Blandford MSA proposals

2002-09-08 Thread ken hanly
If anyone has a critique of these I will forward them to the Healthre list whence it came CHeers, Ken Hanly In my approach to universal health care, www.his.com/robertb/hlthplan.htm I require that there be a mandatory MSA for workers in the same sense as Social Security is mandatory. Some have

Re: McCloskey Post-Autism

2002-09-08 Thread Doyle Saylor
Title: Re: [PEN-L:30109] McCloskey Post-Autism Greetings Economists, JD got back to me quickly about my remarks on 'Autistic Economics'. He plans on replying to my economic thoughts later, but first JD writes, JD Though I say below that autistic economics is bad economics, I don't think

Emergency contraception

2002-09-08 Thread Diane Monaco
[Dear friends and colleagues, please forward the following very usual information by Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner on EC (emergency contraception) to all...but especially young people. Many thanks, Diane] Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 11:15:53 -0400 From: Katha Pollitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

10th Value Theory Conference, CFP

2002-09-08 Thread Drewk
CALL FOR PAPERS 10th ANNUAL MINI-CONFERENCE ON VALUE THEORY Crowne Plaza Manhattan Hotel, February 21-23, 2003 This year we celebrate an important milestone –– the tenth annual mini-conference of the International Working Group on Value Theory (IWGVT). In the face of an increasingly hostile

Re: Blandford MSA proposals

2002-09-08 Thread Gar Lipow
Ok. I looked at the Blanford proposal. It is not really worth spending much time on. Single payer (say the Canadian system) is so obviously better. I'll just make a few points. 1) The system he suggests still relies heavily on private insurers. In the U.S. about 30% (almost 1 in 3) health

Re: Indian questions hi-tech agriculture

2002-09-08 Thread ken hanly
What is this supposed drought resistant farming in the US model. There are certain practices that can conserve water etc. but I have never heard of a system that is immune from droughts. As the article shows the US (and parts of Canada) are experiencing some of the worst drought conditions ever.

Re: Re: Indian questions hi-tech agriculture

2002-09-08 Thread Michael Perelman
He may mean the proliferation of tube wells, which has brought up a bunch of arsenic laced water in Bangladesh. Other than that, I would draw a blank. On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 01:56:11PM -0700, ken hanly wrote: What is this supposed drought resistant farming in the US model. There are certain

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2002-09-08 Thread Bill Rosenberg
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FW: Duke University Receives Grant to Limit Copyright Expansion

2002-09-08 Thread Bill Rosenberg
Duke University Receives Grant to Limit Copyright Expansion An anonymous donor has given $1 million to the Duke University Law School to fund efforts to find the correct balance of copyrighted material and that which is available in the public domain. The money will fund a new center that will

Re: FW: Duke University Receives Grant to Limit Copyright Expansion

2002-09-08 Thread Michael Perelman
This is excellent news. I assume that Duke was chosen because James Boyle teaches there. On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:55:18AM +1200, Bill Rosenberg wrote: Duke University Receives Grant to Limit Copyright Expansion An anonymous donor has given $1 million to the Duke University Law School

NC on Iraq

2002-09-08 Thread Ian Murray
Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes By attacking Iraq, the US will invite a new wave of terrorist attacks Noam Chomsky Monday September 9, 2002 The Guardian September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US

EU vs. the Swiss

2002-09-08 Thread Ian Murray
EU threat to Swiss tax haven secrecy Charlotte Denny Monday September 9, 2002 The Guardian Switzerland is facing the threat of financial sanctions from the European Union unless it lifts the secrecy cloaking its financial system. Finance ministers, enraged at the refusal to hand over

The reluctant imperialists

2002-09-08 Thread Sabri Oncu
The reluctant imperialists By Gerard Baker Financial Times, September 8 2002 It must be one of the cruel jokes history plays on the world from time to time that the one good consequence of September 11 was also the quickest to dissipate. Events a year ago produced waves of sympathy for America.

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2002-09-08 Thread Work from home in your own free time

Re: EU vs. the Swiss

2002-09-08 Thread pms
Some EU member states have said they would give up their own banking secrecy only if Switzerland and five other financial centres outside the EU - the United States, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein and Monaco - were to do the same. How is the US like these places? And how are they

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2002-09-08 Thread Waistline2
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