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...insurance plan with no alternatives. If the government decided to reduce funding or deny coverage for certain medical technologies or procedures, patients would have to forgo their use or pay for it out of pocket. Under the current system, if people are dissatisfied with their plan, they can simply switch insurance carriers. No one denies the moral imperative for reform to provide health-care access to all Americans, but a single-payer system is not the answer...
...what has been dubbed a blow to Malaysia's religious freedom, the country's highest court on Wednesday denied an appeal by Christian convert Lina Joy to make her switch from Islam recognized by law. A multi-ethnic state composed largely of Muslim Malays, Christian and Buddhist Chinese, and Hindu and Sikh Indians, Malaysia has long prided itself on its diversity of faiths. To safeguard this religious heterogeneity, the country's constitution sets out a dual-track legal system in which Muslims are bound by Shari'a law for issues such as marriage, property and death, while members of other...
...when it comes to cars, actions don't necessarily follow. Even if prices keep rising, 2 out of 3 drivers say they will never switch to buses. It can now cost $130 to fill the tank of an SUV, yet SUV sales have shot up 25% over the past year. In 2000, when gas cost $2 a gal., fuel efficiency ranked 29th on the list of features car buyers cared about. With gasoline prices higher than ever before, that priority has climbed all the way up to ... 22nd place...
...Memorial Day weekend as busy as ever. Some experts say you won't see drivers really get price sensitive until they are routinely paying $100 every time they fill up. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can float congestion-pricing schemes and tell taxi drivers they have to switch to hybrids by 2012, but to the general public, this is about time and love, not money and reason. We may fear global warming, replace our lightbulbs, recycle our plastics. But in America a man's car is still his castle, and you don't pick a castle for its energy...
...Special elections are short-notice events, and there is money involved; you’re not going to have as many candidates able to pull something together,” Winters said. “If somebody just throws a light switch on and says ‘go,’ it’s different than...a vacated seat in a regular election, where there’s a lot of lead time...