Word: rationalizes
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...Scrabble here is not a game at all," says Patrice Jeanneret, the Swiss president of the Fédération Internationale de Scrabble Francophone, "it's a major sport." Scrabble sets can be purchased on virtually every street corner, and mastering the game is much encouraged in the country's French language schools. The national Scrabble federation enjoys the active support of the government. But it is the palpable passion of the Senegalese for the game that surprises many foreigners. Don't tell a Senegalese host that you consider Scrabble a pastime for a relaxed evening of socializing; they...
...dusty plain in northeastern Uganda, two women have come to blows. One shrieks as the other shoves. A volunteer from the World Food Program (WFP) has called one of them forward to collect an emergency food-aid ration, but both women want it. "They have the same name," explains local administrator Teko John Bosco...
...laughs uncomfortably and scans the teeming plain. More than 2,000 residents of this parish, Lokali, have come to collect food aid on a hot Saturday in May, and though the crowds have dwindled as the sun sinks and people drag or carry home their sacks - a month's ration of mostly corn, with some beans - many recipients remain. They stand or sit in groups, waiting for food if they haven't yet been called, and arguing over how to divide the rations they've received. At the center with the food stash, police clutch assault rifles to scare...
Zenios's conclusions arrive amidst mounting debate over whether Medicare, the U.S. government health plan for seniors, ought to use cost-effectiveness analysis in determining coverage of procedures. Nearly all other industrial nations - including Canada, Britain and the Netherlands - ration health care based on cost-effectiveness and the $50,000 threshold. Medicare, on the other hand, decides whether to pay for new technology based on whether a treatment is "medically necessary and appropriate." But as health care expenses rise and entitlement programs grow fiscally strapped - at least one part of Medicare is now expected to be bankrupt by 2019 - more...
...French online media commentator David Abiker, Stress is "a modern work of art in its own right," worthy of the son of legendary filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Stress clearly evokes groundbreaking films such as La Haine, Man Bites Dog, and Clockwork Orange. Yet for the French daily Libération, "it's above all an absence of point of view that remains." Worse, laments Le Monde, far from dispelling clichés about the banlieue, the video leaves one feeling that the filmmakers "have ended up joining those they wish to denounce...