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...Health Care for All How sad that senator Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a brain tumor [June 2]. Fortunately, as a member of Congress, he will receive the best medical care without regard to cost. For millions of working Americans, this diagnosis would mean liquidation of life savings, bake sales and coin jars at the local convenience store. Why can't Congress create a comprehensive health-care plan that treats us taxpayers as generously as they treat themselves? David Stockman, BILLINGS, MONT...
Africa's colonial history has left its rulers shy of external scrutiny, so an international gathering of political and business leaders in Cape Town from June 4-6 seemed to promise little more than platitudes. The annual meetings of the World Economic Forum for Africa have often conveyed the impression that Africa's only problem is its image. Rebrand the continent as a success, the message goes, and all will be well. But this year the rising cost of food, Africa's energy deficiency and its projected failure to meet the Millennium Development Goals forced a deeper conclusion: Africa...
...Admittedly, in the case of the European press and George Bush, who started a week-long five-nation visit to Europe on June 9, such generosity will not be easily granted. Bush could discover an unexpected love for cricket, announce that he and Laura were planning to vacation on the Côte d'Azur, declare that his most fervent wish was to march in Berlin's Love Parade, and it would do him no good. For many Europeans, no matter how hard he tries, Bush will always be considered an ignorant, incurious cowboy. He was and is, they think...
...European leaders and thinkers to discuss something a little more expansive than that. Out of the challenges, and indeed failures, of the Bush Administration, a lively discourse on the nature of American power has been born. It would be nice if Europeans emulated it. But hey, it's already June. Time for the beach...
...biggest threats seiches pose is to people walking on piers: surging water may sweep them away. That's what happened on June 26, 1954, when a 10-foot seiche swept eight Chicago fishermen away in what meteorologists say remains the most destructive seiche recorded here. The Great Lakes are particularly vulnerable to seiches because they are the largest enclosed bodies of water in the U.S. Edward Fenelon, an NWS meteorologist in Romeoville, Ill., however, says fewer than three seiches are reported at each of the Great Lakes each year...