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Back home, my sadness turned to joy. A quick search of online ticket sellers revealed that a Legends Suite ticket can be had for about $100 on some nights. So by a twist of logic, I had not only soaked the Yankees for $27, I had tripped on a great recession value. The New York Yankees: what a bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Beat the Yankees with Your Stomach | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

Whether the Israelis would be ready to live with Iran maintaining a measure of "breakout capacity," albeit under a far tighter inspection regime, remains to be seen. Israeli officials have in the past insisted on a quick and complete end to uranium enrichment in Iran, failing which they'll consider military action - although Netanyahu has undertaken to refrain from attacking Iran without first consulting Washington. But Iran is unlikely simply to climb down. It will likely show flexibility in seeking a formula that addresses Western concerns over its nuclear intentions, but on its own terms. What either side will offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Missile Test: A Message to Obama | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...portrayal may have been a caricature, but it was also taking a toll. People who traveled with her from the earliest days in Iowa say she was a quick study, receptive to feedback on what was working and what wasn't. She began talking less about the country's problems and more about its promise. By the time the New Yorker parodied the parody of her as a machine-gun-toting revolutionary, she was reintroducing herself at the Democratic Convention as a wife, a mother, a sister and a daughter, listing why she loved her country and why her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning of Michelle Obama | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...Miami's cost problem isn't a medical supply-and-demand issue. In fact, it's just the opposite, says Linda Quick, president of the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association. As a result of the deluge of doctors and hospitals that have moved to the retiree mecca since the 1960s and '70s, chasing the lucrative Medicare business as well as the area's population boom, South Florida has an "excess capacity of health-care providers and institutions," Quick notes. And to make sure they all get a piece of the action, they've created a wasteful and ill-coordinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Cure for Miami's Soaring Health-Care Costs? | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...their own assets as self-insurance). As a result, those doctors are often more concerned with covering their rear-ends against malpractice, by ordering excessive tests and treatment, than with providing the most efficient care. "We've seen too large an increase in defensive medicine here," says Quick. (See pictures of Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Cure for Miami's Soaring Health-Care Costs? | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

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