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...find a way to plug most of the holes that invite fraud, doctors -- and patients -- are certain to devise new ways to cheat the system. Three years ago, consumers accounted for only 10% of all medical fraud cases, with savvy providers, doctors and other health-care professionals filing the snake's share of claims. Today consumers are behind one-third of all claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Healthy, Wealthy and Fraudulent | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail. 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.' It was the porch he begrudged them, not the snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrapped In White Linen | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Remember the temptation of Eve in Eden? Here's how it goes in one new version of Genesis. Eve: "Yeah, snake, I can eat of these trees, just not the tree of knowledge or the Almighty said I'd be knocked off." Snake: "Nah, sister, he's feeding you a line of bull. You won't die. The Almighty just knows that if you eat from the tree you'll be hipped to what's going down." Say what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diss Is the Word of the Lord | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...lack of competition may be only temporary. If the industry succeeds in shedding its snake-oil image, more upscale entrepreneurs are likely to rush in and take advantage by starting new channels. TV retailing won't make department stores obsolete just yet, but it might make a dent in the mall business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attention TV Shoppers | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

POLITICS: O'Connor v. "the Snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

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