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There is an alternative theory about what the government's expectations are for getting taxpayer money back and perhaps in some cases even a profit on their investment. That theory is that the agencies investing the money have only a vague set of forecasts for returns and, under pain of death, could not supply a detailed accounting of predictions for how government investments will pay out. The process of stimulating the economy may, indeed, have no specific goals other than to move GDP back to the positive growth rate in the budget and stimulus bills and the recovery in employment...
...disclose exactly where taxpayer money is going and what the expectations are for that money to make its way back into the bank accounts of American citizens. The forecasts may be wrong the same way that most private enterprise forecasts are, but Americans would at least have a set of assumptions against which they could measure progress. The benefit of keeping people in the dark is that it pushes the day when accountability will become an issue into the future. That may make the process of governing easier, but it will eventually just make angry taxpayers angrier...
...half as long. So the simple solution to ensuring patient safety - and resident sanity - would appear to be reducing the length of their shifts, a plan endorsed by a lengthy Institute of Medicine (IOM) report in December 2008 that assessed the impact of resident fatigue and proposed a new set of guidelines restricting shifts to 16 continuous hours if no rest is granted, mandatory uninterrupted five-hour naps for longer work sessions, lighter workloads and more oversight from experienced physicians. (The current standards set in 2003 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, or ACGME, mandate 80-hour average...
Nasca is in the difficult position of helping set the rules for accredited residency programs in the U.S. ACGME held a conference in March to solicit the input of medical professionals and educators from around the globe, and in June it will host an event in Chicago in which 55 groups will present position papers on the subject. After that, an ACGME task force will meet every six weeks until the details of a new plan can be hammered...
More recently, Afghan security forces found a cache of Iranian-made explosives near the Bakhshabad Dam in Farah province, a $2.2 million coalition-sponsored project set to boost power and water supply in the area. Gen. Malham Pohanyar, chief of the West Region border police, says other comparable findings abound. He says his men gave chase last week to arms smugglers who detonated their load as they fled in the dark.However, he concedes there is lack of hard proof implicating the Tehran regime...