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...Will there be a big, new government system? No other proposal has generated as much controversy as the idea of giving everyone the option of being covered by a government-run plan similar to Medicare. To its opponents - and some of its more ardent supporters - the public plan looks like the first step toward a single-payer system like Canada's or Britain's. "Too many people are reacting like Pavlov's dog," says Senator Chris Dodd, the ranking Democrat who has been filling in on the Health Committee for the ailing Ted Kennedy. (Read "The Year in Medicine...
Another life insurer, TIAA-CREF, the largest U.S. education retirement fund, has long been criticized for its billion-dollar investments in tobacco stocks. It now allows clients to opt to avoid such equities through special socially conscious funds. This is an option nearly all insurers now include in their portfolios. "As a TIAA-CREF participant, you do not have to own shares in tobacco companies if you choose not to," says spokesman Chad Peterson...
...remolding themselves in the image of whatever they choose, with fewer and fewer unpleasant side effects. We can either embrace this development or—as the current inclination seems to be—do everything in our power to avoid it. Our gut pulls us towards the second option, but I think our heads should pick the first...
...helpful,” Flores said. “They should not be in any way diminished, but I think everyone would agree that the biggest part of the question hasn’t been answered.”But student involvement is still up for consideration. One option currently being floated is giving students a choice between two disciplinary committees—one with students and one without, according to Donald Pfister, a professor of systemic botany and a member of the Ad Board Review Committee.“Undoubtably” the support for the provision...
...been well served as a country to have put K.S.M. on public trial, confronting him with damning evidence and exposing the bloody insanity of a man who has caused the death of more Muslims than anyone in modern history. But now, thanks to waterboarding and other interrogation abuses, this option may be closed off to us. (Read "Why the CIA Turned Down Dick Cheney...