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...despite the obvious urgency, little will change unless more can be done to lure young docs back to primary care - and that means prime financial incentives. The average medical-school graduate carries a six-figure loan debt, so you don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out why so many people are opting to be radiologists scoring $500,000 a year instead of general practitioners pocketing $150,000. Over the summer, President Obama announced the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program, which erases big chunks of debt for medical students who do 10 years of primary-care...
...gestures toward recognizing Israel's sovereignty until such a freeze is imposed. Deadlock. At the same time, though, there is the rarest of Middle East commodities - some actual, tangible good news - beginning to bubble up on the West Bank. The situation there is improving dramatically. The Israelis and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad have been cooperating on the removal of checkpoints and other economic impediments; the economy is growing at a 7% clip. U.S. Lieut. General Keith Dayton has supervised the training of an effective Palestinian security force; crime and terrorist acts are down significantly. (On the other hand, Hamas...
...being king once were not enough for Japan's former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi - who once serenaded President George W. Bush with Elvis oldies at Graceland - the man with the coif and charisma of Japan's most popular postwar leader is back for an encore: this time as Ultraman King...
...Koizumi, 67, served five years as Prime Minister, from 2001 to 2006, earning a reputation as a reformist who reinvigorated the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the 2005 election around the issue of privatization of the national postal system. Now lending his voice to the iconic Ultraman King character, the elder of the clan on the television series Ultraman, Koizumi will take his leadership to another level, in film and outer space, with lines like "Rise again, warriors of the Land of Light! For peace and justice!" Such is a rallying cry Koizumi's old party could probably use about...
...With popularity on par with the Batman character in the U.S., Ultraman is a silver-and-red-clad superhero with buglike eyes and a reputation for countless victories. Actors and comedians - not former Prime Ministers - usually perform the voices for characters in the series' live-action or animation films. And at first, Koizumi was no exception; he originally turned down the role, in which the Ultraman King delivers a rousing speech to the film's main characters. But Koizumi's 28-year-old son Shinjiro, a first-time Diet legislature member, persuaded his father to do it. Shinjiro, a longtime...