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Nowhere is this more apparent than in diagnostic imaging. Last year Americans spent more than $100 billion on outpatient scans. Medicare's imaging costs have been growing 16% a year, much faster than the 9.6% rise for all physician services. The most lucrative--MRI and CT--climbed 25% last year. A third of the testing, says Donahue of National Imaging, is inappropriate; doctors order unnecessary scans, or two when one would suffice. "This is one of the most unsavory and concerning areas of how imaging is delivered," he says. "It's when imaging studies are not based upon clinical needs...
Fresh off her victory in November, Massachusetts Attorney General-elect Martha Coakley has already begun fattening her campaign coffers again in very public fashion. This despite the fact that Coakley barely spent any money on a campaign that ran uncontested in the Democratic primary and only faced token Republican opposition in the general election...
...says that it’s up to customers to determine which stores will succeed in the Square.“There are a lot of people who are upset when a landmark leaves the Square, but some people complain about those places closing but haven’t spent a dollar there in forty years,” he says. “The people who don’t patronize the stores, their opinion hardly rings true to me.”—Staff writer Shifra B. Mincer can be reached at smincer@fas.harvard.edu...
...real deal, or if his cloak-and-dagger tale of infiltrating al-Qaeda is an unverifiable get-rich-quick scam. According to his new book, Inside the Jihad: My Life With Al Qaeda, A Spy's Story, the Moroccan-born author (who uses Nasiri as a pseudonym) says he spent nearly seven years leading a dangerous double life as an informer for European intelligence services on the activities of his brothers-in-jihad, including vivid detail of combat and explosives training in Afghan camps, and his clandestine work within al-Qaeda's European cells. His anecdotes are compelling; his insight...
...specifically cite Islam. The risk is that a combination of careful words and John Paul-like gestures will dilute Benedict's potential impact on this issue. This points to a more general issue about the Ratzinger papacy. Sure, a newfound flexibility was obviously required of a man who'd spent more than 20 years ensuring strict adherence to Church doctrine. And rethinking his views on Islam and opening a debate on priestly celibacy may be welcome in many quarters. But such changes must be driven by not just the authority of the papacy, but the consistency and intellectual clarity...