This is the campus of Stanford University, one of americas great schools. This is the memorial church. This is memorial theater. And this is the library on war, revolution and peace. I am meeting a Great American and an old friend. I am here to have a talk with the 31st president of the United States, mr. Herbert hoover. Sit down, ray. Thank you, sir. Can you tell us what it means . Well, it is the library on war, revolution and peace. The purpose of it is to present the complete history of this world since the beginning of First World War i. It has many objectives. One of them is to aid in development of measures of peace. It covers economic, military, other questions. It is now the haven of historians from all over the world. Because the german war library was destroyed in the last war, the french war library was destroyed and the British War Library was greatly damaged, this is practically the only complete story of what has happened in the last 50 years. How do the idea of the libr
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Areina kirsh inner. Battle is getting worse near debaltseve. The rail railway junction, near the rebel stronghold of donetsk. There is also shelling in luhansk. This is not just an attack of the ukrainian sector, but the minsk result. After minsk the offensive operation of russia, intensified significantly. At least 25 have been killed since the ceasefire was signed. Charles stratford reports from the front line there. Ukrainian tanks behind me are in a support position for what is believed to be 8,000 ukrainian soldiers in the town of debaltseve. Separatists say they have surrounded the town. Become a major stronghold, if the separatists take control of debaltseve, it will give them a direct route via rally way to russia. Ukrainian fighting close by. Everything is destroyed said this ambulance driver, you cant get into town and there are dead bodies on the road. We pushed up further towards debaltseve. Were here at a Ukrainian Army check point. There is a lot of heavy weaponry going t
The change that has gone on in the American Economy is such and the growth of the American Healthcare system is such that in communities run the country, hospitals are the major employer or certainly one of the major employers. Cedarssinai is the sixth largest private employer in los angeles county, just as an example. At the same time, all of us have to recognize that as organizations, we are going to have to be more efficient. We are going to have to figure out how to deliver care in ways we have not thought of until now. Technologies are that are coming along, whether that technology is in the form of new discoveries around Molecular Medicine and other things that allow total cost of care. We have to work on the issue of total cost of care, not just the unit cost. We have to work on both, keeping in mind what is the total cost of care. Over time, using the International Comparison that john mentioned earlier, if you look at what are the reasons for that, i think your observation is