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...There is a real opportunity for substantial savings in the care of patients with serious illness,” Fisher said. “We spend twice as much with no gain in survival...
...those networks are four years old, and McCain has yet to excite the same level of grass-roots activity that Democrats are exhibiting. Catching up won't be easy. Tom and Mary Bashore, for instance, estimate that they spend as many as 25 hours a week volunteering for Obama. "It's amazing to be part of it," Tom says of the coming primary in Pennsylvania. "We're setting aside all of next Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday for the campaign. They've got a lot planned...
...grouses that his Mexican clients don't "reinvest in their companies or improve the quality of their materials like the Chinese." Latin America's bane, Oppenheimer suggests, is "peripheral blindness"--measuring itself against its past instead of its contemporary competitors while neglecting critical investment factors like crime (Latin businesses spend more than twice as much on security as Asian firms) and education (Latin America prepares "too many psychologists, not enough engineers"). Washington, he writes, is fecklessly complicit: "The Bush Administration, absurdly, [has] closed its mind to any plan that would include a greater U.S. financial commitment to growth in Latin...
Listen to Adam Green’s latest album “Sixes & Sevens” and you’ll spend 48 minutes inside the head of an intelligent rambler with a penchant for rhyming and a short attention span. With his tongue lodged firmly in his cheek, Green’s latest effort is neither earth-shattering nor disappointing. Green, whose career plodded steadily forward after he entered the anti-folk scene in 1998, has recently garnered a lot of face time because of his appearance on the “Juno” soundtrack with former Moldy...
...bombastic extravagance of modern day parties . . . such as on the TV show ‘My Super Sweet Sixteen,’” Hess says. “These parties with 16-year-olds are decadent, and it’s kind of sickening that you would spend so much money on one night. But it’s interesting to remember that these kinds of events were common in the 18th century.” The porcelain figurines themselves seem to represent the connections between these two worlds of luxury, with the intricate Baroque objects placed before...