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...producer Rocco Landesman, to be the NEA's next chairman. But at the same time, arts groups are worried about what they see as a serious threat to their donor base: the White House proposal to reduce as much as 20% the tax deduction that higher-income families can take for charitable contributions...
Over the past couple of years, though, the China equation got unbalanced. First came a spike in shipping costs that led manufacturers in the West to take a closer look at all the costs - time to market, quality control, etc. - of stringing their supply chains across oceans. While shipping rates have since subsided, the shift in mind-set among executives has stuck, says John Ferreira, head of the manufacturing practice at Archstone Consulting. No longer is there a herd mentality pushing them to China and other faraway places, he says. When Ferreira surveyed U.S. and European manufacturing execs late last...
...Levy takes us through his own treatment and the wreckage his migraines create around them - the abandoned dinner parties, the bad parenting, the lousy job performance. He encourages us to generalize from his example to take in the true dimensions of what is still a largely silent epidemic: 1 in 10 Americans suffers from migraines, and only around half of them have received a diagnosis...
...Sotomayor's decisions may ring a bell. It was she who ruled in 1999 that a law-school graduate with a learning disability was entitled to extra time to take a bar exam. More recently, she forbade the Environmental Protection Agency to use a cost-benefit analysis in antipollution enforcement (her ruling was later overturned). But the real fight over her confirmation will focus on her role in a case about tests for promotion within the New Haven, Conn., fire department. Although the tests were designed to be race-neutral, the pass rate for blacks was half that for whites...
...autoimmune disease, influenza and other conditions that require treatment. Leaving aside for a moment the issue of whether the benefits of certain drugs outweigh the risks to the baby, what is the appropriate dosage for a mom-to-be? Given the shifts in her metabolism, how much she should take is often anyone's guess...