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Plus, with the Apple tax comes peace of mind. A major virtue of Steve Jobs' control-freak ways is that if something goes wrong with your computer, you know whom to blame. You call Apple or go to the Genius Bar at an Apple store. End of problem. With a PC, though, you have to try to figure out if you've got a hardware problem or a software problem. Invariably, you will be wrong, and the Microsoft-support rep will refer you to the PC manufacturer. Or vice versa. Repeat...
...spending and poll numbers above 50% in some national and state surveys. A political body in motion tends to stay in motion unless thwarted, and the Democrats kept rolling along. Given their dire situation, Republicans have done an outstanding job sounding the alarm at the prospect of full Democratic control of Congress and the White House, while also remaining upbeat in public about their own chances on Election Day. But the Democrats have ably balanced a display of growing confidence with a stern warning to supporters about the dangers of complacency...
...these fates--defeat, resignation or expulsion--would be an ironic career ender for the 40-year Washington veteran whose control of the federal purse strings once made his colleagues practically genuflect in his presence. Longtime friend Jack Roderick, who practiced law with Stevens 40 years ago, sounded subdued at his Anchorage home the day of the verdict. "It's just sad on a personal level," said Roderick, who believes his old friend is innocent. "No question, he showed bad judgment to get associated with a guy like Bill Allen. He got sloppy...
...hospital, for example, are more likely to stay out of the emergency room down the line. In total, the HCAHPS survey asked 27 questions about patients' demographic characteristics and eight areas of patient perceptions: communication with doctors, communication with nurses, quality of nursing services, communication about medications, pain control, information received when leaving hospital, and whether hospital rooms were clean and quiet. About 80% of surveyed patients felt they got good information at discharge. Only 60% said they always had good information about medications administered to them in the hospital...
...agencies and other critics call Nkunda a power-obsessed warlord whose troops have raped and terrorized civilians in a quest to control a part of Congo with rich farmland and valuable mineral deposits. Nkunda, of course, sees things differently. He professes to be a protector and liberator of ethnic Tutsis like himself, still hunted by Rwandan Hutus who crossed the border into Congo after the genocide of the mid-1990s...