. "It will require a whole lot of leadership and a whole lot of skill," says Glaser. Americans demanded no less when they went to the polls in November. Now it's up to Washington to deliver...
...that his budget proposal was "inseparable from this recovery," apparently tying his own long-range policy goals on education, energy and health care to the end of the current recession. He also took some jabs at his Republican critics, who have mostly been marginalized in recent weeks by a lack of substantive arguments. "The critics tend to criticize, but they don't offer an alternative budget," he said, sounding exasperated...