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Some observers feel that a clear decline in intellectual standards is taking place in modern society. They attribute this partly to the information age, in which people are presented with information in very small amounts and accept what they are told without questioning it. Standards of television programming are falling, while fewer people are reading books. However, there are ways in which popular television programmes can have a positive effect, especially if they are watched by people in countries with repressive regimes.
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Russian neurosurgeon Guram Mijavanadze aims to set up Russia' first private medical insurance scheme. He has been campaigning since 1989. Mijavanadze works at the Borodenko Neurological Institute in Moscow, Russia. Mijavanadze has 2 regular surgeons, a neurologist and 5 assistants on his staff. He operates on children up to the age of 16 years and his department provides 51 beds. Mijavanadze is negotiating with factories to help launch the insurance scheme as government negotiation has proved fruitless.
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Film director Nora Ephron has had careers in reporting, writing novels and screenwriting before taking up directing. She has been considered risque, fearless, offensive and feminist. She has been married three times. She uses her personal life experiences for material. She wrote screenplays including 'Silkwood' and 'When Harry Met Sally' for ten years before deciding that female film directors were needed to produce films about women. Her first film, 'This Is My Life,' is about sisters.
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