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...example, chronically ill patients in Los Angeles visited doctors an average of 59.2 times in the last six months of their life, vs. only 14.5 times in Ogden, Utah; they still ended up just as dead. Medicare now pays three times as much per enrollee in Miami as in Honolulu, and costs are growing twice as fast in Dallas as in San Diego. Patients in higher-spending regions get more tests, more procedures, more referrals to specialists and more time in the hospital and ICU, but the Dartmouth research has found that if anything, their outcomes are slightly worse...
...wound up doing much more. Sesame Street is now the longest street on the planet. It runs from Harlem to Honolulu; on to Obama's childhood home in Indonesia, where Jalan Sesama celebrates unity through diversity; through South Africa, where one Muppet is HIV positive; through Israel and Palestine and Egypt, where girls are told how important it is that they keep reading and learning. It creates citizens of a highly globalized, post-racial world. "The only kids who can identify along racial lines with the Muppets," genius puppeteer Jim Henson observed, "have to be either green or orange...
...problem epidemic in Hawaii? Sounds like it. In 2007, there were 1,369,150 cases of larceny from motor vehicles in the entire U.S., according to the Department of Justice. That's about one break-in for every 224 people. In Honolulu, however, the rate is roughly one break-in for every 85 people...
According to the Honolulu Police Department, 10,605 cars were broken into in 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available. The numbers don't distinguish between rental cars and privately owned vehicles, but police department spokesperson Michelle Yu says that thieves most often target cars parked near popular tourist attractions, knowing that visitors often carry cameras, money, jewelry and other things worth stealing...
...Outcome: The Avenger checked with Thrifty, and company spokesperson Chris Payne says the company is unaware of a "disproportionate number of car thefts in the Honolulu area." The "happens quite often" remark by the Thrifty employee was made out of sympathy alone, Payne says. He also pointed out that Thrifty - like many rental companies - does not use company bumper stickers on rentals, so as to make them more difficult for thieves to identify. (Thrifty cars do, however, have bar-coded stickers on the windshield, which makes the omission of a bumper sticker moot...