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...know every inch of a picture by heart and it can still be a mystery. That is the secret of the Mona Lisa, a portrait so enigmatic that even endless duplication can?t make you sick of it. It?s even truer of Georges Seurat?s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884, a canvas that everyone knows but no one entirely possesses...
...still play with the big boys?" There's no other way to find out except to go out there and do it. That's why we're big believers in a part-time job. You see that you can do it: you can handle a sick patient, you can handle a cranky client. Then you can expand to full time...
...election, in 2007, the government says it will force through almost €10 billion in savings by cutting back on reimbursements for visits to specialists, favoring generic rather than brand-name drugs (per capita, the French are the world's most heavily medicated population), and cracking down on liberal sick leave. On top of that, the government wants to haul in another €5 billion in contributions. Beginning next month, patients will pay a single nonrefundable euro for every consultation with a doctor. Doubts have been voiced - even within the government - over whether these measures will be enough...
...Ulla Schmidt announced this summer that for the first time in 10 years, Germany's public-health system was no longer in the red. The number of doctor visits was down 10% for the first quarter compared to the same period in 2003, as were working days lost to sick leave. Britain may be a magnet for private surgeons, but for British patients it's no promised land. A relative paucity of practicing physicians - 2.1 per 1,000 people in 2002 as opposed to 3.3 in Germany and France - means long waiting periods. But things used to be much worse...
...Chambers broke 10 sec. and eventually went as low as 9.87. He was a favorite for gold in Athens until he was banned from the Olympics for life after testing positive last year to the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone. And Shirvington? He won't be in Athens either, having made himself sick trying to achieve a time that appears to be beyond his body's natural limits...