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Search results for "General American" ...
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Blood of her Blood
The article traces copyright ownership of the works by late writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Specifically it answers the question "Who owns 'Cross Creek'?" It also generally address how copyright laws and inheritance can result in strange or unfair consequences.
Tags: Inheritance; American Literature; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Cross Creek; copyright laws
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One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China
McGregor, the former Wall Street Journal bureau chief in China, wrote this book as a series of narrative stories that reveal what doing business in China a truly like. The book addresses issues like corruption and the rift between culture and politics. It also addresses how the past 50 years of Communism affected not only the business world in China, but also culture in general.
Tags: China; Asia; Communism; business; capitalism; American Chamber of Commerce in China; population growth; economics
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The Story Behind the Story
The American Journalism Review tells the story of alt-weekly Willamette Week breaking the sex scandal involving Oregon political legend Neil Goldschmidt, while the large daily, the Oregonian, stumbled with the story.
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Bad Practices Net Hospitals More Money
This three part series delves into the various problems that plague Medicare. One issue that comes up is how the system is set up so that hospitals get more money for each visit, even if those extra visits are a result of an infection picked up in an unsanitary ward. As a result, the highest quality health care providers end up with substantially less funding. The articles also touch on how the Medicare system encourages unnecessary surgery and a possible conflict of interest with the hospital inspectors.
Tags: Medicare; Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organization; American Medical Association; hospital inspections; doctors; clinics; HMOs; insurance
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The Great Divide
This four-part series reveals that education in Pennsylvania and New Jersey is overwhelmingly not diverse despite 50 years of supposed desegregation. Economic factors often lead to racial segregation, but research shows that "white flight" causes suburban areas to be just as separated as big cities. The private schooling option also steals many white students from public schools. One school district attempts to prove that with effort almost perfect racial balance can be achieved.
Tags: Brown v. Board of Education; school; diversity; minority; black; African American; integration; equal; education; race; segregation; NAACP; white flight; Jim Crow
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Miscount: An Investigative Series
This series was an outgrowth of the problems that plagued Florida during the 2000 presidential election. "Scripps Howard News Service spent a year examining voting records from the 1996, 2000, 2002 and 2004 general elections, looking for and finding significant discrepancies between the number of ballots cast and the number of votes counted for major offices." This investigation helped to uncover failures in election procedures, bad ballot designs, misleading voting instructions, as well as a number of mechanical failures in ballot-counting devices.
Tags: punch - card voting; American Journalism Review; hanging chads; voting; secretary of state; presidential elections; Florida; ballots
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Leave it to Beaver: As Forest Reclaims American East, It's Man vs. Beast
Animal populations in the American East are rising, and causing more and more damage. In particular, larger animals like bear, moose, coyotes, beavers, turkeys and deer are making a comeback. This population chance created a market for "wildlife damage-control professionals". These people, sometimes ex-trappers, make thousands of dollars removing wild animals that people complain about. Nuisance wildlife is now a multi-million dollar business. The article discusses which factors contribute to the growing population, how animals and humans interact, and how state wildlife agencies, along with private companies, are handling the problem.
Tags: nature; animals; beavers; trappers; reforestation; ProPaw
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New pluralism emerges in state
This two-day series by Lewis based on newly released Census figures examines the fact that four of California's five largest cities no longer have an ethnic majority. Pluralities of whites, Hispanics, Asians and blacks have replaced majorities. A sidebar by Hazle discusses the expected increase in political clout for Hispanics and Asians. A sidebar by Johnson describes the complaints of an advocacy group that says despite Asian Americans being the state's fastest growing group, public services have failed to accommodate them.
Tags: Census; demographics; minorities
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New York Slush Funds
The three men who run New York's state government have stuck state taxpayers with more than $1 billion in debt over the last seven years for a series of secretive slush funds under their tight control. State leaders use the money to reward political friends and punish enemies. They use the money to keep rank-and-file legislators obedient. The stories show many examples of millions spent on failed or dubious projects.
Tags: taxpayers; Gov. George Pataki; Sheldon Silver; Joseph Bruno; New York City Catholic art museum; debt; Empire State Development Corp.; State of New York; New York taxpayers; Carnegie Hall; National Baseball Hall of Fame; Carrier Dome; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Centers for Excellence; Empire Opportunity Fund; Junior Museum; capital-improvement programs; Community Enhancement Facilities Assistance Program; Strategic Investment Program; Senate Majority leader; borrowing money; legislators; public money; Kraft Foods; Guardian Industries; Canadian American Transportation Systems; Division of Human Rights; National Museum of Catholic Art and History; New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad; Dormitory Authority; IRS; Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum; Bard College; YMCA; New York's Public Officers Law; Central New York Regional Market; campaign donations; borrowed-money grants
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Perilous Practices: a three-part series on the medical malpractice issue in Ohio
Political ads have been saying that so many doctors are fleeing Ohio over concerns about rising medical malpractice insurance rates that it has caused a health care crisis, in which the public is losing access to vital services. However, a closer look reveals that the doctor supply has not been dramatically diminished by doctors retiring early or moving away from the state. In fact, the number of doctors holding active Ohio medical licenses went up slightly even as insurance rates were exploding.
Tags: medical malpractice; Ohio State Medical Board; Ohio State Medical Association; Medical Liability Monitor; Ohio Supreme Court; U.S. Department of Human Services; Ohio Department of Insurance; American Medical Association; MD Anderson Cancer Center; UC Medical Center; malpractice fees; malpractice insurance; health benefits