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Employers' whip of choice is the corporate-wellness program. Three-quarters of large employers have one, up from 56% three years ago. And the new wellness program has teeth. It levies fees for not joining, assigns workers to risk categories, rewards them for improving and sics personal coaches on employees to hound them into better habits. Some employers take the mission so seriously they're telling workers to get well or get lost...
What the OECD data seem to suggest is that you can run a retirement plan that's fiscally sound but stingy, or you can make big promises that will eventually go sour. The U.S. fits mostly in the former category--for all the gnashing of teeth about Social Security, its funding problems are modest by global standards...
...starters, Bush's top advisers are all graduates of the school of Star Wars, old national security hands who in one form or another cut their teeth on the issue as young policymakers. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley pursued missile defense with the Soviets as an arms control negotiator in the administration of George H. W. Bush. When he became George W. Bush's deputy National Security Adviser in 2001, he kept a small model of the Soviet ballistic missile arsenal near his desk and spent his first nine months so focused on getting a rollback of the anti-ballistic...
...they’re drunk, maybe they’ll play along. Those absurd and whimsical games which, growing up, were products of impulse alone, now seem like calculated ways of getting attention. How does this happen without our noticing? Perhaps the imagination, like baby teeth, just falls out in pieces and is replaced with something more permanent. Maybe the mélange of hormones that drown a body in adolescence takes no prisoners and leaves no survivors. Whatever it is, one day spaceships turned back into boxes and the monsters moved out of the closet. Losing this capacity...
...White House greeted the Commission's report in December with something like gritted teeth - and then proceeded to largely ignore it. More recently, the Bush team has quietly picked up on some of the Commission's most controversial diplomatic ideas, such as talking to Syria and Iran. Alexander and Colorado Democrat Ken Salazar see their measure as a way to both help the White House find a path out of the wilderness and build bipartisan support for its trouble...