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...Skyward soar the whirling demons...
...upshot has been a furious explosion -- over age, not geography. Thirty- year-old males watched their premiums soar 170%, according to the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, while men aged 60 enjoyed a 45% cut. The rate hike for 30-year-old women was 82%, and women twice their age saw rates slashed by a quarter. Mutual of Omaha, the only insurer to continue extending coverage to New York individuals after the plan went into effect, watched with frustration as 43% of its customers dropped their health coverage and the average age of its clientele edged upwards from 41.5 years...
Addressing the Faculty, Rudenstine said he expects the task force to provide estimates to guide the University in decreasing benefits spending as health care costs soar nation wide...
Will the real IBM please stand up? In recent weeks the struggling computer giant has stunned Wall Street with surprisingly strong first-quarter profits and has watched its stock price soar. Along with those gains, Big Blue has rolled out lines of powerful business computers that the company hopes will help to spearhead its comeback over the long haul; the versatile large and midsize machines can handle anything from banking transactions to running factory floors. "I think the worst is behind IBM," says Richard Zwetchkenbaum, who watches the firm for International Data Corp. John Coyle, a computer analyst for Standard...
...breed besides crime is anger and despair. If we continue as we are, we'll lose another generation of young people." And then, he adds, as public support erodes because the nonworking or underemployed residents are politically powerless, "the projects will fade away and the number of homeless will soar even more." That scenario would be hell for everyone, not just the poor...