Day: August 15, 2006

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Medicine can be consumer centric

America’s health care system is made up of a patchwork of public and private payers, which many Americans find complex and confusing. The issue is further distorted by claims that American health care is in crisis. However, there is no crisis of “care.” Rather, the United States has a crisis

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Climate porn is counsel of despair

Apocalyptic visions of climate change used by newspapers, environmental groups and the government of the United Kingdom amount to “climate porn,” says the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

Moreover, the IPPR says overuse of alarming images is a “counsel of despair” that makes people feel helpless and is partly commercially

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French youth seek jobs in Britain

Many French graduates have crossed the channel to live in the United Kingdom. Like others, they had only planned to come for a while, but ended up staying. It may be hard to fathom why someone would leave a country with better food, more reliable transport, longer lunch breaks and

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Nuclear power back in favour

Fossil fuel prices – and particularly the price of natural gas, which fuels most recently-constructed power plants – have soared in recent years, re-igniting interest in nuclear power with economists, legislators, and the general public, says James Taylor, managing editor of Environment & Climate News.

In response, General Electric and

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Socialism in reverse

The 20th Anniversary Edition of the Reason Foundation’s annual global privatisation report by Robert Poole and other scholars chronicles the sweeping economic changes in Great Britain and the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and more recently in China and the former communist nations of Eastern Europe,

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