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...griping about it, teams aren't necessarily helping. Some teams that are facing the prospect of blackouts haven't even lowered their ticket prices to entice fans. In Jacksonville, for example, the average general-admission ticket costs $57.34, a 3.7% increase from 2008, according to Team Marketing Report. The average premium seat now costs $229.17, a 15% increase over the previous year. And local network affiliates aren't necessarily upset that they have to sometimes air a different game, since more competitive teams playing can actually translate to better ratings. (Read "The NFL's Huge Linemen: Healthier Than You Think...
...McKinsey's report, which was completed as part of nearly $15 million worth of work for the Department of Health this year, also called for a recruitment freeze within the next two years and for a drop in medical-school admissions, according to the Health Service Journal. It said savings of up to $5 billion a year could be made by improving staff productivity, while more than $3 billion could be saved on external contracts with waste-disposal companies, food suppliers and other contractors. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Even if such promises are upheld, experts say, the NHS faces a funding crisis in the coming years. One recent report by the NHS Confederation, an independent membership body for the organizations that make up the NHS, found that even if the NHS's budget were increased 5% each year until 2011, rising costs would lead to a real-terms reduction in funding of some $15 billion over that period. "More with less" may be the management consultant's old adage, but with health-care systems around the globe under strain, citizens and politicians alike may have to adjust their...
...Congress on Sept. 9, for fear of being caught on camera applauding any health-care initiatives. "There are a lot of freaked-out moderate and swing-district Democrats who are now gun-shy, regardless of what is in the bill," says Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. "The question might be how much a bill would have to be shrunk to get a majority of 218 votes, and if they do shrink it enough, do they lose liberals on the other side? Quite simply, they have a disaster on their hands...
...blotchy laterite, and sandstone temples that speak little of Angkor's former grandeur and its golden spires. There's no hint of the regal festivals that once took place right here, viewed from this same vantage by mighty kings beneath parasols of red silk. But there is an eyewitness report of life at the gilded Angkor court. In fact, it is the only one: Zhou Daguan's A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People...