January 14, 2012
There has been a fair amount written recently about various institutional cartels that are thriving in the US despite antitrust laws designed to prevent their existence. My previous column compared Wall Street’s few remaining investment banks to a cartel, with explicit pricing power over its hundreds of thousands of customers, an advantage that will [...]
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November 13, 2011
A journalist looks at the ‘Newslist’ on the Guardian website on November 10. A British newspaper has thrown open its office doors, let the readers stride in, and invited them to peer over reporters’ shoulders — digitally, at least. The website of the left-leaning Guardian daily is publishing its ‘newslist’ — a schedule of stories [...]
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October 2, 2009
The H1N1 flu virus, also known as swine flu, could create hospital bed shortage in 15 U.S. states, according to a study released on Thursday. Meanwhile, 12 other states could reach or exceed 75 percent of their hospital bed capacity, said the study by the non-profit group Trust for America’s Health. These scenarios could become [...]
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June 20, 2009
A recreation of the conditions at Con Dao Prison, built by the French on Con Dao Island in 1861.LookAtVietnam – A new book series profiles more than 3,200 Vietnamese revolutionaries who died at the Con Dao prison, where generations of freedom fighters and political prisoners were beaten, tortured and killed for over a century. Released [...]
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June 18, 2009
A recreation of the conditions at Con Dao Prison, built by the French on Con Dao Island in 1861. A new book series profiles more than 3,200 Vietnamese revolutionaries who died at the Con Dao prison, where generations of freedom fighters and political prisoners were beaten, tortured and killed for over a century. Released Tuesday, [...]
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April 21, 2009
At nearly 1,000 hospitals in Vietnam, there are no beds for the relatives of patients, who must sleep catch as catch can. The corridor of the HCM City Children’s Hospital. On a recent day, hundreds of people who came to the HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital to care for relatives sat everywhere in the corridors and [...]
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