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...Normally, Germans are a sedate and patient people. It took 16 years to get sick of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, but here we are, already tired of Schröder after seven years. Kohl's shoes were simply too big for Schröder to fill. If there had been no catastrophic flooding in August 2002 and if Bush had not gone to war in Iraq, Schröder's term would have ended after four years, in 2002. It's time for him to go. No one will miss him. Thomas Kanthak Braunfels, Germany...
...patients, who experienced fewer fevers and infections, as well as weight gain and greater appetite, benefited from increases in the number of the immune system's vital white blood cells known as helper-inducer T cells, which are killed by the AIDS virus. Most significant, said Dr. Robert Yarchoan of the National Cancer Institute, the study shows that when the deadly virus is blocked, "the immune system of an AIDS patient can at least partially reconstitute itself...
...forestall disaster, the rules were changed in 1983. A patient's ailment is now assigned to one of 470 diagnosis-related groups, which categorize treatment for everything from appendicitis to viral meningitis. Each DRG carries a fixed reimbursement rate based on the cost of treating the average patient. If a hospital can treat a patient for less than the DRG rate, it can keep the change; if the patient's care exceeds the ceiling, the hospital absorbs the loss. In theory, hospitals will lose money on complicated cases and save on simpler ones, and Medicare costs will be brought under...
...patient, low-key man, Frankel (whose relations with Rosenthal are said to be cool) is expected to calm the newsroom waters. "Consensus is his middle name," says a colleague. His selection, Times watchers say, was a politic one for Publisher Sulzberger. "I think it turned on whom Punch knew best," says one Times executive, "and who would go down well with the rest of the stockholders in the family...
...says Wexler, recalling the onset of her mother's illness. "We blamed it all on Betty Friedan." Next come the neurological and motor effects that are often mistaken for drunkenness: slowed thought processes, slurred speech, impaired memory and problem-solving abilities. In the later stages of the disease, the patient is seized by uncontrollable jerking movements...