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...PEOPLE DISPUTE THAT A WAY MUST BE FOUND to provide medical coverage for the more than 35 million Americans who have no insurance, and fewer still that the U.S. desperately needs at the same time to control the runaway growth of health-care costs (1991 total: $700 billion). The American College of Physicians has waded into this widening crisis with a dramatic plan for accomplishing those inherently contradictory goals. The society of 78,000 doctors has concluded that the only way to fix the U.S. health-care system is to set a budget and stick to it. Most surprising...
...more advertent, and morally organized. People invent stories to explore their own behavior and to imagine their own possibilities. Few moments in America's moral life have surpassed the soliloquy, product of Mark Twain's imagination, in which Huck Finn agonizes over what to do about turning over the runaway slave Jim to the white authorities. Huck ends by accepting the consequences of his decision not to do so: "All right, then, I'll go to hell...
Already overwhelmed by immigration problems and the runaway costs of unification, Kohl appeared to be losing control. The impression was reinforced by one of the worst waves of labor unrest in the postwar era. The strikes began early last week in the public sector, with transit, garbage, mail and hospital workers walking off their job in many cities around western Germany. Engineering and metal-industry workers followed, staging work stoppages and threatening a full-scale strike if their demands were not met. The issue is pay raises, and workers and employers remain far apart. The unrest, it would seem...
Though many scientists dismiss the notion of blowing up killer asteroids as a last-ditch attempt to find some role for nuclear weapons, they do think keeping an eye on runaway asteroids makes sense. This week, after several months of studying the issue, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will urge Congress to establish a tracking and detection system that could sound the alert if a big chunk of celestial rock starts heading this...
Clinton's training and education prescriptions clearly have the edge. To make his ambitious programs work, however, he would have to avoid pitfalls that have haunted the Federal Government's job-training efforts since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Such problems range from runaway costs to the difficulty of predicting what skills will be in demand five years in advance...