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...comes from looking at what is driving the conversation. In the early 1990s, the argument was all about covering the 37 million or so uninsured. In 2009, after much of the rhetoric on last year's campaign trail focused on the growing ranks of the uninsured, the major thrust of health-care reform centers on something that affects everyone: the staggering cost of a system that threatens to devour the rest of the economy. And as a result, political momentum may finally be on the side of health reform. (See "Five Truths About Health Care in America...
...main thrust of the wargame effort is to build on a "whole government" approach which looks for solutions to crises by calling upon a host of government agencies including the U.S. State Department, Special Operations forces (which combines units from all the servies), the intelligence community and key U.S. allies around the world. In fact, military officers from a host of countries Australia, Germany, and the U.K. attended the wargames as well. (Read a story about Russia's arms build...
...trained pediatrician was the head of the CDC's emergency response office, a position he took in 2005, hours before Hurricane Katrina hit. Now, just a few months after being named the CDC's interim head - in lieu of a political appointment from President Barack Obama - Besser has been thrust into the role of the government's public health commander-in-chief, guiding the agency through what could be the first new influenza pandemic in decades. That has meant long days at CDC headquarters in Atlanta and lots of time in front of TV cameras, explaining to a worried country...
...more personal,” Popkin says. “It shows a lot more about yourself. It’s revealing about your character, how you would act in that situation. I thought it ended it up being more real to have someone totally thrust into a situation just like this person was in the piece. It turned out to be real life.” As Bethel explores the relationship between biography and fiction, he also seeks a way to unite his passion for making movies with his desire to make a concrete change in the world around...
...About to be thrust into a daunting bear market, members of Harvard’s graduating class have doubtless pondered the ultimate meaning of their hard-earned diplomas. For 17-odd years in the classroom, success has been relatively easy to define: Good work is, in theory, awarded with good grades; the higher the grade, the more consummately the student has achieved her task. Quantified through its positioning in an alphabetical hierarchy, academic success is seemingly straightforward. Yet, once we depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible...