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...there this past holiday weekend. There will actually be 55 delegates at stake, more than in most state primaries, so it won't be meaningless. And it will be unique, because Puerto Rican politics always are. "Politics is our national pastime," says Miguel Lausell, a commonwealther power broker who ran Ted Kennedy's Puerto Rico primary campaign in 1980, and now supports Clinton. "One thing you have to say about Puerto Ricans, we love to vote...
...margin has expanded. As a New York Senator, Clinton already represents many of the 4 million Puerto Ricans who live on the mainland; her husband was always popular on the island, and even commuted the sentences of 16 members of a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group when she ran for Senate. Puerto Ricans pay more attention to local politics than national politics, but they certainly know Hillary Clinton; by contrast, Obama has been running biographical radio ads on the island this week. "We have a huge mountain to overcome," Figueroa says. "But we're going to compete...
...latest in a series of innovations that have made the Wii the jewel of the gaming world. Nintendo has sold more than 24 million units of the $250 console, widely expected to be an also-ran to Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation when the three machines were introduced a few years ago. The magic is in its handheld motion sensors, which let players duplicate the action of throwing a ball or swinging a club or racquet. Wii bumped up Nintendo's sales 73%, to $16 billion, last year. It is outselling rivals...
...that. Parents object to the mandatory nature of the shots-and the fact that their child's access to education hinges on compliance with the immunization regulations. There's also the simple reality that the illnesses kids are being inoculated against are rarely seen anymore. When diseases like polio ran free in the early 1900s, the clamor was less about why we needed vaccines than about why there weren't more of them. Once you've seen your neighbor's toddler become paralyzed, you're a lot more likely to worry that the same thing will happen to yours...
...Americans who would otherwise die of renal failure while waiting for an organ transplant. It is also the one procedure that Medicare has covered unconditionally since 1972 despite rapid and sometimes expensive innovations in its administration. To tally the cost-effectiveness of such innovations Zenios and his colleagues ran a computer analysis of more than half a million patients who underwent dialysis, adding up costs and comparing that data to treatment outcomes. Considering both inflation and new technologies in dialysis, they arrived at $129,000 as a more appropriate threshold for deciding coverage. "That means that if Medicare paid...