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| Sat, 1 Apr 2006 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: The Cambridge question |
| When you consult a doctor, are you more impressed by the certificates on the wall or the practical experience of his competence? When you fly, would you care that the pilot had an aeronautics degree but only 10 hours' flying time? Academic qualifications are like bikinis: What they reveal may be less significant than what they conceal. |
| Sat, 1 Apr 2006 18:00:00 EST An eagerly awaited bird flu vaccine comes up short |
| There is a protective shot against bird flu, researchers reported last week. An occasion for joy and relief? Not quite. The vaccine works only half the time, and it has to be given in such large amounts that there would not be enough to go around. Vaccine makers may be able to produce shots for only 75 million people, but "we'd want to protect close to 200 million" in the United States alone, says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "We're not going to be ready." At least not with this vaccine version. |
| Sat, 1 Apr 2006 18:00:00 EST No more excuses |
| One big reason depression goes untreated is that people can't afford to seek help. Cost-conscious insurers often don't cover mental-health care at all. Or they limit the number of visits, or charge higher deductibles and copayments for talk therapy than for a blown knee or diabetes consult, say. But advocates for equal coverage got good news last week: A study published in the
New England Journal of Medicine found that equalizing benefits increased insurers' costs by less than half a percentage point. That would amount to a mere 50 cents on a $100-a-month premium, for example, if insurers passed the cost along to consumers--and most wouldn't bother, predicts Howard Goldman, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and an author of the study. |
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| Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:13:38 EDT The immigration divide |
| Of those surveyed in a Time poll last week, 75 percent would deny illegal immigrants government services such as health care and food stamps. Rather than expel them, 78 percent favored allowing citizenship for those who are already here, if they have a job, demonstrate proficiency in English and pay their taxes. With no clear, simple solution to the problem, legislation aimed at the problem promises to be, in the words of Sen. John McCain, "a defining moment in the history of the United States." |
| Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:21:55 EDT Rice, Straw arrive in Iraq |
| U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw are in Baghdad for a previously unannounced visit aimed at jump-starting the process of forming a national unity government in Iraq. The slow pace of negotiations is believed to be fueling much of Iraq's sectarian violence, and security concerns are likely to be discussed. |
| Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:22:22 EDT Ex-hostage Jill Carroll back in U.S. |
| Former Iraq hostage Jill Carroll has left Frankfurt aboard a commercial flight bound for the United States. |
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