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...beholder - and Democrats and Republicans have very different ideas of how much money is required to guarantee prescription coverage. Andrew Rettenmaier, an economist at Texas A&M University who specializes in analyzing Medicare policy, believes we need to prepare ourselves for the inevitable sticker shock of prescription drug coverage, and thinks the best way to do that is to imagine what might happen if we didn't create coverage in the first place. "Medicare currently covers about five percent of what seniors pay for drugs," Rettenmaier says. That means 95 percent of the cost has to be picked...
...allegation that in return for building permits, Cianci extorted a free lifetime membership from a fancy downtown club that hadn't deigned to reply to his application in the mid-1970s. The mayor confirms that when club officials went to him for help, one wearing a Cianci bumper sticker on his back, Buddy uttered what has become the signature line of the trial: "The toe you stepped on yesterday may be connected to the ass you have to kiss today." But he scoffs at the extortion charge. "You think it would take me 25 years to screw them...
...other hand, independent Music City Records released a copy-protected CD by Charley Pride with no sticker to warn users of possible problems. That led to a lawsuit by a Marin County, Calif., woman who discovered the disc wouldn't work on her PC. Music City settled the case without paying damages and agreed to label copy-protected CDs. More significant, Philips--the company that co-owns patents on the CD and licenses that ubiquitous "CD audio" logo--says it is considering yanking the logo from all copy-protected...
...gasoline engine," says Prabhakar Patil, the chief engineer for Ford's hybrid program, who notes that cars that run on fuel cells--widely expected to be the next technological advance in automotive power--are at least 10 years off. Hybrids still have a major hurdle to overcome: sticker shock (more on that later). But for car buyers who want to do their part for the environment and are willing pay a few grand extra to do it, hybrids are the only game in Motown...
...standing still. Even so, it gets 47 m.p.g. in the city and 51 m.p.g. on the freeway, approximately a 25% improvement over the gas-only version. Aside from a small hybrid logo on the trunk, it looks just like a regular Civic. About the only drawbacks are the higher sticker price ($19,550, roughly $2,500 more than a similarly equipped standard Civic) and slightly slower acceleration...