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..."People are worried because health-care costs are growing faster than the average American's income, and it's only going to get more intense as boomers retire at an increasing pace," says Len Nichols, health-care economist at The New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute in Washington...LINK

Google co-founder Larry Page made a rare trip to Washington this week. No, he wasn't lobbying for net neutrality or being grilled about Internet censorship in China. It was all about the white spaces -- and Google's growing fixation with wireless communications.

With opposition mounting, Page came to bolster Google's push to gain public access to these white spaces, slivers of wireless spectrum between the broadcast channels used by TV stations. . .

During his May 22 speech to the… more

The following article is a positive and well-deserved profile of Tim Wu -- quoting Chris Sacca of Google -- that plays off the impact of his New America paper on wireless net neutrality. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on New America's Leadership Council.

"Tim Wu, Freedom Fighter: His wireless-phone manifesto was the inspiration for Google's new mobile-software strategy, which includes the Open Handset Alliance." 

On Nov. 5, Google (GOOG) unveiled what many in the phone business had long awaited. CEO… more

The most dangerous thing being produced in China is neither lead paint-laden toy cars nor magnet-spewing Polly Pocket dolls and Batman action figures. Rather, it is a booming capitalist culture that, far too often, places value over values.

This reality was brought home again this week, as Mattel announced its second big recall of Chinese-made merchandise in a fortnight. The news, coming on the heels of Chinese food, drugs, and other items being recalled or fingered as… more

...Some drug industry critics are not so surprised that advertising oversight has slackened. "The question is whether the industry has gotten better at complying with the rules or the FDA has gotten worse at enforcing them. It's probably a combination of the two," says Shannon Brownlee, author of the new book Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer...

The book describes how the industry fought the FDA to loosen ad restrictions on the basis of… more

If I may borrow someone else's adaptation, soon everyone will be famous for 15 people on the Web. That can even be where wider-world fame starts, because the Net is both farm team and idea incubator from which traditional players steal new notions and talent...Middle-aged pundits Mickey Kaus, author of the long-running blog kausfiles, and Robert Wright, a senior fellow at the centrist think tank New America Foundation, will never get massive on MySpace. But Wright's site bloggingheads.tv,… more

Remember last year's efforts to fix Social Security? In this era of instant news cycles, it is easy to forget. But even though the politicians bungled efforts to restructure the program last year, the issue has not disappeared. Roughly 77 million baby boomers are still preparing to retire. They still don't have enough kids and grandkids to pay the taxes needed to support them in the style to which they'd like to become accustomed. And, in the long run, Social… more