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  • Business Fumes Over Carbon Dioxide Rule - WSJ.com about 1 hour ago
    • require businesses that emit carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to make costly changes in machinery to reduce emissions
    • new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project,"
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  • EPA's carbon dioxide emissions ruling could raise energy costs - USATODAY.com about 1 hour ago
    • the EPA, sometime next year, could require big carbon emitters – such as power plants, steel mills, cement makers and others – to put the best available equipment on new and modified plants to curb emissions.
    • Congress could override EPA's regulations or retain them.
  • EPA's CO2 decision was long overdue | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com about 2 hours ago
    • EPA's ruling that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and the environment
    • the conservative U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the EPA has both the authority and an obligation to regulate auto emissions that contribute to global warming
  • Vocal Area Network Concert Calendar about 21 hours ago
    • Friday, December 18, 2009


      7:00 PM

      Manhattan


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      Sing We Enchanted

      (A cappella vocal ensemble)

      "Madrigals & Mistletoe: Songs for the Season"
      The ensemble presents some of the earliest known carols and then turns the page to today's traditional holiday favorites and popular Christmas standards. Audience members will hear European old-time carols, American holiday ballads, and two world premieres composed and arranged by David Macdonald just for the ensemble.

      The Roerich Museum,
      319 West 107th Street


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      Sunday, December 20, 2009


      2:00 PM

      Manhattan


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      		 Early Music New York

      (Vocal and instrumental ensemble)

      "A Renaissance Christmas"

      Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street

      Admission: $40

      For more info: 212-280-0330

      Frederick Renz, director.
  • Editorial - Reform and Medical Costs - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-13
  • Editorial - Reform and Medical Costs - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-13
    • implement or test many reforms
    • f new technologies and new ways to organize work
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  • Editorial - Reform and Medical Costs - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-13
    • independent commission to monitor the pilot programs and recommend changes in Medicare’s payment policies to prod providers to adopt reforms that work.

    • COMPARING TREATMENTS The president’s stimulus package is pumping money into research to compare how well various treatments work. Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its generic competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

      Critics have charged that this sensible idea would lead to rationing of care. (That would be true only if you believed that patients should have an unbridled right to treatments proven to be inferior.) As a result, the bills do not require, as they should, that the results of these studies be used to set payment rates in Medicare.

      Congress needs to find the courage to allow Medicare to pay preferentially for treatments proven to be superior. Sometimes the best treatment might be the most expensive. But over all, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.

  • Daniel Henninger: ObamaJobs: Uncle Sam's Hiring Hall - WSJ.com on 2009-12-11
    • Everyone in politics genuflects in the direction of the job-creation powers of "entrepreneurs" and their ideas. But the generation of Democrats who rose to power with the Obama presidency and the current House majority don't really trust or much like real entrepreneurs
    • Entrepreneurship, the kind that creates industries and jobs on the scale we'll need in the next century, is about two things: Ideas that spring randomly from some slightly crazed dreamer's head; and worse, they often get filthy rich if the dreams are real.
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  • Medicare "Buy-in" Worse Than Public Option - WSJ.com on 2009-12-11
    • Medicare reimburses doctors and hospitals at rates 70% to 80% below those of private insurers, which means below the actual treatment costs in many cities and regions. Providers either eat these losses—about half of U.S. hospitals are running a deficit or close to it
    • The latest polls show public support for the Senate plan falling into the mid-30%-range.
  • Kim Strassel: The EPA's Carbon Bomb Fizzles - WSJ.com on 2009-12-11
    • provide "science" showing that a slightly warmer earth will cause Americans injury or death. Given that most climate scientists admit that a warmer earth could provide "net benefits" to the West, this is a tall order
    • Mr. Obama may emerge from Copehagen with some sort of "deal

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