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Under the proposed waiver, critically ill students would still be transported to local emergency rooms; all other cases would be at the discretion of the responding Emergency Medical Technicians...
...waiver would be a win/win situation,” Rosenthal says, “Because emergency rooms would get 700 fewer patients a year, and students wouldn’t have to go to an emergency room where they’re exposed to waiting and sometimes no care. Ambulances don’t want to take relatively minor injuries to busy emergency rooms when they could be treated...
...atmospheric arithmetic suggests that this kind of sliding scale for emissions makes sense, but a closer look explains the Administration's objections. The category of developing countries, for the purposes of the accord, included China and India, major powers by almost any measure. Giving two such heavyweights a CO2 waiver while the U.S. had to carry its share was galling to some. Proponents of the deal counter, as the biggest polluter, the U.S. should shoulder more of the reduction burden. Says Kjell Larsson, Sweden's Environment Minister and current President of the E.U.: "The U.S. has made it more difficult...
...their tuition package, students can choose either to be covered under Harvard's Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance plan or to sign a waiver saying that they wish to be covered under their parents' insurance...
...atmospheric arithmetic suggests that this kind of sliding scale for emissions makes sense, but a closer look explains the Administration's objections. The category of developing countries, for the purposes of the accord, included China and India, major powers by almost any measure. Giving two such heavyweights a CO2 waiver while the U.S. had to carry its share struck a lot of people as galling. "A protocol that excepts China and India and...penalizes American industry...wouldn't be ratifiable," says Rice...