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...Should Canadians, who consider their public system sacrosanct, panic? Here's a primer on the main issues on the table...
President Bush says health savings accounts will expand medical coverage to the uninsured and help control soaring costs. But critics aren't so optimistic. Here's a primer on the key issues...
...Cold War: A New History (the Penguin Press; 333 pages), John Lewis Gaddis, the pre-eminent American scholar of the period, does indeed manage to make the old global standoff seem, for all its insanities, like a relatively coherent and well-managed struggle. In this brisk, useful primer on the period, he reminds us that containment, the decades-long American policy of confining Soviet ambitions abroad, though a dangerous game, was a highly successful one. "The world, I am quite sure, is a better place for that conflict having been fought in the way it was," he writes...
...cooperating and participating among her international peers, striving to fulfill the Olympic motto and ideal of “swifter, higher, stronger.”As we embark upon this New Year, there are many easy opportunities for pessimism and skepticism.The situation in Israel, with the impending passing of Primer Minister Ariel Sharon, may get worse before it gets better. There are wars raging, diseases spreading, and oppressive regimes enduring.In Turin, attendance will be lackluster, some skier will be caught doping, and possibly another round of judging will be exposed as corrupt. But let us enter 2006 with hope...
...Besides being a useful primer on business, the book also sheds light on bigger questions about China. For example, can its corruption be controlled? "At its core," McGregor writes, "Chinese society is all about self-interest. It is very strong on competition but very weak on cooperation." Likewise, he characterizes Chinese corporations as hopelessly static entities stocked with fawning employees and dictatorial bosses. Such findings may be discouraging, but they might just save you some costly heartache...