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...other states, from West Virginia to Hawaii, lawmakers are talking about cutting funding, narrowing eligibility or placing restrictions on CHIP. And that's just one small part of what the new health-care crisis looks like across America. In California nurses are leaving hospitals to take jobs at Starbucks and Macy's because the benefits and working conditions are better, and hospitals are so understaffed that patients' families are answering phones on the wards. In Arkansas lawmakers cut a deal last week to preserve Medicaid benefits, after protesting parents wheeled their disabled children into the statehouse. In Idaho parents angry...
...thing of the past. To save more of its manpower for important duties closer to the battlefield, the Army in May will begin deploying civilians rather than uniformed soldiers in some of its recruiting stations around the country. Responding to congressional direction, the service will pay two Virginia companies $172 million to staff about 65 of its 1,700 recruiting stations over the next five years with civilians (mostly former noncommissioned officers). Some critics wonder whether youngsters thinking about enlisting will be as impressed by a civilian in shirtsleeves as by a soldier in uniform. "There's no doubt that...
Twombly is a towering force in contemporary painting. This recent series is a testament to his sophisticated innovation and, more specifically, a stunning culmination of his continuous love of antiquity and his obsession of sorts with the making of boats. Born in Virginia in 1928, Twombly soon immersed himself in the rich histories, particularly in themes of warfare, of the Mediterranean cultures in his 1957 move to Italy...
...companies do their best to make a profit. There are plenty of potential buyers, especially along the densely populated corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C. Privatization of some sort is probably where the future of rail travel lies. "Over time," says John Collura, a professor of civil engineering at Virginia Tech, "inter-city rail will evolve into a private service, although it may still receive some public support." Just not as much as Amtrak needs - and that's the critical difference as far as Washington is concerned...
...Paul O'Neill the free-market economist against Karl Rove the GOP vote-counter. Pork politics - just those few rust-belt votes can lock down the House in 2002 and the White House in 2004 - won. And man-of-integrity Bush, who by keeping one campaign promise to West Virginia sold out not only his free-market principles but also most of his own party, is now sporting a sizeable black...