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To the Editor:

Re “Shortage of Doctors Proves Obstacle to Obama Goals” (front page, April 27), about a lack of primary care providers :

As those of us responsible for delivering health care know, the battle between specialists and primary care doctors has been going on for years, and one side has been winning.

The marketplace has rewarded specialists financially, and like any other special interests, they are amply financed for this conflict. Still, I don’t fault them. They have studied and worked hard, and are responding to market incentives, like good red-blooded Americans.

What we really need is a European-style single-payer system, with primary care doctors who emerge from their training with European-style debt loads: zero.

Georganne Chapin
Tarrytown, N.Y., April 27, 2009

The writer is president and chief executive of the Hudson Health Plan, a not-for-profit managed care organization. Read more..

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 It wouldn’t be hard to argue that The Bronx are on a steady decline. When the band first played Phoenix, they were at the area’s biggest club-type venue, the Marquee. Then, last year, they played the much smaller Clubhouse. Last night they were crammed in to the tiny (but wonderful) Yucca Tap Room.

The size of the venue didn’t seem to have any negative effect on the Los Angeles hardcore band though, as they lived up to their reputation as one of the best live acts around with a wild set that saw moshing all the way back to the merch table, where two diligent employees had to brace themselves against incoming sweaty, bearded and heavily-tattooed dudes. Read more..

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ALBUQUERQUE, Dec. 30 (UPI) — A New Mexico researcher says the rap music that emerged from New York in the 1970s had its roots in a medieval Scottish tradition.

Professor Ferenc Szasz of the University of New Mexico said modern rap, which was developed by African-American youths in New York’s Bronx borough, descended from the Scottish practice of “flyting,” which involved the trading of elaborate rhyming insults, The Sun reported Monday.

Szasz said his research found Scottish colonialists in the United States taught flyting to slaves on plantations in the South. Read more..

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