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A Big Idea
ePolicy
12.26.2002
Is it possible to catalogue every human idea? Japan-based researcher Darryl Macer thinks so, and last month he proposed in the journal Nature to count the number of human ideas and map them. This plan , while a clever attention grabber, will not succeed and demonstrates a worrisome mode of thinking.
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The Corruption Inherent in the System
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
12.11.2002
Those involved in what PRI calls “grand theft education” often get away with it. But not always, as shown by a recent $4.5 million judgment against outgoing state superintendent of education Delaine Eastin and the California Department of Education (CDE).
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A Troubling Guide for California Education
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
12.5.2002
With so many students in California continuing to perform poorly, the newly proposed state master plan for education has been greatly anticipated. Although accurately recognizing many of the problems facing California’s government-run school system, the plan has very significant flaws.
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The Fraud Mystique
By: Sally C. Pipes
12.4.2002
Rigoberta Menchu is a hot item on the California lecture circuit and for $20 one can hear the 1992 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize hold forth. Newspapers are hailing the Guatemalan – a poor woman whose property was stolen by the government and whose brother was burned to death by the army – as outlined in her book I, Rigoberta Menchu. It’s an inspiring story, but it has a problem. Not much of it is true.
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Hospitals Are Just Playing the Medicare Game
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Chris Middleton
12.1.2002
Gaming the system has always been part and parcel of the federal Medicare program. At its inception, doctors discovered that by increasing their fees they would receive higher Medicare reimbursements in subsequent years. As lawmakers instituted price controls to thwart such tactics, new ways to game the system have arisen. Consider the case of Tenet Healthcare Corp., a large, for-profit hospital chain.
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