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Hsiao first attained prominence when his criticisms of Medicare in 1986 led to its reform and made HMOs (Health Maintenance Organization) a household word...
...charges that they are mere puppets for union officials, pointing out that organizations of all political stripes have long looked to students to spark change. More important to the movement's quick rise, the leaders say, is the use of e-mail, which has enabled them to get the word out to students across the country. "There's no way hundreds of students would have marched up to a university administration building just because some human-rights group asked them to," says Tico Almeida, a Duke senior who led the campus rally back in January. "Students have grasped this issue...
...forestall any Strangelovian mishaps, NORAD intends to create a "joint confidence center" and has invited Russian officials to join them in mid-December at a scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it's a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack buttons. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool to the proposal, but NORAD intends to go ahead and build the facility, which could be shared with other countries...
Some memoirists have found success getting the word out on a smaller scale. When Diana Douglas Darrid approached a large publisher with a memoir of her life as an actress, she found the editors only wanted her to dish dirt about her first marriage--to actor Kirk Douglas. Darrid eventually found the right fit with Barricade Books, a small New York press that publishes theater and film biographies. Lots of specialty and regional publishers are seeking books on everything from Navy stories to tales of Kentucky history. In the fall, Rainer plans to launch First Person Press, which will...
Last week this urban Robinson Crusoe, an unemployed comic nicknamed Nasubi (the Japanese word for eggplant), emerged from his Truman Show-like hermitage with the subtlety typical of TV in Japan: he was led into another room, the walls collapsed away and a crowd roared with delight. "You mean, everyone has been watching my naked body all this time?" he asked. In fact, his genitals had been covered by an electronic eggplant...