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...consequence of the state's artificially low property taxes, cemented in place by the infamous Proposition 13 passed in 1978-but most states are now being squeezed as the Federal Government cuts spending on everything from cops to Medicaid. The public employees have used their political clout to protect unaffordable fringe benefits and antiquated work rules, even as employees in the private sector have been forced to accept reductions in health plans and pensions. "The question is, Is the state being run for the benefit of its citizens or its employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reform Action Figure | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

Though the ban on single-sex organizations was originally instituted to protect women, according to the subcommittee, the policy is not meeting its original goals...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Club Approval Process May See Overhaul | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

Sitting back to protect its two-score lead, the Big Red limited Harvard’s offensive activity to the blue line for the most part and descended on the crease en masse to secure what few loose rebounds there were...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cornell's Defense Stymies M. Hockey | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...psychological wounds of war, such as depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome. In any other war, the most grievously wounded men at Landstuhl would have been killed, having bled to death on the battlefield or succumbed in a hospital to wounds so severe that their armor could not protect them and doctors could not save them. In World War II, 1 in 3 wounded soldiers died; in Vietnam, 1 in 4. In the Iraq war, the rate is 1 in 8. That remarkable statistic is due in part to the doctors and nurses at Landstuhl, who've transformed what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergency Room | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

WHAT ABOUT WHEN YOU ISSUE A WARNING AND THEN NOTHING HAPPENS? Sometimes the precaution stops the plot. It is like a vaccine. If I tell you to take a vaccine to protect yourself and you take it and nothing happens, do you say, "Well, I shouldn't have taken the vaccine because I never got sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Michael Chertoff | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

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