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...Rankings Call it Southern hospitality. Patients in the South and the Midwest gave higher hospital satisfaction scores than Americans in the rest of the country. Of the 40 largest hospital-referral regions in the country, here are the best and worst, according to the proportion of patients in each region who gave their hospitals a score...
Accepting Blame Why do we hear so many Americans blaming their government for the financial crisis [Oct. 20]? Observing from the southern tip of Africa, with my little salary of $1,500 a month, I cannot help but ask when will Americans themselves accept responsibility for the problem and recognise that they have been living beyond their means for much too long? Are you adult, responsible people, or should your government also wash your ears in the morning? Henri du Plessis, CAPE TOWN
...Taliban's stockpiles. "Who would have reasons to hold on to a devalued stock? People who have mischief in mind," says Costa. He believes that the Taliban is saving the opium for lean times. He says the hundreds of Afghans working for the U.N. drug office in southern Afghanistan have recently found notices posted by the Taliban advising farmers not to grow opium this year. A similar edict by the Taliban during its last year in power, in 2001, resulted in tight supplies and soaring prices on the world market. "This is classic market manipulation," Costa says...
...keep that from happening, the Palestinian forces will be deployed in the southern and western sides of Hebron, away from direct contact with the settlers. But lately, Jewish extremists have been straying from their gated outposts and attacking Palestinian shepherds and families harvesting the olive groves. "We're not worried," says Gen. Diab Ali, commander of Palestinian security forces in the West Bank. "We are counting on the Israeli army to control the settlers." One senior Israeli officer concurs. "The Palestinians won't be close to the settlements. They'll be confronting Hamas, and this is in our best interests...
...Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California; national director of communications for McCain's 2000 presidential...