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What neither plan explicitly addresses is a way to deal with the inevitable progress of technology. Because the real crisis in health care isn't inefficiency--it's these constantly rising costs, which threaten to stretch already thin resources. Any reasonable plan to manage health care insurance must explicitly address this quandary. Clinton's advisors, the framers of national health care policy, ought to know this...
...didn't take her far from home. But most of The Shipping News (Scribner's; 337 pages; $20) is set on the coast of Newfoundland. Proulx made seven trips there, learning the ways in which locals and newcomers use language, seeing how the tight community life falls apart in thin times, as the old occupations of cod fishing and seal hunting fail...
...gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life as a newspaperman, the author eases up and allows an occasional...
Though the chips themselves are wafer-thin, one of Applied's machines can fill a room and cost $3 million. Everyone Applied hires has a college degree, often in engineering or physics (though one of its 400 workers was trained in fine arts). All are expected to spend 20% of their time on research and development, continually finding ways to change or even eliminate the manufacturing process that takes the other 80% of their time. Says company spokesman Steve Taylor on Applied's philosophy: "We actually want you to figure out a way to eliminate your...
...consultant has been known as a compulsive truth teller with a penchant for speaking his mind even when it reflected badly on the candidate he was managing. Last week Rollins set a new standard for provocative candor by boasting that his latest electoral triumph -- Christine Todd Whitman's razor-thin victory over New Jersey Governor Jim Florio -- was largely the result of a political dirty trick...