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...Moreover, freeway fracases over everything from neighborhood preservation to roadside billboards echo long-standing national conversations that reach back to our republic's dawn. Long before Ike's fountain pen in 1956 inscribed these red-roads into our Rand-McNally pages, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton sparred over how to balance democracy, freedom and commerce in American lives. Put another way, even as history's odometer this season rolls up the Interstates' 50th anniversary, these roads still take us on a multi-lane tour of our murkiest feelings about home and travel, the near and the distant, the here...
...even those with adequate medical coverage will have to wait a while to get the vaccine. "Doctors probably aren't willing to stock it until they are sure insurers are going to pay for it," says Dr. Cynthia Rand, a pediatrician at the Golisano Children's Hospital at the University of Rochester in New York. The next step is for an advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to decide whether to make the vaccine mandatory for girls in the U.S. and, if so, for which age groups. Research suggests the vaccine is most effective when...
...allegations are true, the men are simply not real Marines. The Marines went into Iraq with deliberate plans to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis, telling the locals they would find "no better friend" if they cooperated but "no worse enemy" if they did not. Seth Jones, a Rand counterinsurgency analyst, finds the involvement of the Marines in the scandal disturbing. "They have tended to be better able to understand counterinsurgency tactics and the importance of winning popular support--and not just kinetic operations," he says...
...fear of being blamed for declaring hostilities. But with government air raids and artillery barrages, Tiger suicide bombs and mine attacks, and executions on both sides, neither is keeping the peace. "The truce is still in place in theory," says Peter Chalk, a senior analyst at security specialist Rand. "But for all intents and purposes, it's back...
...their innate resistance to treatment carries a message for the rest of us as well. It requires almost a stroke of luck to enter a U.S. hospital and receive precisely the right treatment--no more, and no less. A landmark Rand Corp. study published in 2003 found that adults in the U.S. received, on average, just 54.9% of recommended care for their conditions. Average blood sugar was not measured regularly for 24% of diabetes patients. More than half of all people with hypertension did not have their blood pressure under control; one third of asthma patients eligible to get inhaled...