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When you took over, you were starting from scratch. We had a country that was really in a state of total collapse. The institutions were no longer functional, all the major productive activity had come to a halt, except for Firestone. [But] the war provided an opportunity for reform. The total collapse of everything is a big challenge. But it does provide an opportunity to change things. That's the kind of tough transition that we're going through right now. Part of it has to do with a change in the culture, moving from dependency to self-reliance, mediocrity...
...Mayo Clinic financially for efficiently and effectively providing Medicare services is just one failing of our health-care system. Attempts to lower Medicare costs, even those now under consideration, focus on lower fees--a maneuver well known to increase the number of services, many unneeded, and actually increase total costs. Truly effective care can be delivered only by integrated, cohesive, properly incentivized, Mayo-like multispecialty medical groups with strong leadership and a commitment to quality. Unfortunately, legislation pending in Congress ignores this need. Charles V. Allen, M.D., MODESTO, CALIF...
...Program of NYU's nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice, presents this study of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's record. To contextualize Sotomayor's decisions and inform the ongoing debate over the U.S. Supreme Court nominee's purported history of "judicial activism," Youn looked at every constitutional case - 1,194 in total - decided by the judges of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals during Sotomayor's decade of service. The study used three major measures: whether the votes of each judge were in accord with his or her colleagues'; how often the judge upheld the action of another government branch...
...More than half of all homeless people on a single night in January 2008 were found in just five states: California (157,277), New York (61,125), Florida (50,158), Texas (40,190) and Michigan (28,248). Their share is disproportionate, as these states constitute only 36% of the total U.S. population. Mississippi, South Dakota, and Kansas had the nation's lowest concentration of homeless persons ... In both 2007 and 2008, one in five people homeless on a single night in January were in Los Angeles, New York, or Detroit." (See "Giving Kolkata's Homeless Kids a Chance...
...condition to pay up. That's why workers are demanding that the plant's two biggest clients - the makers of Renault and Peugeot cars - provide the $41,000 for each job being eliminated. Not surprisingly, officials at both those groups say they aren't going to pony up the total $14 million that would cost - especially since the machinery and auto parts at the plant are scarcely worth $2.8 million. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...