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...culture where "religion wasn't grim or judgmental, like my impressions growing up," as Neufeld notes. Suddenly relaxed, Neufeld opens up to the serendipitous nature of travel and feels content. Other adventures include the exploration of a vast cave, where he faces his mortality, and his appearance as an extra on the "New York" set of a Singapore soap opera, where he finds his own culture as the foreign...
...party that wants to make G.P. visits free has to convince doctors not to charge more than the government reimburses them: $A25.70 for a consultation of 15 min. or less. Labor under Mark Latham, a Whitlam prot?g?, has pledged to give doctors an extra $A5 for each bulk-billed consultation, plus monthly bonuses if they reach certain targets. Latham has affirmed Labor's "rock-solid determination" to lift the proportion of consultations that are bulk billed from 70% to 80%. Last week he made an additional pledge to make more visits to specialists free as part of a $A1 billion...
Ironically, one of the reasons CBS (and the White House) may not have vetted the memos with extra care is that they weren't all that shocking. "This wasn't the document that said, 'Here's the proof that George Bush was using cocaine,'" says Howard. "These were documents that incrementally added shading to the story. The idea that someone would forge a document that was so mild--that didn't send up a warning flag." (Then again, CBS was excited enough about the memos to hype them on its original show.) Mapes, who spent five years pursuing this story...
...decades, accelerated students have performed almost as well on standardized tests as older classmates, even those with similar IQs--meaning that an accelerated 7year-old with an IQ of 133 typically scores nearly as well as on the same test as a 133IQ 8year-old who has had an extra year of school. Accelerants far outscore their equally gifted age-mates who did not move ahead. Radical accelerants also do well, even after jumping years of classes: a 20year longitudinal study of Australians who had skipped at least three grades found they were more likely to earn advanced degrees than...
...also shoot 2-megapixel photographs and has a built-in 10x optical zoom lens for both video and stills. One thing that's not mini, however, is the price: $1,200 for the basic GZ-MC100, $1,300 for the GZ-MC200, which has a swiveling grip for extra comfort. --By Wilson Rothman