Word: waiting
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...health-insurance workers displaced by it. But it looks as though we once again may wind up with what the lobbyists for Big Pharma and insurance want us to have, thereby guaranteeing their continued profits and campaign donations. It is discouraging to see business prevailing as usual while Americans wait to have a system that's at least as good as those of other industrialized nations. Jean Quinlan, STAUNTON...
...body of information about Iran circulating on Twitter is chaotic, subjective and totally unverifiable. But here's a measure of its new role in international politics: engineers delayed a planned network upgrade that would have taken the system down at the height of the protests after being asked to wait by the U.S. State Department...
...head, with black jheri curls. Some of the best gifts I received were leather jackets - one black, the other red - splattered with shiny, silver buttons and zippers. (No glove.) My mom and dad also gave me every single, on vinyl, that MJ had ever recorded solo. I couldn't wait to go back to my room and bump to "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" from my little record player. Or for the weather in New Orleans to turn cool, so I could finally wear one of my jackets. (See TIME's top 10 Michael Jackson moments...
...European Union has proposed, and are even further away from the massive short-term cuts major developing countries have demanded. "In terms of what the U.S. will take on as a target, one year doesn't make up for the last eight years, so we'll have to wait and see," says Shyam Saran, India's envoy on climate change. "This is not our responsibility...
...that has become very proficient at opening up brand-new schools, but has very little experience in going into a preexisting school and turning those kids from low performers into high-quality students. But Zitzner, whose Entrepreneurship Preparatory has about 200 students in grades 6 to 8, can't wait to dive in. In the past three years his students have gone from fairly abysmal test results to scoring in the top quartile on the Ohio standardized test, and he doesn't see why that model can't be replicated among other underperforming students. "Charter-school people are entrepreneurs...