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Lifesaving heroics get the headlines, but there is real money to be made, particularly in the transport of a growing legion of elderly to and from hospitals, nursing homes, HMOS and other facilities, either in ambulances or in specialized vehicles known as ambulettes. It's one of the unintended consequences--and opportunities--of health-care reform: hospitals are discharging patients earlier, while others need to be shifted more frequently between care centers, boosting the need for transportation...
...middle of last week. Interior Minister Anatoli Kulikov, Lebed's open and bitter enemy, declared that Lebed was planning a coup, that he wanted to place most of the country's intelligence and military machine under his control and had proposed the creation of a 50,000-strong Russian Legion--ostensibly to fight crime, but in fact, Kulikov said, to be used in a power grab...
CHICAGO: It's a good thing that political positions can't be copyrighted, because if they could, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp and a legion of other GOP leaders would be sending bills to the Clinton Administration. Consider the handy term "empowerment" (translation: do it yourself). Bush once talked of empowering the states to reform health care; Kemp preached empowering inner-city residents to earn their way to middle-class prosperity. Clinton Administration officials now want to empower Americans to do a lot of things the federal government has always seen (and budgeted) as its business, and everytime they...
...groups. But even in the sepia-tinted past, many associations were formed in reaction to perceived injustice--we've just forgotten the original provocation. The precursor of the PTA, the National Congress of Mothers, was formed in part to help push through laws for women's pensions. The American Legion lobbied for the G.I. Bill. "Organized civil society in the United States has never flourished apart from active government," Skocpol has written...
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia: FBI investigators are looking into whether a homegrown Saudi terrorist movement might be behind Tuesday's attack. The London Al-Arab newspaper received a phone call on Wednesday claiming the previously unknown "Legion of the Martyr Abdullah al-Huzaifi" was responsible for the bombing, and threatening more attacks if the foreign troops "occupying the holy Saudi land" did not leave. In Khobar, the investigation of the cordoned-off blast site is underway. An FBI team equipped to search through the rubble for clues is hunting for pieces of the fuel truck that carried the 5,000-pound...