“Anyone tired of lousy news from the markets should talk to Douglas Lloyd, director of Venture Business Research, a company that tracks trends in venture capitalism. ‘I expect investment activity in this sector to remain buoyant,’ he said recently. His bouncy mood was inspired by the money gushing into private security and defense companies. He […]
“After gaining control of Congress in 2006, Democratic leaders laid out goals: Achieve energy independence, strengthen national security, grow the economy and create jobs, lower energy prices, and begin to address global warming. The energy legislation now pending in Congress — which raises taxes on the oil industry, repeals incentives designed to increase domestic oil […]
“As middle-class suburban homeowners cling precariously to their dwellings in the midst of the current housing slump, many comfort themselves, as they write out their high mortgage payment checks, that at least their children can attend good neighborhood public schools. Unfortunately for these parents, all too often these supposedly ‘good’ public schools have bad […]
“Senator Barack Obama unveiled his education plan last week, and used the opportunity to promote his presidential campaign theme of bringing people together. In classic Third Way fashion, he argued for ‘a willingness to break free from the same debates that Washington has been engaged in for decades: Democrat versus Republican; voucher versus the status […]
“Suppose that instead of looking at healthcare policy as a means to push an ideology or score political points, we examine it from a pragmatic American vantage point. What works? What does not work? What backfires? Those are the good, the bad, and the ugly, respectively. The table below summarizes our experience in terms of […]
“An estimated 1-in-20 D.C. residents is HIV positive. One in 50 has AIDS. It often takes a stunning document like Monday’s highly publicized Department of Health HIV/AIDS report to cast these well-documented figures in their full, awful relief. Mayor Adrian Fenty has pledged more testing, which is to the good. We suspect, though, that a […]
“A pregnant woman today is a lot more likely to undergo a radiological test — such as an X-ray or CT scan — than a woman who was pregnant a decade ago, according to a new study. Not really a surprise, given the rapid rise in scanning during that time. But still worth noting, given […]
“Even before Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton unveiled her new healthcare plan, Republicans attacked it as socialized medicine. They neglected to mention, however, that her plan bears a striking resemblance to changes that were proposed in 1974 — by the late President Richard M. Nixon. ‘It was an extremely extensive plan, as I remember, that […]
“After 25 years of successive increases, obesity rates in the United States are holding steady, government health officials said on Wednesday. But Americans are still plenty fat, with more than a third of U.S. adults found to be obese in 2005-2006, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That […]
“Higher naturally occurring levels of the male hormone testosterone appear to protect men from fatal heart attacks or strokes and death from all manner of causes, researchers in Britain said on Monday. But the researchers cautioned men not to begin testosterone supplementation based on the results of this 10-year study, saying the benefits and risks […]
