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...among other things. Insurance companies say patients, hospitals, doctors and thieves are cheating them out of $60 billion or more. Meanwhile millions of Americans are starving for care in the midst of plenty. Doctors have migrated away from rural areas across America, leaving families in dread fear of the tractor accident, the heart attack, the sudden illness. Another problem: the health-care system devotes so much of its resources to last-minute miracles that it neglects the more mundane realm of preventive medicine, where many terrible illnesses could be halted sooner or avoided altogether. "We have to rearrange...
...movies as in life, this is the most traditional woman's role: hearth stirrer, home saver, raising her children and supporting her man. It ! was an emblem, we now realize, of her superiority. Modern man knows that modern woman can do the old, cool-guy stuff -- run a tractor, beat him at poker, light a cigarette in a high wind -- but that he can't manage, so artfully or efficiently, what women have done since the cave days. So there's nothing inherently retrograde about Dying Young, in which Julia Roberts performs bedside therapy on ailing Campbell Scott...
...company's harried managers hope to expand nonmilitary production under a three-year-old agreement with the German firm Hanomag to manufacture earthmoving equipment. ZTS Martin has also begun working under license from the Italian manufacturer Lombardini to produce tractor engines and other machinery. The company eventually plans to make 40,000 engines annually, but this year it will turn out fewer than 900. "In the first phase, new products don't bring profits," say Segla. "What we need are partners who have money and are willing to invest...
...Mubarak has consistently ignored Muammar Gaddafi's repeated calls to merge the two countries in a pan-Arab union. But economic necessity is drawing Egypt and Libya closer together. In the interest of improved relations, Mubarak is shrugging off the Libyan's antics. (A recent Gaddafi stunt: using a tractor to demolish an Egyptian border post.) Earlier this month, when Mubarak visited Tripoli for a 12-hour summit, the Egyptian leader said his country welcomed economic cooperation with Libya and expressed predictable support for "the rights of the brotherly Palestinian people." Western diplomats say Gaddafi may return the favor...
...them deeper into Turkey. So about 20 Turkish doctors waiting with medicine and ambulances in Cizre, 29 miles away, cannot reach them; the vehicles cannot navigate the dirt track up the mountain. Every once in a while, when the track dries out a bit, Turkish soldiers send up a tractor-trailer piled with loaves of bread -- the only food that reaches the refugees. On the mountaintop, the trailer is swarmed by struggling, fighting Kurds. The Turkish soldiers fire shots in the air and even swing rifle butts to hold back the crowd, but in vain; within minutes the trailer...