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Managed Care February 2006	Managed Care Offered to More Medicaid Enrollees A chart illustrates the percentage of medicaid enrollees in managed care, for the years 1996 to 2004.
Managed Care February 2006	For Drugs, the VA Pays Far Less Than Medicare A recent survey indicates that prices for the top 20 drugs used by Medicare enrollees are much higher than prices negotiated by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006	Plane Talk About Cellphones With the first U.S. auction for radio spectrum for consumer broadband use while in the air on the horizon, the FCC's overall move in the direction of relaxing the ban on the use of personal electronics during flight has made some folks happy -- and many others worried.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Strauss et al.	Unsafe At Any Airspeed? Is it safe to use cellphones on airplanes? The U.S. FCC thinks it may be. But here is proof that cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk to maintaining proper airline instrumentation than you think.
InternetNews February 28, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Bust $50M Online Ponzi Scheme A North Carolina woman and her two companies settled federal charges that she operated a classic Ponzi scheme that generated $50 million on her paid "autosurf" Web site.
InternetNews February 28, 2006 Roy Mark	Protest Over AOL's Pay-to-Send E-mail Plan Advocacy groups from across the political spectrum to rally against AOL's plan to monetize e-mail.
Popular Mechanics December 2005 Benjamin Chertoff	Katrina Images Pictures of New Orleans, southern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast during an intensive examination of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
Reason March 2006 Matt Welch	Old Propaganda and New Bush is wrong to use the Cold War's covert tactics in the new twilight struggle in the Middle East.
Wired March 2006 David Downs	Dragnet, Reinvented The City of Angels is stolen-car hell. But the mean streets just got a lot meaner for bad guys. On patrol with the LAPD's high-speed plate-reading network.
InternetNews February 27, 2006 Ed Sutherland	DoJ: Google Search Request Not a Privacy Threat The Department of Justice has rejected Google's assertion that a government subpoena for search data threatens the privacy of Internet users.
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