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...planned E.U. reforms are part of a wider overhaul that aims to drain the surplus production in Europe's so-called wine lake and slash some of the E.U.'s $1.8 billion annual subsidies paid to the industry. Commission officials say the new rules could help European wines compete against their New World cousins. "We're importing rosé made by blending, so it's pretty daft that we don't allow it in Europe," says Commission spokesman Michael Mann...
...answer to the nation's health-care crisis - if only they could get the key players on Capitol Hill to give their radical plan a hearing. "There's a real opportunity for a philosophical truce here that you didn't have in 1993," the last time Washington attempted to overhaul the health-care system, says Wyden. "Republicans, who didn't accept the idea of coverage for everybody in 1993, have moved. Democrats have also moved. There's much more acceptance of giving a wide berth to the private sector...
...months, and the Food and Drug Administration has absorbed much of the blame. It is the latest in a series of black eyes for the FDA over unsafe foods, dangerous medicines such as Vioxx and allegedly cozy ties with the pharmaceutical industry it regulates. President Obama has promised an overhaul of the $2 billion agency, and he believes he's found the woman...
...endorsed Barack Obama early on in the presidential campaign and who hails from a solidly blue state. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd has played a central role in shepherding much of Obama's economic agenda, from the second half of the bank bailout to the coming overhaul of regulations governing Wall Street. With his good friend Ted Kennedy sidelined with brain cancer, Dodd has stepped in to help take a lead role on health-care reform. In fact, at one point earlier this year, before the Inauguration, Dodd was de facto chairman of Kennedy's Health, Education...
...quickly accepted the inevitability of her situation, turning to the cameras without any notes and rapidly thanking Obama for appointing her as the nation's director of the White House Office of Health Reform, a job that will put her at the center of this year's effort to overhaul both the cost and the availability of medical care in America. "I'll just say that I'm really honored," she began, speaking swiftly. (See who's who in Obama's White House...