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RAND Review: Stabilization, Grade Retention, Health Care Costs

RAND Review, our flagship magazine, synthesizes and showcases RAND research on timely issues facing the world.

Winter 2009-2010 — Vol. 33, No. 3

COVER STORY

Shifting Terrain

Stabilization Operations Require a Better Balance Between Civilian and Military Efforts

By Thomas S. Szayna, Nora Bensahel, Terrence K. Kelly, Keith Crane, David E. Mosher, and Beth E. Lachman

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Contents:

Message from the Editor

In Defense of Domestic Analysis

News

Perspectives

State of the Union

The Growing Role of Europe on the World Stage

Features

An Apple a Day

How New York City Schools Turn Grade Retention into Good Medicine

By Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, and Louis T. Mariano

Pilgrim’s Progress

How Massachusetts Could Lead the Way in Controlling Health Care Costs

By Christine E. Eibner

Thomson at Twenty

Insights from the President of RAND

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An Afghan girl collects seeds from the ground at the Women’s Garden in Pul-e-Khumri, 140 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 10, 2009. The U.S. Agency for International Development established the Women’s Garden as a guarded city park to offer a safe place for local women and their children to rest.
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