Word: mass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical decision-making from the grip of HMOs and hands it back to the patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates, the insurance companies? medical decisions will be fair game. Fierce anti-HMO public opinion and the AMA?s fat checkbook are making patients? rights more politically attractive than ever, and despite concerns that opening HMOs to expansive (and expensive) litigation would raise insurance costs, preliminary...
...hard workout or meet, the body starts crashing; it must take in protein in the next 30 to 45 min. or it will not rebound for the next day's activities. If you do not start lifting weights by age 50, you will lose 10% of your muscle mass...
...Ryder Cup to be held this week at the Country Club in Brookline, Mass., remains a feverishly awaited golfing event, no thanks to us--spelled U.S. While Europe's players have done their part to create a biennially thrilling competition, some of America's spoiled businessmen pros have voiced annoyance at having to endure three days of nerve-twanging match play for less pay than they'd make finishing 10th at the Greater Billings Open. Boo to them--and bring on Sergio...
...Fort Worth, Texas, and its similarities, from at least one perspective, to other recent tragedies, such as that at Columbine. "While trying to tell the story of this horrible event, we wanted to address the fact that Evangelical Christians seem to make up a larger proportion of victims of mass killings," Van Biema says. "Evangelicals are used to seeing other minorities described as the targets of discrimination and hate crimes. Now they are beginning to wonder, given these recent sets of murders, whether they themselves shouldn't be seen this...
DIED. W. ARTHUR GARRITY JR., 79, the federal judge who in 1974 triggered riots and "white flight" by ordering the desegregation, by student busing, of Boston schools; in Wellesley, Mass...