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...pull off in the State of New York. New legislation that went into effect Sept. 1 - in the form of a radically changed power-of-attorney (POA) document - couldn't have come at a better time. "Financial abuse is one of the fastest growing areas of elder abuse," says Andrea Lowenthal, an elder-law and estate-planning attorney in New York. "Older people are a growing segment of society and are among the most vulnerable, often because of their misplaced trust." But if seniors are the prey, then they often choose their predators - people they've empowered...
...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...
...palpable. The final questioner simply asked, “Why aren’t you the Secretary of Health and Human Services?” “I used to wonder about that and worry about that,” Dean said. “But I must say I couldn’t have said any of the kinds of things I said tonight if I were.” Though Dean lambasted the Democrats’ attempt to include Republicans in the process when they weren’t going to vote for a Democrat-sponsored bill...
What did The Crimson have to say for itself? A bureaucratic mix-up, of course...
...Americans, a decrease from 24% just eight months earlier. The shift was most striking among conservative Republicans - in March 2001, 40% viewed Muslim Americans unfavorably, but by November, that number had plummeted by more than half to 19%. In the wake of the attacks, Americans were also reluctant to say that Islam encourages violence more than other faiths; only one-quarter agreed with that statement in March 2002. But by the time the war in Iraq began one year later, that view had changed dramatically, with 44% of Americans willing to associate Islam with violence...