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There are millions who bear the marks of membership--the zipper scar down the center of the chest, another long scar worming along the inside of the leg where the tubing was stripped out to jury-rig the heart's new plumbing. (Over the years I have had two multiple-bypass operations, done in the same hospital where yours was performed. My last operation was 11 years ago. I played squash last night for an hour...
...Vice President who helped topple Ferdinand Marcos by deciding not to run for the presidency in 1986, which would have split the opposition challenge to the strongman; in San Francisco. Instead, Laurel, who came from a prominent political clan, became Corazon Aquino's running mate. After Marcos tried to rig the elections and was forced into exile, Laurel served as Aquino's Vice President from...
That's the way Congress runs it. They rig it, which is why 44 million people have no health insurance, why tens of millions who do have insurance don't have a clue what it covers until it's too late, and why you pay more for your prescription drugs than do people anywhere else in the industrialized world (see following story). Worst of all, the biggest losers in the health-care lottery are middle-income folks and the working poor, who are least able to afford to pay for medical services. In fact, if you are uninsured...
Workers, however, managed to rig a gantry system to lower the five-ton units—described by Loesch as “late ’80s, early ’90s technology”—into the basement...
...change. In Shell's case, the firm was shaken by two scandals in quick succession: the execution in 1995 of Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who vigorously contested Shell's oil operations in Nigeria, and the company's plans that same year to sink the Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. Both sparked huge international protests and boycott calls that led to a change of management and a complete revamp of Shell's ethical standards and operating behavior. Disaster is also behind Total's ethical epiphany. In December 1999, when the oil tanker Erika sank off Brittany, spewing...