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...national television and not to the President. So DeParle quickly accepted the inevitability of her situation, turning to the cameras without any notes and rapidly thanking Obama for appointing her as the nation's director of the White House Office of Health Reform, a job that will put her at the center of this year's effort to overhaul both the cost and the availability of medical care in America. "I'll just say that I'm really honored," she began, speaking swiftly. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...effect of encouraging more people to buy their insurance individually, rather than getting it where they work. This approach has been criticized by many Democrats - including Obama, when John McCain embraced a version of it during the election campaign - who contend that relying on the individual market would put health-care consumers at a disadvantage to big insurance companies...
...put it mildly, distracted. We're not able to bring the same level of attention to a problem like North Korea that we might have been able to bring five, ten years ago." - In an address to the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Inauguration...
...What could be more problematic is the time it will take China to put the regulations into place. The law has been years in the making, and the government has delayed approval as it weighed how to incorporate lessons from the latest food-safety scandals. China has endured a series of such scandals in recent years, and often the country's youngest citizens have been the victims. Five years ago, 13 babies died of malnourishment in coastal Fujian province after they were fed formula that contained little or no nutritional value. Last year at least six infants died and some...
...work at the time. "It was just like the Mumbai attacks. They were young, about 25-to-30 years of age, coming from different directions. Some were clean-shaven, others bearded. They were wearing tracksuits and carried backpacks. One of the men then put down his rocket launcher and pulled out a rifle. He changed the magazine so quickly that it could only have been done by a professional. The others were walking around so calmly, across the grass in the roundabout." (See pictures of the Mumbai attacks...