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...home was half an hour away from Vineland, N.J., the Ku Klux Klan's largest center in the Northeast, she says. She served on a committee fighting hate crimes during her senior year, a time when her school was rife with racial tension...
...When a brash, upstart paper called USA Today burst onto newsstands in early 1982, scores of skeptics said there would never be a sustained market for a daily newspaper with no regional focus. Those nonbelievers are eating their words Wednesday with the news that USA Today now boasts the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in America, edging out longtime leader The Wall Street Journal. For many newspaper purists it was a sad day, as the flashy newcomer that first incorporated high-tech graphics and eye-popping front-page color knocked off a sophisticated gray patriarch of in-depth analytical...
Equally alarming is what China's coal burning is doing to the planet as a whole. China has become the world's second largest producer of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, and it will be No. 1 by 2020 if it triples coal consumption as planned. But the U.S., the other environmental superpower, has no right to point a finger. Americans lead the world in greenhouse-gas production, mainly because of their ever tightening addiction to the car, the source of almost 40% of U.S. emissions...
...appears that the pendulum of managed care may be swinging back toward doctors and their patients. In a move that's being described as "extraordinary," UnitedHealth Group, the country's second largest health insurer, will announce on Tuesday that it plans to place more faith in its member doctors' diagnoses. The health plan, which insures more than 14 million Americans, spent $100 million in the past year scrutinizing doctors' recommended treatments, and, according to plan officials, ended up approving 99 percent of them. To trim these costs, executives have turned to a novel idea: Let the doctors decide what treatments...
...synonymous with insurance plan bureaucracy, evoking images of penny-pinching accountants heartlessly rejecting pleas for medical help. Could Tuesday's announcement be the first pebble in an avalanche of new health plan policies? "Sure, it's one company," says TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, "but it's the second largest in the country, and this is a very important move on their part...