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Simply getting to the ED has become potentially life-threatening. Financially strapped EMSs are having trouble keeping pace with a growing slate of 911 calls. In many communities, emergency transportation has been taken over by for-profit ambulance companies that were supposed to increase efficiency and save taxpayer money. But in some cases they've been lethally inefficient--and none too profitable to boot...
Harvard scheduled its last non-conference game of the season for next Monday at Hartford, a team it beat handily by 79-65 last year. The Crimson then closes its slate with 10 straight conference games...
...riding, options-exercising CEO persona somewhere on the other side of this megadeal. The only flaw in this picture, frankly, is a fist-size interactive pager that is dancing between Levin's palm and his pocket. The pager chirps from time to time, and Levin pops it from its slate-gray plastic case, uses a thumbwheel to scroll through a few messages and then slips it back into its case. Occasionally, he pokes out a quick message on the device's Chiclet-size keys. Chirp. Pop. Click-click-click. It's almost a Macarena rhythm...
Actually, I have the answers right now. But first, a few disclosures are necessary. Readers have the right to know that TIME magazine will be part of AOL Time Warner. The author of this essay, by contrast, has a day job as editor of Slate, an online magazine published by Microsoft. Microsoft owns an online service, msn, that competes with AOL. Microsoft and AOL Time Warner will have competing investments in the cable industry. On yet another hand, Microsoft and Time Warner are co-investors in a high-speed cable-Internet connection business called Roadrunner. On a fourth hand, Microsoft...
...Primaries use secret ballots, similar to those in general elections. Primary voters choose a slate of delegates who are affiliated with a particular candidate. In most states, those delegates sign a pledge to vote at the state convention for the candidate they represent...