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Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who has been advising the President on education since his days as Texas Governor, notes that the law went into full effect only last year and that more time is needed for it to work. Still, she and the Administration have proposed a large number of adjustments to a law she once compared to Ivory soap, saying "It's 99.9% pure." "We wrote the very best bill we could five years ago," Spellings told TIME, "but we've learned from our experiences." Meanwhile, members of Congress have their own fix-it agendas, as do state...
...most intriguing qualities of extraordinary people is that they often don't feel that they are special. As they transform the lives of those around them, they say they are just doing what they have to do. Margaret Mikol is one such hero. In 1978, her daughter Julia was born with severe combined immunodeficiency, which required her to be kept in a completely sterile hospital environment--like the "boy in the bubble." When Julia was 3 months old, she had a bone-marrow transplant that left her with a functioning immune system but unable to breathe...
...Margaret moved into the hospital with Julia; her husband Yves continued working back home in Maryland and commuted to New York City on weekends. Julia's hospital bills were about $350,000 annually. The Mikols quickly exhausted their medical insurance and had to rely on Medicaid. Caring for Julia at home would have been about $50,000 a year, but while the Federal Government would reimburse hospital care, it wouldn't cover the cost of caring for a child at home...
Determined to create something closer to a normal family life for their daughter, the Mikols applied to a new federal program that allowed Julia to retain Medicaid coverage while being cared for at home. After a lengthy bureaucratic struggle, Margaret and Yves became the first parents in New York and the second parents in the nation to take home a child on life support. "The process transformed my personality," says Margaret. "I had been a shy and timid person, and I became brassy and obnoxious. I changed into a beast to protect my child...
...Margaret L. Dale, the Medical School’s dean for faculty and research integrity, says the school is also concerned that if researchers are too closely tied to outside firms, “it becomes a company laboratory...