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...with Secure Horizons, a managed-care plan, to treat some of the plan's 40,000 Massachusetts Medicare patients. In Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Group, which began in 1992 with just two physicians, expects to have 80 by midsummer. It already has two full-time vans carrying patients from suburban doctors' offices to the star-studded UCLA School of Medicine. In Washington, Doctors Care Plan has signed up 900 physicians and 17 hospitals in the capital and its suburbs...
...times more cocaine powder than crack to draw the same 10-year minimum sentence for drug dealing. Because crack is more prevalent in poor, predominantly black inner-city areas, an appeal by a consortium of attorneys (including Johnnie Cochran) argued that the law unfairly targets blacks, while letting suburban whites--the primary consumers of powder cocaine off with a lesser sentence for carrying the same amount of the drug. The case involved a black man, Duane Edwards, who was arrested in the District of Columbia in 1995 for selling an undercover agent 126.6 grams of crack...
...viewing movies like "North and South" or "Roots" because of the brutal depictions of slavery. Like many children, I applied what I saw to my own reality. I lay awake for hours imagining that the sick men dressed in sheets on television would invade and burn my home in suburban St. Louis. But I appeased my fears by convincing myself that those things don't happen anymore: Missouri isn't Alabama or Mississippi. And even if it is, great progress has been made in those places. Surely the hate cannot hurt me here, not now: these were the beliefs that...
...capabilities of modern signage. Tourism is rising; crime is dropping, at an even faster clip than in the rest of the city. The area is bustling with new hotels, new office buildings--not to mention new chain stores and corny theme restaurants that would be at home in any suburban mall. Not that Times Square (which technically refers only to the triangle above 42nd Street where Broadway and Seventh Avenue meet but casually takes in the entire neighborhood) doesn't still retain some of its seedy, pre-Gap allure. Indeed, sailors still flock here during Fleet Week, but last year...
...Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was even more careful when it came to popping the question to NBC's Andrea Mitchell. It took him 12 years of courtship, but the answer was a resounding "yes." The two will marry this Sunday at the upscale Inn at Little Washington in suburban Virginia, with a flock of Washington bigwigs in attendance. It will be the second marriage for both. Mitchell, 51, a hard-news Washington reporter who met Greenspan when he headed the Social Security bail-out commission, says that "rational exuberance" not unlike the one Greenspan says currently plagues the stock...