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...America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the industry trade group, has agreed to sign on to a new, 50-state health care reform implementation effort, provisionally called Enroll America, which is being organized by Ron Pollack of the pro-reform group Families USA. "We are participating in it," says AHIP spokesman Robert Zirkelbach. "The goal is to get everyone covered." (Watch TIME's video "The Story of an Uninsured Woman...
...PhRMA, the drug industry's trade group, is also expected by progressive activists to continue public education spending over the coming months, though the organization's board has not yet made any final decisions. The group has already spent tens of millions of dollars in recent months on ads promoting health reform...
...with such an exhausting array of activities and schoolwork, the trade-off between jumping rope and track was inevitable—one that Reed cites as the hardest decision of her life...
...introductions, by marching straight onto stage (or lane, in the case of a concert at a bowling alley), picking up their instruments and playing without preplanned tempos or set lists. In one scene, the band takes the stage only to play one note before walking off. In another, they trade songs with Inuit elders, who nod off in time to the blues stylings of Jack. Throughout the film, the Stripes blaze through their 10-year catalogue, now rife with hits, accelerating and decelerating throughout every song and playing with an unhinged passion worthy of any classic rock or punk greats...
...same time, Wen has also said that "no one wants a trade or currency war." Even as the China Development Forum was taking place, Wen noted that a Chinese envoy was en route to Washington to discuss trade issues, and pointed with hope to a May session of the biannual Strategic and Economic Dialogue, at which high-ranking delegations from both sides will sit down in Washington. "You got a sense," says an American participant, "that he wants calmer heads to prevail...