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...mostly good times, being in the car business is going to be a wretched experience for the next few years. Chrysler may not even be at the next show. GM may not show up with its Hummer or Saturn brands. If domestic car sales keep dropping at 40% per year, the 2010 show may be four used Fords on display in the Javits parking...
...costly, inefficient U.S. health system, but for the wrong reasons [April 6]. Information technology (IT) improves efficiency with the rules of the game currently in play. If the rules reward treating disease complications but discourage management and prevention, IT will help health-care businesses churn out more complications per hour. The fundamental flaw in our current system is that despite decades of debate, no one has an adequate stake in preventing those costly complications in the first place. Steve Brown, WOODSIDE, CALIF...
...Under the coaching of Crocker and wife Katherine T. “Cissie” Jones, most of the players have been transformed from inexperienced riders to mallet-waving, galloping fiends. And with only three players per lineup on the field during an intercollegiate game, having even one player as experienced as Nick has made the national championships a genuine possibility this year for the young team. But for that very same reason, Nick’s success is a constant bleak reminder of how much the club will lose next season...
...inch mallet creates a satisfying thwack!, not a dull thud, against the ball, which flies precisely in the direction he intends even as he sits atop an animal that could be moving from 25 to 35 miles per hour. Nick rides the horse with a knowing intimacy, as he rhythmically pumps his upper body so that the two work as one fluid unit. No longer is Nick an awkward ursine: he’s a four-legged creature with two abdomens...
...also lack access to programs and materials they need to keep themselves safe. According to a November 2008 Beijing municipal report, of the 90,000 female sex workers in the capital, only 46.5 percent reported using condoms. With payments in some areas of the country as low as $5 per customer, many sex workers can't afford effective protection, and free condoms distributed in government programs are often low quality. "We hear the girls complain all the time that the condoms break when they use them," says Elaine Lam, of the Hong Kong-based sex workers support organization, Zi Teng...