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The Obama Administration has offered few details thus far as to how it plans to institute comprehensive health-care coverage. In a letter to Congress March 24, however, the health-insurance industry - including America's Health Insurance Plans and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association - indicated it would be...
Still, experts are not willing to say that babies should never be given anesthesia. "We don't want to delay surgery or withhold surgery for the kids who need it," says Dr. Sulpicio Soriano, an anesthesiologist at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital in Boston. "But we need more...
And so Obama's central theme is being tested. The discussion is now likely to return to the promise Obama made last month, when he told Congress that he was willing to "sacrifice some worthy priorities" to make his budget responsible. White House aides say that the president has already...
Sipping tea in another Burmese town, I listened as a companion recalled his favorite line from the U.S. presidential inaugural address by John F. Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Sitting between us was a shy young man...
Karin von Hippel, a Somali specialist and senior fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, agrees. "This is the first time that those of us who have been watching Somalia for all these years have been able to feel a bit optimistic," she says. Somalia last...