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...NICE needed? Shouldn't you get the drugs you need when you are sick, regardless of cost? All health-care systems are facing the problem of finite resources and almost infinite demand. And all health-care systems have implicitly if not explicitly adopted some form of cost control. In the U.S. you do it by not providing health care to some people. We are best known [for looking] at a new drug, device or diagnostic technique to see whether the increment in the cost of that treatment is worth the increment in the health gain. (See pictures of health care...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission has now received applications for 26 new reactors. If all goes well, the first could come online around 2016. The first problem is, scientists believe we need to slash emissions now, in order to get back to 1990 emissions levels by 2020, and there's no way new nuclear plants can even make a dent in the problem. Even if the industry's backers got their wish of 45 new plants by 2030, that would barely replace the aging plants that are scheduled for decommissioning...
...problem is that Fortress follows that haymaker with another and another, until you realize Maria is adept at just one kind of punch. A few of these two-to-three-minute wraths ("Louie" and "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked") are tuneful enough to stick with you, but they don't do much emotionally, and they all end up feeling numbingly similar, like fury masquerading as fun. As the album chugs on, it becomes clear that Maria hasn't quite figured out what she'd like to say to the world--"I know I'm always...
...most provocative aspect of his proposal is to focus on students in grades 3 through 5. Homelessness is growing sharply among kids at that critical age, when much of their educational foundation is set, Cash says. His aim: to thwart illiteracy and clear other learning roadblocks early, so the problem "won't migrate into middle and high school." Students will remain on campus year-round. "I don't see that there's anything better in the summertime in their neighborhoods," he notes. The school would cost up to $50,000 a day to operate--three times the cost...
...from human rights groups. One such activist, Tim Peters, who has visited this region in the past, thinks the two American TV journalists were trying to report on the plight of stateless orphans, the offspring of trafficked North Korean women repatriated back to the North. "It's a mushrooming problem," says Peters, who notes that authorities have been making it harder for foreign journalists to cover the refugee issue there since the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics. He and others like him counsel journalists about the perils of interviewing defectors and navigating the border. People "unfamiliar with the terrain...