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...Most of all, you'll see guys. Lots and lots of guys, in ill-striped shirts, in ill-fitting pants and with ill-considered caps on their balding heads. To combat this mass of masculinity on the nation's golf courses, a growing Las Vegas-based company called Play Golf Designs has started a fairway-beautification project. Founded by Nisha Sadekar, a former LPGA prospect, Play Golf Designs offers a simple service. For a substantial fee, one of the company's roster of beautiful female professional golfers will play a round or two with you and your co-workers...
...notes. And to make sure they all get a piece of the action, they've created a wasteful and ill-coordinated system of health-care redundancies, from unnecessary MRIs to inpatient treatment that too often could have been cheaper outpatient treatment. Miami-Dade, for example, has one of the nation's highest hospital readmission rates - and more MRI machines than Canada...
...week Spain arrested - and sent back to the U.S. - a Miami man wanted by the FBI for allegedly submitting more than $10 million in false claims for his Hialeah medical-supply company. Last month the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that while only 2% of the nation's Medicare recipients live in South Florida, the area received the highest reimbursements for medical supplies like inhalation drugs - about 20% more than the second highest recipient area, Cook County, Ill., which contains Chicago and is itself no slouch when it comes to fraud of this type. Florida Senator...
...Although many schools across the nation have anti-bullying and anti-hate programs in place, experts acknowledge that these programs can be challenging to maintain, especially when teachers are already stretched thin...
Prison bars have long inspired infamous inmates, from revolutionaries to mass murderers, to record their tales and thoughts on rusty typewriters or hidden scraps of paper. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the first published writings of a major Mexican drug trafficker have emerged from one of the nation's top penitentiaries. Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo, arrested in 1989 and convicted of being the most powerful Mexican narcotics trafficker of his time, has written 36 pages that mix memories, ideas and reactions to current events from his cell in Mexico's Altiplano prison. After being passed from...