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...other insurers, and it has a AA credit rating. But part of that is due to the similar solidity of its patient base - a homogeneous population with a predictable range of ills. The financial team prefers things this way and has resisted any calls for expansion. "We've purposely stuck to our knitting in central Pennsylvania," says Dr. Duane Davis, chief medical officer of Geisinger Health Plans. But larger plans trying to serve more-diverse communities don't have the same luxury. What's more, while Geisinger's electronic health records may be an impressive showpiece, not every provider...
...wanted to talk about little besides the Cambridge Public Schools. Kelley is a polarizing politician—often somewhat too dogmatic, even strangely eager to alienate his colleagues—but he does have a tendency to tell it like it is, and one thing he said has stuck with me for the past three and a half years: “If we can’t make public education work here,” he said, “there is no hope for public education in a diverse, urban environment anywhere...
...Loggerhead sea turtle was still alive, but barely. As it lay on its back on the pavement, occasionally flapping its fins, the fisherman who had caught it when it got stuck in his net a few miles off the coast of the Gaza Strip said he would take it home and eat it. The fisherman, who gave his name only as "Abu Mohamed," admitted that his catch was illegal. Loggerheads are classified internationally as an endangered species. But these days, environmental protection is rarely enforced in Gaza's waters. That's because, according to fishermen and local maritime officials, life...
...California, to borrow a phrase, will be back. It's been stuck in an awful recession - not quite as awful as Nevada's - but it's getting unstuck. It's made nasty cuts to close ugly deficits, but it hasn't had to release prisoners or close parks, and its IOUs are being paid. Its businesses aren't fleeing to Nevada or anywhere else; Jed Kolko, an economist at the Public Policy Institute of California, has shown that fewer than one-tenth of 1% of its jobs leave the state each year. Even California's real problems tend...
...international refugee rules were drafted during the Cold War in order to offer asylum to those who risked individual persecution for their political or religious beliefs. That now seems dated, with migrants fleeing everything from wars to famine and ecological disasters like droughts. Still, many immigration officials have stuck to the original definition. "They say, 'You weren't really fleeing persecution, just fleeing bullets,' " says Bill Frelick, director of the Human Rights Watch refugee-policy program in Washington. "But those distinctions are rapidly fading, and people are beginning to recognize that." Even as charter flights take off from Europe, bound...