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...result of the findings, Gawande says, the U.K.'s National Health Service sent an alert to all of its hospitals, calling on them to use the surgical checklist. Five U.S. states - New York, Washington, North Carolina, South Carolina and Indiana - have endorsed it and plan to require hospitals...
...real estate development soared. Rural credit cooperatives backed away from entrepreneurial finance and morphed into "policy pawns and cashiers of local government." The government abandoned attempts to develop village-level democracy and instead strengthened the Communist Party in the villages. And finally, fiscal and administrative controls were centralized. The result: depressed income growth and slower growth in domestic consumption...
Those days in Tokyo underpin Geithner's current worldview. Remember: Japan went from boom to bust because a credit-fueled housing bubble burst. Sound familiar? The result was Japan's infamous Lost Decade of little to no economic growth. And it was, in part, the withdrawal of Japanese capital from the region that helped set off the Asian crisis in 1997 and '98 - when countries from Thailand to Russia to Indonesia to South Korea devalued their currencies and saw their economies crash. The lesson for Geithner was clear. "From my time in Japan and then dealing with the crisis...
...look at North Korea and our interaction with them over the last 20 years, they've had an amazing strategy and no power; we've had an amazing amount of power, very little strategy, and the result over 20 years has been about a tie." - On how a weak foe can frustrate a superpower (before a House Armed Services subcommittee, July...
Israeli military officials allege that at the start of the conflict, Hamas' commanders took refuge in the basement of Gaza's main hospital, Shifa, knowing that Israel would never risk the international outrage that would result from bombing a hospital. But Shifa's director, Dr. Hussain Ashaur, denied the allegation and allowed TIME to tour the basement, which was teeming with patients waiting for X-rays and ultrasounds. "Every room was busy with patients and doctors. It always is," said TIME's Azmy Keshawi...