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...Northeast Utilities. Kudos to them for their selfless devotion. The role of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should be investigated. Where can people go if the regulatory agency and utilities companies collude? How can we protect ourselves? It is time for a shake-up of the NRC. SUDIP GUHAROY Rancho Mirage, California...
...result, across the country facilities like Sierra Tucson have been forced to reinvent themselves. In 1994 the Hartford Institute of Living, in Connecticut, merged with Hartford Hospital to avoid extinction. The nonprofit giants, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota, have both increased the amount of financial aid they offer to needy patients. McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusets, a 185-year-old Harvard-affiliated facility, long ago famous as a haven for addled and addicted Brahmins, has seen its average patient stay drop from 57 days to 14 since 1989 and now fills...
...vast majority of Americans at any one moment, the deMeurerses weren't sick and didn't expect to get sick. Alan signed at 27, Christy at 32; their two children were young and healthy. This was insurance, something for a rainy day. They selected a medical practice--the Rancho Canyon Medical Group in Temecula, California--from a roster of those in Health Net's network. "We just wanted some basic protection," Alan says. "We were all very healthy people...
Christy petitioned her medical group, Rancho Canyon, for a different oncologist. By now the deMeurerses had decided to get the treatment any way they could. They made plans to begin raising money through appeals to friends and the public. "As grateful as we were," Alan says, "it was absolutely humiliating to have...
...Room A-2, a bilingual class, 30 first-graders, all Latinos, belt out their favorite song, El Rancho Grande. In the book corner: Los Tres Cochinitos--The Three Little Pigs. On the wall: the seasons, the months, the days, in both Spanish and English. In a mock interview, teacher Marina Williams asks Fabiola, a gap-toothed charmer, "Senora Presidente, what should children do in school?" Fabiola shoots back, "Aprender ingles!"--learn English. But one small boy has another idea: "Bailar!"--dance. The teacher takes the hint, winding up the day with a session of "la quebradita," a sort of Mexican...