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...Mark my words," Senator Max Baucus, one of the Democratic drafters of the legislation, said last week of the historic Medicare-reform bill, "seniors will see that the benefits of this bill are extraordinary." Perhaps, but here are six issues that could generate debate when the elderly begin living under the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Questions About The New Medicare Bill | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...Department of Health and Human Services certifies their safety, which so far it has refused to do. As a result, critics say, you can expect drug prices to go up. According to the Consumers Union, a senior who spent $2,318 a year for drugs before Medicare reform could end up paying $2,911 under the new plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Questions About The New Medicare Bill | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

DIABETES EPIDEMIC We've never known more about treating diabetics, yet their numbers are soaring. What's needed now: conscientious personal regimens and insurance reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Dec. 8, 2003 | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

When she heard she was about to be arrested, Shirin Ebadi was afraid. It was June 2000, and Ebadi, a human-rights lawyer in Tehran, had been collecting evidence that Iran's hard-line mullahs were behind a series of vigilante attacks on reform-minded intellectuals. Among the evidence: a videotaped admission she had obtained from a former vigilante. This was dangerous information. As a law professor and activist, Ebadi understood the risks; she could be dragged off to jail by the Islamic regime, or assaulted herself. "Fear, like hunger, is an instinct," she says. "It comes whether you like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Woman's Way | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

...Internet, but claimed victim Bernd-Jürgen Brandes was a willing participant. Cannibalism is not a crime in Germany, so Meiwes is charged with murder for sexual satisfaction and disturbing the peace of the dead. Showdown Time? ITALY Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government approved a media-reform law that critics say is tailor-made for the television mogul's business interests. The latest piece of controversial legislation would overturn a court decision forcing one of Berlusconi's three main TV channels to go to satellite, but could be rejected by President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

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