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The Gist: As members of Congress vote on controversial health-care-reform legislation, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has analyzed census data to provide a closer look at the people without health insurance in the U.S. Its report, focused on people younger than age 65, found 45.7 million "nonelderly...
Few things in France can provoke heated debate faster than moves to tinker with the country's vaunted public-education system, which embodies republican values that date back to the French Revolution. It's especially true when the changes involve an idea as capitalistic and nonegalitarian as paying certain students...
Mazoltuv Borukhova, a Queens doctor, was convicted in March of first-degree murder after her cousin, Mikhail Mallayev, shot and killed her husband execution style in front of their 4-year-old daughter in a playground. In the midst of a heated custody dispute, Borukhova allegedly lured her husband to...
Hewlett-Packard kicked off the IT-services trend with last year's $13.9 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp. But the trend heated up last month when Dell unveiled a $3.9 billion plan to buy Perot Systems and Xerox made a $6.4 billion bid for Affiliated Computer Services. (See...
But even more than the affront to Russian culture, critics point to what they call a breakdown in the rule of law. They see the skyscraper, which would be the tallest in Europe, as a symbol of the Russian leaders' blatant disregard for the public good as they continue to...