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Factors associated with increasing nursing home closures 

Purpose. We determine the rate of nursing home closures for 7 years (1999-2005) and examine internal (e.g., quality), organizational (e.g., chain...

Media darlings: positive or negative media coverage can make or break a political campaign, especially in a presidential race. Both McCain and Obama have received favorable coverage, but will it continue? 

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "It almost never happens that there are two media favorites in one political race--and yet this...

Mad dogs and Englishmen: rabies in Britain, 1830-2000 

Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys, Mad dogs and Englishmen: rabies in Britain, 1830-2000, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x, 247,...

Bias in media coverage: an overwhelming majority of the news media have adopted the perspective that global farming is man-made. Such a major issue deserves more unbiased, objective reporting 

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In June 2000 global-warming prophesier Ross Gelbspan lamented, "Over the last seven years, the...

Dangers of an underreported CPI: changes over the past 40 years to the Consumer Price Index have not only provided a poorer reflection of true consumer costs but have actually harmed our economy 

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by households. The government uses the CPI to...

ITE 2008 Annual Meeting and Exhibit in Anaheim, CA, USA: 21st-Century Transportation, The 

In the 78-year history of ITE, the 2008 Annual Meeting and Exhibit in Anaheim, CA, USA, will be only the third one held in southern California....

ITE 2008 Annual Meeting and Exhibit in Anaheim, CA, USA: The Southern California Legacy, The 

In the 78-year history of ITE, the 2008 Annual Meeting and Exhibit in Anaheim, CA, USA, will be only the third one held in southern California....

Lawn Tennis: Ace Williams marches on 

SERENA WILLIAMS cruised menacingly into the fourth round of Wimbledon with a 43-minute victory over Milagros Sequera.

The...

GOOD IDEA 

BURY a banana skin beneath your roses to improve the flower colour - John Fisher, Bakewell, Derbyshire.

Incentives International 

John Fisher outlines the characteristics of an effective cross-border incentive scheme. The pharmaceutical industry is a truly global enterprise,...