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...security situation [which] manifests itself in armed robberies. We've got the challenge of corruption [and] bringing people to justice in a timely fashion. Roads are the priority of the majority of the Liberian people, because they cannot get their crops to market. And we have a capacity problem. It will take some time. (Read: "Rebuilding Liberia...
...sounds kind of painful. But fear not, she assured me. They are designed to keep men comfortable and keep their precision parts cooler. "That area of a man is meant to be 1º colder than the rest of the body to optimize fertility," she said. Fertility is not my problem, I said. "It'll also give you a perkier rear end," she said. I agreed to test a sample in September...
Perhaps an even more pressing problem in the context of health reform is the risk of overutilization of services. According to a 2006 report from the federal Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, just the presence of a doctor-owned heart hospital in a community increases the rate of cardiac surgery by 6% among Medicare beneficiaries. The upshot, according to a House staffer involved in health reform, is that "people are getting things they probably don't need." Plus, says the staffer, "the community hospitals go to war, bulk up their own specialty centers and all of a sudden you see these...
...Olympic Committee (USOC) announced on July 8 that it had signed an agreement with Comcast to form the U.S. Olympic Network, which will provide year-round coverage of Olympic sports. According to the USOC, the network will launch sometime after the 2010 Vancouver Games. One problem: the U.S. Olympic Network could compete with NBC, which is paying $2.2 billion to broadcast the 2010 and 2012 Olympics. The network accounts for roughly half of the IOC's global broadcast-rights fees, and NBC will surely be among the bidders for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics. Plus, NBC wanted the USOC...
...agency plans to begin issuing quarterly "pulse reports" to keep pace with the issue, counting people who have fallen through society's cracks is no easy task. The Obama Administration's $787 billion economic-stimulus package allots $1.2 billion for combating homelessness, but without a full understanding of the problem's scope - and with the unemployment rate creeping toward double digits - the struggle to contain it will continue...