Medicare costs spark debate on private insurance option
A National Bipartisan Commission studies Medicare future noting deficits as 75 percent of physician payments rely on general revenues. A plan to cap costs may shift beneficiaries to private insurance with remaining costs covered out of pocket. Separate figures show highway fatalities at 42,000 in 1997 and aviation deaths easing to 976, with the Guam Boeing 747 and other disasters cited.
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Sadarn Ni Loemalrare
Sartar Eynarts
Witihddusiue Pidiluy
Income plays major role in college choice study
A federal Education Department study of 13 000 eighth graders from 1988 finds low income students with strong test scores less likely to attend college than peers from higher income families. By six years later about 63 percent were in college, while 57 percent of low income group cited inability to afford college.
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Education Department
Former Afghan prime minister Hekmatyar killed in Takhar
Taliban sources say Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, once prime minister and anti Taliban leader, was shot by three gunmen in Takhar province. The claim could not be independently confirmed. He fled to Iran after 1996 and later returned to lead an anti Taliban coalition.
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Afghanistan
Taliban
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Takhar
Hekmatyar
Iran
Badakshan
Tiny island’s bid for independence falls short
Nevis, a 7 mile island with 9 000 residents, failed to reach the 67 percent referendum threshold to secede from St. Kitts. Preliminary results show 62 percent in favor with 2 427 yes and 1 498 no, dampening Premier Vance Amory’s independence drive as voters cited uncertainty about secession.
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St. Kitts
Nevis
Vance Amory
Ecuador president calls for peace amid Peru border standoff
New Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad urged regional unity in an inaugural speech to Congress and offered to meet Peru's leader Alberto Fujimori to negotiate a peaceful settlement. He called for defusing tensions after Peru alleged Ecuadorian troops crossed the border in a disputed area, a claim Ecuador denied.
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Ecuador
Peru
Jamil Mahuad
Alberto Fujimori
Mahuad
Congress
U S envoy presses Kosovo talks amid clashes
U S envoy Christopher Hill met with both Serb and Albanian representatives in Pristina as sporadic fighting continued in Kosovo. He seeks a unified Albanian leadership amid tensions between Ibrahim Rugova and Mehmet Hajrizi after five months of Kosovo Liberation Army clashes with Serb troops.
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Yugoslavia
Kosovo
Christopher Hill
Kosovo Liberation Army
Hill
Ibrahim Rugova
Mehmet Hajrizi
Serbia
Geminsat
Mars meteorite from Sahara sheds light on red planet
British scientists positively identified a 4.8 pound Sahara meteorite as from Mars, the 13th confirmed Martian rock among about 20,000 found. The Lacks 15 meteorite could reveal past environmental conditions on Mars and aid life-search efforts, says Pillinger of Owen University. The rock’s age remains unknown, but it likely sailed from Mars years ago after a collision, landing on Earth.
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Sahara Desert
Mars
Red Planet
Mara
Colin Pillinger
Planetary Sciences Research Institute
Owen University
Milton Keynes
Tanui
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