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Carney said after the hearing that he has yet to see "any evidence whatsoever" from the Commonwealth indicating that his client was "a participant in the murder." He added that Copney's mood is "surprisingly good" considering that he has been jailed without bail for roughly two months...
...spot for anti-regime Iranian opposition and a font of support for human rights and reform in Iran, Britain has enjoyed little favor from Tehran in recent years. The launch in January of a BBC Persian-language TV service, thanks largely to funds from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has further riled authorities in Iran. The news channel - beaming images of the recent protests via satellite from London, despite efforts by the Iranian regime to block it - has already drawn millions of viewers. An announcement last week that the British government had frozen some $1.6 billion of Iranian assets...
...made the transition. The country has a centralized computer database to which 98% of primary care physicians, all hospital physicians and all pharmacists now have access. While basic records go back to 1977, a detailed history is available of all "patient contacts" since 2000. A recent study by the Commonwealth Fund, a health-care-reform nonprofit, rated the country's health-care IT systems as the most efficient in the world, with computerized record-keeping saving Danish physicians an average 50 minutes a day of administrative work. "That's essential for [U.S.] doctors," says Jeff Harris of the American College...
...shown how effective it can be to allow physicians to compare their performance against their colleagues. The country has the largest database on hospital performance in the world, which helps spread best practice. Such ideas would prove equally effective in the U.S., according to Karen Davis of the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, but change needs to come at the policy level. "Right now we can see how successful these programs are in places like Germany and Pennsylvania but then doctors and hospitals come back and ask, 'Who's going to pay for it?'," she says. "It's a fair...
...again and receiving their blessing, Crocker proposed—with another ring—on a bench across from Weeks Bridge on their first night back at school this year. Next fall, Mims will begin law school at the University of Virginia, while Crocker starts dentistry studies at Virginia Commonwealth University...