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...French spy called in to vet it. A Villepin intimate has testified he sent the list to a justice official convinced it was authentic, and that it wasn't until later that he learned the list was definitely a fake. What the judge overseeing the trial must now determine is whether Villepin ordered the forged list to be circulated hoping it might torpedo Sarkozy's presidential run - or whether Villepin himself is, as he claims, the innocent victim in the affair...
...government's ambitious campaign to vaccinate the country against swine flu during the 1976 scare [Oct. 5]. This debacle resulted in decades of study on the wisdom of mass-vaccination campaigns and the ultimatum from swine-flu-vaccine makers - agreed to by the U.S. government in June - that they must be granted immunity from lawsuits. The 1976 campaign saw expensive lawsuits against the government from the families of the 25 people who died and the 500 or so who were partly paralyzed by Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Only one person died of the 1976 swine flu. It is wrong...
...found the courage and determination of your Heroes of the Environment inspiring [Oct. 5], but no mention was made of the root cause of our problems - too many people. This nettle must be grasped. China has been excoriated for its one-child policy, and certainly there are faults with the policy. However, unless the rest of the world joins together in addressing this growing threat to our survival, all talk of human rights is specious. Many people talk of saving the planet. What they really mean is saving it as a comfortable habitat for the human race. The planet...
...that they stay within 80% of the national average, but up to 20% of income is based on teams' achieving performance goals. If the cardiac group keeps its complication and readmission rates below a certain level, paychecks get fatter because costs decrease. Ditto for the pediatric orthopedic team, which must successfully treat kids for, say, spinal curvature without being too quick with the knife for those who don't need surgery or too slow for those who do. "We keep cash compensation flexible and incentivized," Steele says. "That takes away some of the insane piecework...
That's carbon emissions, of course. As the green movement makes its way into the bedroom, low lighting is a must--to conserve electricity--but so are vegan condoms, organic lubricants and hand-cranked vibrators. (See five eco-friendly sex accessories...