Word: local
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...millions of U.S. students, a hot meal has been part of the school day since Congress passed the National School Lunch Program in 1946. But with many items on today's menus crammed with fat and calories, educators are taking a cue from the local-food movement to put school lunches on a healthier path...
...South and Midwest, have not attempted such bold reform, meaning they will probably be slower to adapt to potential new responsibilities. There is also a concern among some policy experts that state legislators, who could have a lot of control over reform implementation, are too beholden to local interest groups like small insurers and health systems. "There's no question that lobbyists win cheaper on the state level," says Len Nichols, a health economist at the New America Foundation. "With a set of [Arkansas] Razorbacks tickets for one weekend and they've got it." (See what health-care reform really...
...States also may be better at innovating on delivery and payment reform, working with local health-care providers to make care more efficient and affordable. "It's very hard for the feds to experiment," says Rhode Island's Koller. "What we can do much better is work with providers and work with the delivery system...
...showpiece for how Western aid would modernize Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Repaved in 2003, the 300-mile highway is now pocked with craters from roadside bombs. Travelers face three or four Taliban checkpoints along the way. A Western businessman says his trucking firm pays a local commander from $5,000 to $6,000 for the safe passage of each fuel tanker along the highway, a sum which he suspects the Taliban get a share of. He also claims that in order to ship fuel from Kandahar to a Dutch base at Tirin Kot, the firm hired...
...basis - has been stored abroad because the city charged an onerous duty on imported wines that at one point reached as high as 80%. Then, two years ago, the market really began to flourish when the government scrapped all wine and spirits duties. To encourage the creation of a local wine industry, authorities also abolished most of the paperwork surrounding wine imports, and importers were allowed to have customs inspections inside wine cellars, saving delicate vintages from examination in the scorching dockside...