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This commitment to universal health care shows that Canadians inhabit a very different political space than Americans do. If Canada were to abolish Medicare, tax rates would plummet, the Canadian government would run absurd surpluses and the level of care for some would definitely rise. Individuals would feel like they're benefiting until they had to pay hospital bills; the economy would certainly conform more to that of a capitalist democracy. Yet Canadians tend to agree that the society would suffer as a whole if Medicare were abolished. For us, the benefits of universal free health care aren't entirely...

Author: By Rohan R. Gulrajani, | Title: Oh Canada! Oh Canada? | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...Street's pundits was willing to declare the end of the slide, the lately ailing indexes were all in the black, with NASDAQ soaring a fabulous 241 points (almost 8 percent, the second best of all time) and the Dow regaining 157 of its 379-point Thursday plummet. It was the right sort of rally, steady and uninterrupted, and it's sure tempting to look at the previous sessions' new lows - 3074 for the NASDAQ and 10,034 for the Dow - as the floor we've been looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friday's Big Bounce: Dead Cat or Second Wind? | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

...least twice during the entirety of their school years. In contrast, the Bush education initiative requires that states test their students each year to ensure quality education at every grade level. Gore's weak-hearted proposal leaves a dangerous time gap between optional testing, allowing standards of learning to plummet dramatically with no means of catching the fall until at least four years later. Under the Bush plan, performance problems can be discerned and strengthened within the year, assuring an environment of success, not mediocrity...

Author: By Robert R. Porter and Heather A. Woodruff, S | Title: Leave No Child Behind | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...population growth in some of these nations to zero, and the population in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa will actually start to decline. Life expectancy by the end of the decade would normally have been about 70 in this part of Africa; as a result of AIDS it will plummet to 30. Said the Census Bureau's Karen Stanecki at last week's 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa: "It is hard to comprehend the mortality we will see in these countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Hope, Less Help | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

Seattle is only one of dozens of cities facing a decline in police recruiting. National statistics tracked by the Department of Justice are grim: in the past three years, New York City has seen the number of its applicants plummet from 32,000 to 15,000; in the next five years, Minnesota expects to retire half of its police forces statewide. The aging of baby-boomer cops is partly to blame. So is the profession's tarnished reputation in incidents ranging from the racially charged 1991 Rodney King beating in Los Angeles to the recent wilding incident in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be A Cop. Write Your Own Ticket | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

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