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Such savings from high-deductible plans, however, are most likely short lived. A study by benefits-consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide found no correlation between high-deductible plans and companies with the lowest health-care costs. And a Rand Corp. report last week showed that people with such coverage more often forgo necessary care--which generally leads to greater expense later...
...been sending out free bottles, in the hope that they'll post their tasting notes online. But South Africa, too, is now facing a squeeze. The global wine glut has caused a drop in grape prices, and producers had to scramble to deal with a 50% appreciation in the rand between 2002 and 2005 that pushed them out of the sector in which they initially made their name: cheap and cheerful supermarket wines for the U.K. That hurts, but the glut's impact isn't as severe as it is in Australia or France. The South African solution has been...
Having spent our summers in America’s intellectual mecca, we thought readjusting to school would be easy, but it is always tough to leave Milwaukee. And for all you Rand McNallys out there who keep asking us where Milwaukee is, it’s the capital of Minnesota. Milwaukee’s a place where people actually care about learning, which is why every year the city sends us off to university with a “Greatest Minds” parade. We know the mayor meant well, but it took us over seventeen days...
...Rand, like, totally change your life too? Meet other anti-altruistic spirits at the Harvard Objectivist Club’s kick-off event, featuring a lecture entitled “The Fountainhead and the Spirit of Youth.” The illustrious B. John Bayer will speak...
...Israeli attack on Iran is fraught with as many potential pitfalls as an American strike would be. Seth Jones, a Middle East analyst for RAND, has extensively studied possible Israeli military operations against Iran and none of them leave him particularly sanguine. Israel does have conventional missiles it could launch from land or from ships and diesel-powered submarines, but their capabilities would be limited for this type of mission in terms of range and accuracy. The most likely weapons Israel would use, Jones believes, would be its American-made F-15 and F-16 warplanes that have "long-range...