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...supply side of the health-care system unchanged, rural hospitals will still have to support themselves by selling medicine unnecessarily. A bigger concern is local corruption. Cai Renhua of the China Institute for Health Economics recently helped run an experimental cooperative program in 10 counties similar to the scheme planned by Beijing. He found that peasants gladly contributed to the fund?as long as professors from Beijing were the collectors. When local officials showed up, "the peasants assumed the money was going to their wine funds" and refused to pay, he says...
...otherwise all too rare at Harvard, the waning days of senior year are meant to be a celebration of the culmination of four years of hard work, long hours, response papers and problem sets. But this spring, some seniors charge, a disappointing Senior Soiree and a controversial ticket allocation scheme for a Red Sox-Yankees baseball game have brought more gloom than gaiety to the conclusion of the Class of 2003’s college careers...
...Trding" (SIC), wired another $109,500 from the UAE Exchange Centre in Dubai to an account at Sun Trust Bank held jointly by Al Shehhi and 9/11 hijack team leader Mohammed Atta, while both men were attending Huffman Aviation school in Venice, Florida. Atta, who conceived the hijacking-attack scheme while living in Hamburg, Germany, flew American Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Al-Shehhi, a member of Atta's Hamburg al-Qaeda cell, crashed United Flight 175 into the World Trade Center's south tower. Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar spearheaded...
...think worrying about cracking into Group I should cause far less anxiety than watching another ninth inning collapse by the Red Sox bullpen. In all seriousness, I’d say it’s a toss-up for what matters more in the grand scheme of things—grades or sports teams. Sox fans subject themselves yearly to heartache, while students subject themselves to, well, subjects...
Down by four goals, Kleinfelder made a switch in her defensive scheme, double teaming the other team’s attacker. Having an extra player in the defensive end gave the advantage to Harvard—the Crimson clogged its end, limiting shots and cutting back goals, as well as forcing more turnovers...