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From the asian edition of Reader's Digest 4/2006                                Singapore      Thailand   India      USA Coronary angiogram     2,450          1,141       550      24893 Coronary bypass        11,000        16,483     9,000     83,919 Knee replacement       8,133          8,113 ...

Hello There is some talk on the board about GIM. This is on my watch list and I have been watching it sink since Sept. Any ideas on how low it will go and how it will react? It now has a 6.06% yield and a 8.86% discount. It opened at 9.00 on sept 7 and is now 7.92 The biggest historical...

I found this in the newspaper about a national hospital (in Japan) near me. I guess you need to be a man and take the pain.  :o http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20050831p2a00m0na006000c.html Surgeon abuses, slaps restless patient during operation A Shiga Hospital doctor has been...

This NY Times article had Greenspan's recent stuff about housing. But the stuff about risk caught my eye especially the last paragragh here. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/27/business/27greenspan.html ...Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, warned on Friday that people have...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/opinion/14kristof.html "The winner of the first annual Michael Eisner Award is Andrew Wiederhorn, the chairman and chief executive of the Fog Cutter Capital Group, a publicly held company based here in Portland. Actually, as the company's Web site notes...

NPR had a interesting article on the Costa Rica property boom. http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/07/28/PM200507284.html This connects to a real audio file. Mike

Hi Since I have started posting (after stalking the boards for a long time), I thought I should introduce myself. I am an Ohio boy in Kyoto. In all I have been here for 14 years. I am not on an expat package. I started teaching English in a conversation school factory and worked up from there...