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Taking Foreign Cultures 66, "Tiananmen," gives me a very weird feeling, something like drinking poison to quench my thirst. The course, as it progresses, will be hard for me to swallow if I don't find a way to immediately get rid of my stubborn national protectionism from the Chinese sense of pride. So far the possibility of such a solution remains...
...YOUR STORY, HEALTH NET'S LYLE SWALlow defended the HMO's rejection of a proposal to study ovarian cancer as a decision required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Swallow argued that if Health Net researched ovarian cancer, this law would obligate it to allocate similar resources to other diseases. As one of the principal drafters of the ada and a practicing attorney with extensive experience in disability law, I can tell your readers that Swallow's conclusion is flat wrong. Nothing in the ada requires a company that spends money to find a cure for one disease to expend...
...twice the size of Jupiter. Like our own largest planet, it probably consists mostly of such noxious gases as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and methane. Fierce jet streams blow unceasingly at hundreds of miles per hour, sometimes spiraling into mammoth hurricanes that last for centuries and are big enough to swallow the Earth. And if this harsh world has any solid surface at all, it's buried under an atmosphere thousands of miles deep, crushed by pressures a thousandfold greater than those at the bottom of the deepest terrestrial sea. A second planet, circling the star 70 Virginis, in the constellation...
Soon afterward, Health Net's Ossorio telephoned Glaspy's boss, Dr. Dennis Slamon, the division chief of oncology at UCLA, in what the deMeurerses say was an effort to influence whether the center would perform Christy's transplant. Health Net's Lyle Swallow disputes this charge: "The idea that Health Net could somehow muscle UCLA into doing anything, given their size, given their reputation, given their budget, is really kind of laughable...
...under the Americans with Disabilities Act that it was discriminating against people with other diseases. "If we put money into ovarian-cancer research and word gets out, then it isn't going to be long before aids groups or prostate-cancer groups start having a field day," says Lyle Swallow, Health Net's cheerful associate vice president for legal services. "I didn't like having to give that advice, but it's another rock and a hard place...