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...positive of the 401(k) is that it's portable, while most pensions aren't. But on balance, there's widespread agreement among those who study retirement matters that the 401(k) has so far proved a less-than-adequate replacement for disappearing corporate pensions. "It may be a good tax-free-savings system for wealthy individuals," sums up George Miller, the California Democrat who chairs the Education and Labor Committee and plans to spearhead a re-examination of the 401(k). "It may not be the best retirement-savings system for working families...
These findings are part of a larger trend toward a more widespread use of EHRs...
...researchers published yesterday in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The study, conducted by Pride Chigwedere, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, and four other researchers from the school, also found that the infection of 35,000 newborns with HIV could have been prevented with widespread use of ARV drugs. In total, the number of “person-years”—the number of years that people would have lived with ARV treatments—lost by the South African government is estimated at 3.8 million. ARV drugs are accepted therapy...
...crucial thing is a change of direction on America's part. Much of the widespread Muslim sympathy for al-Qaeda is based on defensiveness, the attitude of people who feel attacked and judged against. We should be able to police the threat of terrorism without making more than a billion Muslims feel that they have an enemy. And consider this: if you take the opposite approach, refusing to dig out terrorism by its roots, you are saying in effect that the jihad movement that affects every Muslim country is rootless. That makes no sense at all, and it will keep...
...disasters are reported in China. The complex methods Beijing uses to try and dictate what its populace reads, watches and hears about events in their own country are a key element of how the Communist Party maintains power. But as the world economic crisis deepens and unrest becomes more widespread, the central government has had to tweak how it wages its propaganda war. Just how successfully it manages to control the way events unfold will become increasingly critical in preventing isolated cases from turning into the kind of large-scale civil unrest that threatens the party...