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When it comes to substance-abuse treatment, however, unlike other forms of medical care, many doctors and insurers have discovered a rare parcel of common ground: nearly all acknowledge that some of the changes being imposed by managed care are long overdue. "There was a lot of waste," concedes Dr. Michael Sheehy, president of patrician Silver Hill in New Canaan, Connecticut, who says that the arbitrariness of month-long stays "made no clinical sense." Dr. William Goldman, medical director of U.S. Behavioral Health, one of the largest companies in the country, agrees. "Most of the free-standing psychiatric hospitals...
KAREN DAWSON FELT HER back pop as she tried to lift a package in August 1994 from the top shelf of her United Parcel Service truck in Atlanta. Six months earlier, the 85-lb. parcel wouldn't have been there: it was on the truck only because UPS had raised its weight limit on such delivery parcels from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. in February 1994. Dawson, 37, underwent surgery for a ruptured disk but has been disabled ever since. Today she blames the company for jacking up the weight limit beyond what workers had learned to handle with comfort...
...DELIVERY SERVICE Three TV spots for DHL parody advertisers' fear tactics, as they exaggerate the perils of entrusting foreign-package delivery to no-name operators. One scenario: your parcel ends up in the hands of an aspiring Russian rock star, who holds band practice in his delivery truck and uses the pieces of cargo as drums...
...further demonstration of the rebel power to use terrorism against Russians, Shamil Basayev, a Chechen military leader, directed a television-news crew in Moscow to a radioactive parcel buried in one of the city's public parks. He told journalists in a previously filmed interview, "People these days say we are always bluffing...but remember that we are completely prepared to commit acts of terrorism that will be tangible for Russia.'' Basayev has to be taken seriously: last June he led a Chechen raid on the Russian town of Budyonnovsk that left a score of local policemen dead...
...indication of just how far Chechen rebels may have gone in their fight for independence: in a huge Moscow park, members of a Russian television crew uncovered a cache of radioactive material right where Chechen leader Shamil Basayev reportedly had told them it would be. Russian authorities insisted the parcel posed no harm to the public. But four such packages have been smuggled into Russia, according to Basayev, who claimed that at least two of them also contain dynamite that could be detonated at will. "The war has become like a slow fuse," said Basayev, "but a small event...