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After U.S. secretary of State Colin Powell spent a day in Berlin last week trying to patch up post-Iraq diplomatic damage, the question was clear: Does either side really want to make nice? Before Powell held talks with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, he met briefly with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, with whom he was photographed shaking hands. Will the Chancellor enjoy the same photo op with President George W. Bush when the two attend summits in Russia and France in late May and early June? The two haven't spoken since November. The Germans have made it clear...
...Guangxi, for instance, is just half that of Beijing's, with a population of 13 million. "Rural health care is the blister on China's medical system," says Cai Renwen, director of the National Health Economics Institute in Beijing. "You can lance it, but then you have to patch it with money," he says, "and the government hasn't been willing to spend...
...words: something ain't right at the Ciccone-Ritchie home. Presumptuous? Maybe. But a casual glance at the lyric sheet for American Life, Madonna's bipolar 10th album, proves that at the very least, the world's most famous yoga-practicing B-movie Cabalist is going through a rough patch. If you don't believe her words, listen to her voice. American Life is the first Madonna record that suffers from a complete lack of exuberance. It's not bad, but like a Prince album without lust or an Eminem song without rage, it takes some getting used...
...that go by the names Consumer Alliance, 60-Plus and Medicines Work have fought against lists in Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, the Carolinas and other states. A common way they shape opinion is through telemarketing initiatives that give recipients selected facts and then offer to patch them through to the governor or legislature to register their disapproval. In some states, like West Virginia, drugmakers have filed lawsuits to challenge the lists...
Before I go out, I test the drag act on my home turf, the Dudley Co-op. I descend the stairs in my male regalia, baseball cap pulled low and a scruffy goatee and soul patch pasted on my face...