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...more, growing numbers of businesses and consumers are abandoning HMOs. In California, the state that pioneered managed care, the percentage of people enrolled in HMOs has fallen below 50% for the first time in eight years. Most are moving toward costlier plans with higher premiums and more out-of-pocket expenses...
...twitted Europeans' environmental correctness by deciding to let the United States sit out the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Then he offended their sophisticated moral sensibilities with his plainspoken bluster about "the axis of evil." But last week, U.S. unilateralism struck an especially sensitive part of Europeans' anatomy: their pocket books. In a decision that seems directly to contradict the free-market gospel that is America's chief political export, Bush imposed protectionist tariffs of 8% to 30% on foreign steel...
According to Pomerantz, for the past three years members of the group have paid entirely out of pocket the cost of going to Washington for what they call “March Storm...
...plot of Time Machine revolves around the trials of distracted professor Alexander Hartdegan (Guy Pearce). Pleasantly bopping along with his trusty pocket watch in turn-of-the-century New York, Hartdegan becomes obsessed with changing the past after his fiancée dies moments after their betrothal. With all the energy of his angst, he builds—yes, that’s right—a time machine. But Hartdegan learns that the past cannot be changed, and consequently decides to check out what the future holds. A few plot twists later and we’re 800 centuries...
...economist, Joanna, a demure Southern belle tired of waiting for her beau to propose, ditches him and decides to start her life as an independent woman with $45,000 in her pocket in exchange for her eggs. Her pushy friend Deborah decides to donate because she wants to go to Venice and egg donation seems to her a well-thought-out financial scheme. This leads to a hijacked ovary and to theses completed in Venice, along with other characteristically thrilling scenarios...