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Given the prevailing mood in Congress--which seems to be allergic to anything that expands the size and power of government--creating a new agency might be tough. But the Institute of Medicine has powerful logic on its side. Air travel in the U.S. is extraordinarily safe, thanks largely to the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA. They try to pinpoint the cause of every crash and, when a problem is identified, they may order the airlines to redesign equipment or improve training or adjust pilot schedules to reduce the chance of more accidents. The Occupational Safety and Health...
...these efforts are laudable, but unless they are universally adopted, patients will continue to die--not through gross negligence or incompetence but through plain human error. "This is a wake-up call," says Arthur Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers, based in New York City, and a member of the committee that wrote the new report. "The American health-care system has not put safety at the top of its agenda. Generally, they say this problem doesn't exist. But this is not an aberration. It's an all too common occurrence. And it is unconscionable to allow...
...new day in the Microsoft case. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson last month appointed Posner to try to mediate the case, and the action has now moved from Jackson's courthouse in Washington to Chicago, where Posner is presiding over closed-door conferences intended to push Microsoft and the Justice Department toward settlement. It's a daunting task: the government seems to want a lot more than Microsoft is willing to give up. But if anyone can get an agreement, it may be the brilliant and insanely workaholic Posner...
Rose, who last week launched a new campaign to be reinstated into baseball, is hoping those mental film clips will outweigh in fans' minds--and, more important, in that of baseball commissioner Bud Selig--the gambling allegations that resulted in his banishment from the sport in 1989. He claims to have evidence refuting charges that he bet on baseball, specifically on the Cincinnati Reds team he managed from 1984 to 1989. He says his mission is twofold: to get elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, from which he is now barred, and to once again manage a big-league...
...came across as a victim. Rose has seized on that to launch his campaign for reinstatement and arrange a meeting between his attorneys and baseball's representatives early next year. "This is not a reopening of the case," insists baseball spokesman Rich Levin. "The commissioner has not seen any new evidence that would warrant lifting...