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...socialized medicine, the one-payer system used in the U.K. It's already here, he says. It's just hugely inefficient, exemplified by many of the 47million uninsured turning to emergency rooms for care. The other piece of it, Medicare and Medicaid, is going broke as the ratio of retirees to wage earners rises dramatically with the aging of 77million baby boomers...
...told the audience during his address, entitled “Global Climate Disruption.” Holdren, who served on Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Science and Technology, said that the U.S. should lead the formation of a new set of global standards that would reduce the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to economic output in the short-term and develop tradeable rights to emissions based on population in the long-term. The Kyoto Protocol, which commits nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, will expire in 2012. The U.S. has not ratified the agreement...
...decades ago, this 100:1 drug-quantity ratio appealed to legislators who believed crack was instantly addictive and caused violent behavior. And the sentencing commission worked these dramatically different drug thresholds into its otherwise nuanced sentencing guidelines, which add jail time for aggravating factors like the presence of a firearm and reduce it for such things as acceptance of guilt...
...revising its guidelines, the federal commission in some ways is simply catching up with the states. Amid almost universal criticism of the federal government's 100:1 ratio, only 13 states still make a legal distinction between crack and powder cocaine, and none of these states applies as harsh a ratio as 100:1. But according to Douglas Berman, a professor and sentencing expert at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law, prosecutors have an extraordinary amount of discretion in deciding whether a case gets tried in state or federal court. "Ironically," he says, "the more lenient a state...
...morality of sex-selection abortion: In both India and China, much-cherished sons in rural areas have been growing up to find a shortage of available wives. The U.N. report links the trend to increased violence among frustrated men as well as the trafficking women for sex. "Sex ratio imbalances only lead to far-reaching imbalances in the society at large," says Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the U.N. Population Fund's executive director...