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...Washington is coming under mounting pressure to take a more activist role in containing the conflict, not least from the very Arab allies with whom he?d vowed to repair relations after years of neglect by Clinton. The administration had been insisting that there are strict limits on what it can do as long as the parties themselves fail to bring about a cease-fire, but it received a dire warning last week from Osama El Baz, national security adviser to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. El Baz, on a visit to Washington, warned that Israelis and Palestinians "have proved...
...ports that launched Zheng He's fleets, they are long gone, destroyed by five centuries of tumult and neglect. But there are still treasure boats of a sort that ply the Liu Creek, where the armada once assembled. Fan Ping owns one of them, the Sutai Yuyou 503, a small steel ship that doubles as her family's home. It's just 10 m long; the engine a mere 20 h.p. But the 49-year-old matriarch uses the modest craft to ply the waterways for riches. She finds oil spills, sucks them up with a powerful hose and resells...
...facilities could not fill their beds. So companies have put on the brakes: construction is at its lowest level in five years. This has allowed facilities, says Wayne, "to focus on what's important." But the slowdown has left many assisted-living companies short of cash. And allegations of neglect have sparked a surge of liability lawsuits, driving up liability-insurance costs as much as 800%. Wall Street, in response, has fled. Alterra's stock, as high as $33 a share in January 1999, now sells at 23[cents] a share. Two other assisted-living companies filed for bankruptcy earlier...
...abuse violations has doubled in just the past five years, prompting Congressman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, to propose tougher staffing and disclosure rules. These may indeed be necessary. But the soon-to-be-released findings of the first national study of assisted living suggest that staffing problems and neglect in these facilities may be just as acute as in nursing homes. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report will show that 32% of assisted-living residents (who are typically much healthier than their nursing-home counterparts) had been hospitalized in the previous year, a rate higher than...
...Congress' General Accounting Office, found that 27% of surveyed facilities had been cited for five or more quality-of-care violations in a two-year period and that 11% had been cited for 10 or more violations. HHS's new national study will point to more evidence of widespread neglect: 26% of residents surveyed who needed help with toilet use sometimes didn't receive...