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...Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to set up a meeting with their counterparts in 22 countries, stirring some hopeful talk of a coordinated cut in global interest rates. But Greenspan promptly denied that any such move was afoot, and the TIME board thinks he is only being realistic. "The main decision makers are focused in totally different directions, and there is no incentive to coordinate," explains Gordon. The German Bundesbank, for example, is preoccupied with smoothing Europe's conversion to a common currency, the euro, and Japanese interest rates are already so close to zero that the Bank of Japan thinks...
Duke Med is grateful too. It is affiliated with the center, which is only a few miles from its main hospital, and much prefers to handle such routine checkups here rather than in its own high-priced facilities. Lincoln Community is one of dozens of affiliations and joint ventures that Duke has with local medical facilities spread throughout the 27-county region targeted as its turf. Serving 29,000 registered patients, who made 102,000 visits last year, Lincoln is a gleaming example of Duke's community outreach at work...
What has happened to our beloved U.S.? Sex and money seem to be the main things that matter. Aren't they symptoms of decadence? We in Europe are rattled as well as astonished. HANS-JACOB HEITZ Winterthur, Switzerland...
Infidelity is nothing exceptional in American society. Although it is not defensible, the members of Congress who decided to make the Starr report public for the whole world have made their double standard evident and shown that their main concern is not the President but the coming November elections. The American electorate will certainly make its own judgment. SIGMUND LENDE Narbo, Norway...
...refreshing. Duke and its competitors are listening to patients and giving them what they want. WakeMed's new Heart Center includes an attractive built-in hotel that allows families to stay in the hospital while the patient undergoes surgery. Duke has shifted its primary-care physicians out of the main building to satellite locations, since focus groups show that patients want street-level parking when they visit doctors they see regularly...