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...expensive and esoteric treatments should be available to all. At issue, rather, are the costs of the process itself--the effort and delay inherent in acquiring care and the extent to which considerations other than mere health are brought to bear by corporate managers who must approve even such minor procedures as blood tests and mammograms. Yet the most fundamental question raised by the new medicine is one largely missing from public debate: Can you still trust your doctor...
...Giuliani-Bratton strategy, of course, than terrorizing captains at early-morning meetings. Though their predecessors, Mayor David Dinkins and Kelly, deserve real credit for putting more cops on the beat, Giuliani instructed Bratton to do something Dinkins would never have allowed: use those cops to crack down on minor offenders, public drunks, potheads, those who urinate on the street, aggressive panhandlers, graffiti scribblers and "squeegee pests," who converged on cars at stoplights to clean windshields for spare change...
This quality of life campaign tested a principle that Giuliani and Bratton had believed for years: the "Broken Windows" theory, first put forth in 1982 by criminologists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling. Wilson and Kelling argued that minor violations create a disorderly environment that encourages more serious crime. "I chose Bill Bratton," says Giuliani, "because he agreed with the Broken Windows theory." Sure enough, as arrests for small offenses rocketed, New York's streets became notably more civil. Then Maple, who has been Bratton's aide-de-camp and crime strategist since Bratton was slashing subway crime...
...policies, things are a lot different and a lot better now. Montana has done away with the speed limit in favor of a hefty fine for reckless driving, a charge which carries much stiffer insurance penalties than mere speeding. In the past, being pulled over for speeding was a minor inconvenience at its worst. Now, if you are pulled over because of the speed you're doing, its no joking matter...
...HERE COMES MR. JORDAN: Michael, for some reason, decided the bright lights of Greenville, Huntsville, Knoxville, Jacksonville and the other villes of minor- league baseball were not for him. In a year of many happy returns, the renewed sight of Jordan--tongue and all--in a Bulls uniform was the most welcome. He gave the team a boost, unslumped the big shoulders of Chicago and demonstrated that even when rusty, he's still His Airness. The White Sox may have lost a fifth outfielder, but the planet regained its best basketball player...