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...health care policy nationally—as has been suggested by some faculty members—Flier said that there is “no reason that the dean of the Harvard Medical School should not have a major voice in medical education nationally,” particularly in light of the curricular review. He added that he is “personally very interested in the state of health care,” but that “it is a very complicated issue” and he is not wedded to “a single answer...
...That disengagement-and his own conciliatory nature-might have led Abe to take too light a hand with his ministerial team. Despite promises that he would centralize power in the Prime Minister's office, bureaucrats have recovered some of the influence they'd lost under Koizumi's reform-minded administration. Abe's own ministers have fallen into scandal after scandal. By July 8 even one of Abe's substitute ministers-Agriculture Minister Norihiko Akagi, named to replace the late Matsuoka-was mired in a fresh campaign-funding scandal. "He's just not any good at picking his team," says...
...write-up on How the World Eats made for interesting reading, but it also inadvertently brought to light the grim reality of the divide between rich and poor. While the average food expenditure of a family in Germany runs to $500 per week, a poor refugee family in Chad survives on the barest minimum, with only a $1.23 food expenditure per week. I would welcome another cover story that reveals the global family's expenditure pattern. Sanjay Kumar, New Delhi...
...Reluctant Hero" [June 25-July 2]: The tussle between suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and President Pervez Musharraf seems to augur well for the country's pro-democracy movement. At least the sacked Chief Justice has been able to convince the democracy lovers that there is light at the end of the tunnel, that it's not impossible to end the rule of dictators backed by men in military uniform. Now it's time for other pro-democracy leaders to get under one umbrella and offer a progressive vision. Now is the time to sow the seeds...
...propulsion sidesteps that whole mess. Rather than rely on common combustible fuel, it uses xenon gas, a comparatively light 937 lbs. (425 kg) of it loaded into a compact 72-gal. (273 L) tank. A jolt of electricity energizes the gas, causing xenon ions to shoot out the back of the ship at 77,000 m.p.h. (124,000 km/h). A stream of charged atoms has somewhat less oomph than a burst of fire--less force than the weight of a single piece of paper, in fact--but over time it adds up. "It's acceleration with patience," says Rayman...