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...touch down with the locals. Those streets, after all, were so authentically funky that some of them had served as locations for the film version of West Side Story. When you consider that the Jets and the Sharks used to flash their switchblades not far from where the Metropolitan Opera now stands, it's amazing that the island of culture didn't come with a moat and a drawbridge. (See 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours in New York City...
...financial muscle to absorb the shock of the slowdown. He remains bullish on the prospects for Asia, and particularly for China, where Shangri-La already has 27 hotels including entries in up-and-coming cities like Wuhan and Dalian, where business has been holding up better than in major metropolitan areas like Beijing and Shanghai. "We do still see medium- to long-term opportunities for growth for all the areas we are getting into," Rao says. "We are in this for the long haul...
...meantime, some say the medical hierarchy needs to be shaken up to meet the rising demands. Erika Ogawa, a second year junior resident at Tokyo Metropolitan Toshima Hospital, says that more can be done with medical staff, such as nurses, by increasing their numbers and training them to take on more responsibilities. "A medical professional should be in a position to find a hospital that can do an emergency" treatment, rather than ask ambulance staff - who, she says, are not medical professionals - "to keep making calls in vain." Kondo agrees that allowing trained nurses and paramedics more freedom...
...Tokyo has taken a different approach. The city started a fund back in 2006 for the construction of its proposed Olympic venues and infrastructure. Tokyo's metropolitan government will have banked some $4 billion by the end of 2009. The city authority "knows that during good moments, you save money," Hidetoshi Maki, deputy director-general of the Tokyo bid, told reporters in London on Feb. 5. And with the national government pledging to cover up to 50% of the venues' construction costs, "we don't think our bid plan is hugely damaged" by the slowdown, said Maki. Limiting the number...
Given the enormous cost and general lack of health-care coverage for IVF - one cycle can cost $10,000 or more - questions have arisen about how Suleman, who previously worked as a psychiatric technician at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, Calif., earning just $625 a week, could afford such a procedure. At the time of her IVF treatments, it does not appear that Suleman was working, owing to an injury sustained...