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...will be evaluating the cost of the [student prescription] plan, but pharmacy costs and drug costs continue to rise,” Rosenthal said. “Health care costs are rising and we are trying to keep up and maintain our services...
...public infrastructure such as toxic-waste disposal and water distribution. Organized-crime clans throughout southern Italy have obtained a sizeable chunk of public works services, often by bidding through a front company. Once contracts are obtained, environmental activists say, Mob bosses defy laws meant to protect the ecosystem and maintain public-health standards. The mayor of Naples said: "If need be, I'll sweep the city myself." - By Jeff Israely/Naples E.U. HERE WE COME LITHUANIA AND SLOVAKIA Lithuania became the first former Soviet republic to vote to join the E.U., with more than 90% supporting the move. Officials had feared...
...Conversely, cities decayed because of internal and social strife, costly military campaigns to maintain trading empires or other commercial interests, protectionism, inability to adapt to changing economic conditions and intolerance toward minority groups, which encouraged merchant families or religious minorities to leave. And there has been another, frequently overlooked agent of urban decline: disease. For example, the Black Death, caused by the Pasteurella pestis, reappeared in Europe in 1346 when the port city of Kaffa was besieged by the Mongol leader Kipchak khan Janibeg, who catapulted dead bodies into the city (the first recorded case of biological warfare). The plague...
...sign of any internal critique, just a lot of very high-class production values ... not much art here, either?only a feeble sort of entertainment." Worried about his reputation as a serious artist in the West, Murakami rattles off a list of departures he is now taking to maintain his high-art cred. For starters, he says, he is exploring traditional Japanese materials and motifs?updated twists on Buddha statues, scrollwork, calligraphy, screen painting and a 300-year-old dye technique called yuzenzome...
...Badgers, who have steadily improved since their most recent meeting with the Black and White, could not maintain the pace and the three-boat race was weaned down...