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...first time in 10 years, Germany's public-health system was no longer in the red. The number of doctor visits was down 10% for the first quarter compared to the same period in 2003, as were working days lost to sick leave. Britain may be a magnet for private surgeons, but for British patients it's no promised land. A relative paucity of practicing physicians - 2.1 per 1,000 people in 2002 as opposed to 3.3 in Germany and France - means long waiting periods. But things used to be much worse. Since Prime Minister Tony Blair took office...
...postmodern obsession with all things natural and New Age. Not even the medieval English town of Totnes. Nestled in the lush pastures and wheat fields near Dartmoor in southern Devon, Totnes for decades made a quiet living from cream teas, antiques and postcards. But these days, it's a magnet for urban refugees running the kind of bohemian business normally associated with trendy metropolitan neighborhoods. Twenty years ago, Totnes' idea of radical was reduced-fat cream. Now, a stroll through its Tudor-period Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade...
...Gate. Opened in October 1853, the fashionable restaurant was nearly destroyed in World War II, then left to decay during the reign of East Germany's communist government. But under new management, Borchardt's gained a new lease on life after the Wall fell, and it's now a magnet for Berlin's political and social ?lite...
...Wonderful Town," which calls itself "the New York City musical," is just that. It's about New York as a magnet for ambitious young show people - a tiny space that concentrates the talents of all who come there and distills from them a popular art that will entertain the rest of America...
Free-flowing booze became the order of the day. And, according to alumni, students seized the Animal House caricatures of madcap parties as an ideal weekend-night magnet to Harvard’s Houses...