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...approached not only Shalala but also Medicare- and Medicaid-programs administrator Bruce Vladeck, whose office had written the sharper guidelines and who offered to consider revisions. Solomont says he was the "impetus" for at least two meetings with Vladeck and an exchange of letters. In one memo, Solomont asked Vladeck to review suggested changes: "Put it in your own words and send it back to us in a letter [to show] our mutual direction." To consumer advocates such as Toby Edelman of the National Senior Citizens Law Center, "it's disturbing they had access that ordinary people don't have...
...Reported by Jordan Bonfante/Bonn and Bruce van Voorst/Washington
...Adam Zagorin/Washington, with reporting by Bruce van Voorst
...more than a photo op. On the table: the impending eastward expansion of NATO and Russia's finances. "The top issue on the agenda will be negotiations on a charter -- Russia wants to call it a treaty -- to regulate the relations between NATO and Russia," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "The Russians are against the expansion in principle, but they are willing to discuss it. The U.S. hasn't given the issue much urgency, but now the European allies are nervous that expansion without an agreement will damage East/West relations." Nelan says that reforms of Russia's broken tax system...
Even more fundamental, says Dr. Bruce Perry of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, is the role parents play in setting up the neural circuitry that helps children regulate their responses to stress. Children who are physically abused early in life, he observes, develop brains that are exquisitely tuned to danger. At the slightest threat, their hearts race, their stress hormones surge and their brains anxiously track the nonverbal cues that might signal the next attack. Because the brain develops in sequence, with more primitive structures stabilizing their connections first, early abuse is particularly damaging. Says Perry: "Experience...