Last week I speculated that after the media coverage generated by his chauffeur-driven 100m dash, Welsh Secretary David Jones might travel to this week's cabinet meeting on foot.

BBC: Welsh Secretary walks and talks

The IPO quiet period expired, analysts at the investment banks that took Yelp public this morning picked up coverage of the Web-based consumer-driven recommendation service.

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Yet it was No. 4 among albums that got the most coverage by music blogs, a ranking driven by its placement on many best-of-the-year roundups as calculated by the website Hype Machine.

WSJ: Not Your Granny's Grammys

Switzerland's consumer-driven health care system points the way: The Swiss have universal coverage, spend 40% less and enjoy an excellent, private health care system.

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Smith has an opportunity to learn from the impressive success of Medicaid reform under Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, in which Indiana was actually able to expand coverage by shifting the structure of Medicaid insurance from the traditional, World War II model to a modern, consumer-driven one.

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