Readings — From the December 2012 issue
Fulsome Prison
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Why America won’t get the health-care system it needs
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Correctional HMOs and the coming prison plague
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On the managed failure of managed health care
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Why Clinton’s health-care plan won’t cure what ails us
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Article — From the January 1968 issue
Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:
Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.
In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
