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...this year tackles this economy-wrecking mess. That's especially true in a market like Miami, which holds the dubious distinctions of having one of the nation's lowest median incomes yet its highest medical costs. According to a study released Thursday by Families USA, a Washington-based healthcare watchdog, family health insurance premiums for Florida workers doubled over the past decade, rising four times faster than median earnings. (Are you underinsured...
...gets in Iraq. And if so, why should American soldiers hang around until 2011 in a war costing America in the region of $12 billion a month and whose U.S. casualty count is nearing 4,500 dead and 30,000 wounded? (See TIME's 10 Questions for nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei...
...report released after a June visit to Zimbabwe, human-rights watchdog Amnesty International blasted the Mugabe government for continuing to oppress Zimbabweans despite promises to introduce democratic reforms and to observe the rule of law. "Persistent and serious human-rights violations, combined with the failure to introduce reform of the police, army and security forces or address impunity and the lack of clear commitment on some parts of the government, are real obstacles that need to be confronted by the top leadership of Zimbabwe," Irene Khan, Amnesty's secretary-general, said last month...
...Critics have lambasted the ban, saying it reeks of moral censorship. "It's a very worrying sign if the Ukrainian authorities say they are banning the film because of homosexual scenes," says Evhen Minko, chief editor of media-watchdog magazine Telekritika. Given the way the film lampoons intolerant attitudes toward homosexuality, the joke seems to be on them. "They didn't understand it," says Minko. "The commission's interpretation of the film is a parody in itself...
...been here before. In December 2006, a government watchdog named 31 British publications, including tabloids and more respectable national newspapers, for working with private investigators to obtain personal information about members of the public. Indeed, using investigators is not illegal if the information they obtain is used in the public interest. But as Andrew Neil, former editor of the Sunday Times (a News International paper) pointed out on Thursday: "Someone has yet to explain to me why getting into the voice mail of Gwyneth Paltrow after she's had a baby is in the public interest...