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When Congress passed the stimulus bill in February, it came as both good news and bad news to the Obama White House. The good: never before had an Administration had so much money to spend on voters in need - to rebuild public buildings, save jobs, weatherize homes and fund community health centers. The bad: rarely has the passage of a measure been accompanied by such skepticism about the government's ability to spend the money wisely or well. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...think this is something that can take place in primary medical settings as well as school settings," Borowsky says. She believes we can make a difference - even save lives - just by asking teens one simple question: "What do you want to do when you get older...
...demonstrated by each of the suspected terrorists in your article. This is a side one rarely sees but that shouldn't be forgotten: misguided choices are often the result of personal traumas. It is an unfortunate but necessary irony that this humanity is then preyed on by interrogators to save innocent lives and bring more criminals to justice. Ahmed Khalil, LONDON...
...several whacks at waste in energy and health care. His stimulus had more than $20 billion for energy-efficiency measures designed to slash electricity use in low-income homes, on military bases and in all kinds of government buildings, while his fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles are expected to save billions of gallons of gasoline; he's also providing government financing for electric cars, and his cash-for-clunkers program is another assault on gas guzzlers. The stimulus also included $19 billion for computerizing the medical industry, which could reduce duplicative tests and office visits, plus $1.1 billion for "comparative...
...general rise of green. But in California and the Pacific Northwest, where state legislatures decoupled utility profits from sales volumes, electricity use has been flat. Instead of an incentive to sell more power and build more generating plants, the utilities had an incentive to help their customers save electricity and avoid the need for new generating plants. So that's what they did. Energy providers were much better than the government at influencing the behaviors of energy consumers. "That's what we need in health care," says Dr. Elliott Fisher of the Dartmouth Institute. "When providers get rewarded for volume...