The technical challenge facing the United States is how to finance health care, not whether we can afford to do so. The time-honored financing solution--employerprovided health insurance--is...
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The Voyeurs It's noon. Lhasa lives inside a jaw snaggled with the broken teeth of mountains. Beijing Street—conqueror's renaming—is, except for two policemen cramming rickshaws with ruffled...
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Alien What they never show in sci-fi movies is the alien's glee at being one of her kind. ET may get lonesome, but she's tingling with excitement right down to her light bulb finger-tip at...
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What Woman Has a Country? What woman has a country? Always she's the alien in a male nation, papers disheveled, visa date blurred, her strategies for sanctuary require that she barter self for...
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The Contrary Traveler They ask, "Why do you go to...?" It's not that journey allegorizes life; pilgrims know the fallacy of progress. Travelers are light particles, a sand scrim blown low...
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