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Report Card for California's Government Health-Care Miracles
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
11.28.2007
SACRAMENTO – Last week, medical researchers announced that they had reprogrammed mature human cells to behave like embryonic stem cells. The rejuvenated cells, according to press reports, were able to grow into main tissue types and could thus be used to treat various diseases. That is good news, but the location of the discovery, Japan and Wisconsin, is also of interest.
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California’s Achievement Gap: Is Racism Really the Problem?
Capital Ideas
11.21.2007
SACRAMENTO – Last week State Superintendent of Education Jack O’Connell hosted a weekend summit on the disparity in performance between minority and white/Asian students. O’Connell called this “achievement gap” the “biggest civil rights issue of our time,” and blamed it largely on subtle and inadvertent racism in the classroom.
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The Globalization of Health Care, Round Two
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: Diana M. Ernst
11.13.2007
Medicine is perhaps the least expected of American industries to face global competition, but as businesses become globalized, national boundaries weaken against competitive forces and economic necessity. Today, doctors can work remotely from patients, and patients can choose remote health care. Medical tourism is growing, and that makes it more important for American public policy to streamline health care and allow domestic providers to compete internationally.
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Lessons from the California Wildfires
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
11.8.2007
SACRAMENTO — California is a natural disaster theme park, and major parts of the state have recently been ablaze. The fires forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate, and many returned to find their homes burned to the ground. During this tragedy a strange but instructive event took place.
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No Unisex Brain
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
11.6.2007
In a recent Contrarian about the latest humiliation of Larry Summers, I suggested the possibility of innate differences between inquisitive academics and the closed-minded kind. It turns out something along those lines has already been done. Dave Jorgensen, a friend of the Pacific Research Institute, suggested I consult The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, Ph.D., a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco. She is very qualified, in more ways than one.
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