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...first he nourished his voracious interest with books alone. Later he began taking anthropology courses at the University of New Hampshire. Four years ago, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts. He has an advantage over his younger classmates. "Graduate students often have a problem figuring out what they want to do," says Hamm. "I had never lost my interest in the maquiladora industry, and I knew from the beginning what I wanted to study." But the gist of his dissertation has surprised even Hamm. Previous research had created a literature of oppression. Hamm's interviews...
Because of its universal reach and its complexity, the problem of health care is a useful way to measure the political temperaments of the four major candidates. For Al Gore and Bill Bradley, the issue is irresistible but also bewitched. The good news for them is that Democratic primary voters want to hear about health care, which means Gore and Bradley can get an early start on identifying a big issue for November. In a sense, when Bill Clinton last week offered his own 10-year, $110 billion plan to extend coverage to more of the uninsured, he extended coverage...
...duty, some hospitals have to fork out $1,000 daily bonuses to neurosurgeons and orthopedists. "We are on the brink of an implosion," cautions Dr. Loren Johnson, director of the ED at Sutter-Davis Hospital in Davis, Calif., and co-chair of an industry task force that investigated the problem. The state lacks the capacity to handle a major catastrophe, like an earthquake or forest fire, a report by the California emergency-medical-services authority recently found...
...around $400 million, he figures Apple's board has paid for 50 years of service. Yet in an era in which fuzzy-cheeked Internet CEOs can rack up $100 million fortunes virtually overnight, how else could a board show its appreciation? Bassick says the jet illustrates a growing problem in today's high-tech world: "How do you motivate somebody who's got everything?" The jet, he admits, "was kind of a creative way of doing that...
Remember, however, that too much of a good thing can be just as much of a problem as too little. Although it would be hard for youngsters to overdose on EnfaGrow--they would have to consume so many calories that they would stop eating long before they got into trouble--you should monitor their consumption...