Growing numbers of foreign patients, including uninsured Americans, are going to India for medical treatment. Proponents say the health care is comparable to much that is available in the United States, and at a far lower cost.
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Winning Ugly – Wisconsin Badgers vs. N.C. State
The first half was rather difficult to watch. Someone mentioned that the game reminded him of the Bennett era game vs. Southwest Missouri State. Commentary around the country:
- Ivan Carter:
If James Naismith had been around to witness Wisconsin’s 65-56 region semifinal victory over North Carolina State on Friday night, he might have wished he had invented something other than basketball.
- Joe LaPointe
Explaining his team’s strategy for coping with Hodge, Ryan said: “You show respect, and then you play. Make him go right a little bit. Make him go left a little bit. I really liked our help defense. We kept him from getting to the rim.”
- Herb Sendek Remarks
- Roger Van Der Horst
This was supposed to have been a renaissance for college basketball in the Triangle, and for a week it was just that, a time when once again all three of its major men’s basketball teams — Duke, N.C. State and North Carolina — were playing deep into the NCAA Tournament. For Duke and State, those sweet few days ended with a thud Friday night, courtesy of two methodical, strong, defensive-minded Big Ten teams.
- Google News (lots of links)
Meanwhile, Ed Cone is pleased that one ACC team survived. Rather unusual for 3 Big Ten teams to make it this far, with only UNC left from the ACC.
Is Microsoft Toast?
The US government proved that Microsoft possessed, and ?illegally exploited, monopoly power in the “antitrust case of the ?century”, the six-year action that ended in July 2004. The Final ?Judgment allowed Microsoft to remain whole, but imposed conditions ?that permit rival software makers to tuck their products into its ?Windows operating system. Anti-Microsoft groups were outraged; a ?spokesman for one said: “This decision represents the failure of ?antitrust laws in the high-tech industry…An unrestrained ?monopolist in the most vibrant sector of the economy cannot be good ?for America.” The critics were right: the Government’s remedies have had little ?impact. Yet today customers are flocking to Microsoft’s competitors. ?Hammered on multiple fronts by opportunistic rivals, the high-flying ?starship of the PC Age has stalled, and many wonder if it will now ?crash and burn..
Feingold 2008 – More
Russ Feingold continues his travels in preparation (?) for a 2008 run for president – wispolitics.
Wet, Wild….. Wisconsin? – The Dells as a Major Destination
The lobby of the Kalahari Waterpark in the Wisconsin Dells at check-in time on a recent Saturday afternoon was equal parts Marx Brothers anarchy, Andy Hardy freckles and “Dude, Where’s My Car?” goofiness. Just as the line to the front desk began moving, five revelers barely into their teens hijacked an empty luggage rack, and with one pushing and four aboard, raced, shrieking, around the lobby, which seemed roughly the size of a par-three nine-hole golf course.
I quickly cruised the lobby in search of my friend Julia, a fine-arts administrator who did not want her last name used because she was embarrassed even to be seen in the Dells. Not finding her, I went back outside and ran into a traffic jam. The gridlock consisted mostly of two types of vehicles trying to get near this hostelry, which has a 125,000-square-foot indoor water park, the largest in the country. On the one hand were the monster-size recreational vehicles, which disgorged the incoming families. Going up against them were teenagers revving the engines of a score of pizza-delivery cars, lined up like impatient taxi drivers at the airport as they waited to drop off their wares and rush back for more.
Good Friday
Wikipedia: Good Friday Google Images
Milwaukee Voter Fraud – Votes Certified, but not…
Greg Borowski continues chasing this story (well worth reading).
Northwest Adds Milwaukee Flights – trying to kill Midwest Airlines
In adding service to Denver, Northwest is creating another direct challenge to Midwest Airlines, which is owned by Oak Creek-based Midwest Air Group Inc. Northwest in February added daily service to Pittsburgh and Toronto, destinations also served by Midwest Airlines.
Note that Northwest is using cramped regional jets, which, I don’t believe will be much of a problem for Midwest to compete with.
Local Media: State Journal Selling Access?
Community activists upset with the Wisconsin State Journal for including a seat on an advisory panel with a $25,000 sponsorship package for a new business journal took their protest to the newspaper offices this morning.
State Journal Publisher Jim Hopson and Editor Ellen Foley met with a half-dozen activists from nonprofit organizations. Both emphatically denied that access to the State Journal is for sale.
“We do not sell access to the State Journal,” Hopson said. “We give it away freely.”
Interesting to see this surface in the State Journal’s sister publication, the Capital Times. Both own and operate Capital Newspapers, a joint operating company where its monopoly is protected by the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970. Background on the 1970 Act: Clusty. Somewhat related, Jay Rosen is calling for the de-certification of the press. The Economist (paid link) also jumps in:
Behind all this lies a shift in the balance of power in the news business. Power is moving away from old-fashioned networks and newspapers; it is swinging towards, on the one hand, smaller news providers (in the case of blogs, towards individuals) and, on the other, to the institutions of government, which have got into the business of providing news more or less directly. Eventually, perhaps, the new world of blogs will provide as much public scrutiny as newspapers and broadcasters once did. But for the moment the shifting balance of power is helping the government behemoth.
Jerry Brown on the Schiavo Case: Florida vs Texas
The death of Sun Hudson – a 6-month-old with a fatal genetic disorder who was taken off life support against his mother’s wishes in a Texas hospital last week – adds some depth to the emotional debate over the fate of Terri Schiavo. The MSM are hanging on every twist and turn in the Schiavo case, and protesters have descended on Florida to denounce what they call “murder.”