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Just before the holiday weekend, HMOs threw a monkey wrench into the already convoluted politics of Medicare. The trade association for the managed care industry announced that HMOs would be increasing premiums or cutting benefits for most of the 6 million Medicare patients enrolled in their programs next year. Worse, some 250,000 Medicare patients would be dropped from HMO rolls altogether. The reason: The federal reimbursements for taking on Medicare patients are insufficient, said the industry. Medicare officials disagreed, but they limited their immediate public reaction to that of a muted ?disappointment? over a development that could seriously complicate...
...young maturity, of his interspecies uniqueness. But later, when he falls in love with Jane yet feels obliged to stay with his ape family to protect them, the yell carries a wrenching pathos. It is the primal scream of someone who doesn't know if he's man or monkey...
...employees (the firm denied wrongdoing). For his part, Curry alleges he was paid less than his white counterparts and was often assigned menial work. Co-workers allegedly derided him and other African-American employees. After the magazine appeared, Curry says, people left messages calling him a "faggot" and a "monkey...
ROLE PLAYING These games look like movies, except the players direct the action and the dialogue and must solve problems to find their way out of each "scene." The MONKEY ISLAND series (latest: CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND) is O.K. for all ages; GRIM FANDANGO, with its noir-ish themes, is better for mature teens and adults...
Indigo is the last remnant of a desert Indian tribe at the turn of the century. Orphaned by a U.S. cavalry raid, the girl is captured and sent to boarding school. She escapes, only to be discovered by a monkey and its newly married mistress, Hattie Palmer. Indigo, fighting to keep her culture, and Hattie, fed up with her own, form an uneasy bond. No matter how many new worlds Hattie takes the girl to, Indigo longs to return to the tribal gardens in the dunes. The plot undergoes some awkward twists to accommodate that wish, but Silko has crafted...