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...blessing and a curse. "One of the problems of a national health service is that there are not the usual incentives for it to be efficient or to find more productive ways of operating," he says. "But at the same time, politicians are not forced into taking a narrow view of what's efficient. In this instance, they can reject threats to staffing levels of doctors, nurses and administrators while accepting other elements of the report...
...recent probe ordered by Holder (above) won't be the end of the matter. It has already drawn fire from critics of Bush-era policies who say its scope is too narrow. Whether it is wise to prosecute those who carried out the questionable interrogations or to pursue those who authorized them is an issue of legality, morality ... and politics...
...language acts as a barometer of society's changing mores and preoccupations, then in the past two years scores of people have developed an interest in gourmet sex (lovemaking that is particularly passionate and enjoyable), the mankini (a man's swimming costume consisting of a narrow V-shaped piece of material extending from the crotch to the shoulders) and Fannie Mae (the informal name for the Federal National Mortgage Association that buys and sells mortgage debt...
...current approach to J-Term housing seems overly and unnecessarily restrictive. Current guidelines suggest that only thesis writers with a compelling research need, students working in labs, international students, and members of 19 varsity sports teams have been categorized as groups likely guaranteed to be approved. This narrow categorization leaves out many other students who may have a strong reason for requiring housing. For example, those participating in community-service programs, those constrained by financial difficulty, and those participating in performing-arts groups—to name a few—seemingly have far less assurance of receiving housing...
...that scientists can now turn so much of their attention to the dangers of N2O is in part because CFC levels have dropped so low, thanks to the Montreal Protocol. But N2O is likely to prove much more difficult than CFCs to phase out. While CFCs had a relatively narrow range of uses - and chemical companies like DuPont were able to come up with replacements quickly - N2O is all around us, tied intimately to our industrial way of life. The millions of tons of soil fertilizer used in U.S. agriculture alone add N2O into the atmosphere, as do livestock manure...