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...What Congress is now considering is whether to make income alone the determinant of Medicaid coverage. Under the health-reform bill now being considered by the House, all non-elderly people earning at or below 133% of poverty - about $14,400 for an individual and $29,300 for a family of four - would be eligible. The House bill would have the Federal Government pick up the entire cost for those newly covered under Medicaid - $438 billion over 10 years. But a draft proposal by the Senate Finance Committee would have the feds paying the additional cost for only five years...
...second, a technical-safeguards agreement, will enable India to launch non-commercial satellites containing U.S. components, while an agreement to set up a science-and-technology endowment fund will allow more cooperation in those fields...
...addition to the monetary boost for U.S. businesses and the ego boost for India, a "strategic dialogue" encompassing a range of subjects - from soft issues like education to thorny ones such as climate change, terrorism and nuclear non-proliferation - was announced. Clinton's speeches and interviews to the local media were full of references to India's greater role on the global stage. "[I] consider India not just a regional but global power," she told an Indian news channel on July 18, the day after she arrived in Mumbai. The irony of that statement was not lost on India...
Other parts of China are witnessing similar disaffection among angry young men. But Xinjiang is like Tibet in that it has a sizable non-Han population. Unrest in these two regions conjures up one of the Chinese leadership's worst nightmares: the rise of a separatist movement that would break up the country. Given the enormous economic and social challenges China faces, Beijing values stability above all and will do practically anything to maintain...
...sharing Jerusalem has been one of the "final status" issues in the peace process since Oslo, Netanyahu on July 19 responded to U.S. pressure to halt a construction project in the eastern part of the city occupied by Israel in 1967 by insisting that Israeli control over Jerusalem is non-negotiable. It's not clear what Washington will accept. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who previously insisted that there could be no exceptions with a settlement freeze, was asked on July 16 to comment on reports of a compromise. She said she was "certainly not going to step...