Word: reformer
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...that the stock market is overwrought and that down is the only sensible direction to head. Sure, individual companies have been quick to bounce lower based on bad news. Both insurance outfits and financial firms lost ground on Tuesday thanks to two big events - the passage of a health-reform bill by a key Senate committee and a Goldman Sachs downgrade by an influential banks analyst. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...Gist: As members of Congress vote on controversial health-care-reform legislation, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has analyzed census data to provide a closer look at the people without health insurance in the U.S. Its report, focused on people younger than age 65, found 45.7 million "nonelderly" uninsured people in the U.S. last year (including the elderly, the number of uninsured was 46.3 million). Low-income adults without dependent children - who generally do not qualify for government programs like Medicaid - were hit hardest. Despite heated rhetoric on the issue, immigrants are not driving the problem...
None of this is occurring in a vacuum, says Samuel Casey Carter, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Center for Education Reform. "For more than 30 years, the Catholic Church has been supporting the public-school system, educating children that many said were uneducable," Carter says. "When these schools are closing at [a rate of] 100 to 200 a year, no matter how small they are, that ends up putting a massive burden on an already burdened public-school infrastructure." As he sees it, urban Catholic-school closures dump students back into a system that is ill-prepared to educate...
...What surprised you about the communities you spent time in? I was caught off-guard by the level of hostility to immigration reform in many of these communities and by how concerned many are by taxes - they believe taxes are too high. But I was also caught off-guard by how pleasant an experience it turned out to be, the personable warmth that greeted me in many cases...
...China marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PRC and the 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening policies, there are countless examples of how the country has changed over the decades. In the sphere of foreign media coverage, perhaps the most obvious came last week, when 300 news executives arrived in Beijing for the country's first World Media Summit, held Oct. 8 through Oct. 10. President Hu Jintao addressed the gathering, saying China would "safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news organizations and reporters and facilitate foreign media coverage of China...