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Our health-care system suffers from problems of cost, access and quality, and needs major reform. Tax policy drives employment-based insurance; this begets overinsurance and drives costs upward while creating inequities for t (Read More)
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In a presidential debate in October 2008, moderator Tom Brokaw asked, “Is health care in America a privilege, a right, or a responsibility?” When Barack Obama answered, “I think it should be a right for every American,” he wa (Read More)
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During World War II, Turkish diplomats saved Turkish Jews living in France (many were French citizens others were holding Turkish passports) from certain death, a fact of which the Anglophone world was ignorant until Stanford (Read More)
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Each night after falling asleep, the demons keep coming back. They personify the millions of victims of the Second World War; infants, adolescents, young men and women, and the elderly who suffocated in the gas chambers or we (Read More)
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In an opinion article in Nature today, a group of J. Craig Venter Institute and Scripps Translational Science Institute researchers say they found discrepancies in results from two DTC genetics companies, prompting them to of (Read More)
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Playing the opening slot under U2's jaw-dropping Claw would probably scare off only the most established of musicians. But Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme is of a different opinion ... | Source | . (Read More)
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If Martin Luther King, Jr. hadn’t been taken from us 41 years ago, one can only imagine the way his head would spin at popular and political misremembrances of his legacy and memory. I thought of this most recently while dri (Read More)
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Reluctant as he may be, President Barack Obama faces a defining moment in the Afghan war. General Stanley McChrystal’s call for more troops, as much as it is a bid to change the course of the conflict, hits Obama at a moment (Read More)
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Dr. Tristram Hunt is one of Britain’s best known young historians. Educated at Cambridge and Chicago Universities, he is lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London and author of Building Jerusalem: The Ri (Read More)
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Wal-Mart's plans to build a second store in Chicago remain bottled up in the Chicago City Council. The store that Wal-Mart would like to build on the South Side at 83rd Street and Stewart Avenue, is going nowhere because the (Read More)
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By Kosuke Takahashi TOKYO - History sometimes throws up wonderful ironies: in Japan, a rising grandson is about to destroy his grandfather's legacy. With opinion polls suggesting a massive ... ... Source. (Read More)
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We gotta feeling tonight's gonna be a real good night for the Black Eyed Peas. Thanks to two hit singles (and maybe, just maybe, the inability of a certain blogger's opinion to... ... Source. (Read More)
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President Obama’s honeymoon with the liberal-left appears to be ending as his efforts on behalf of health care, financial, and other reform grow more ideologically questionable. But before a divorce happens, both parties nee (Read More)
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One of the peculiarities of modern war is the fascination it holds for intellectuals. Since the 1890s, in the United States as in Europe, the loudest yelps for blood have been heard some distance from the battlefield. Profes (Read More)
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Author: cruvvie23 Added: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:52:43 -0800 Duration: 0 http:/ www.realestatemarketingnerds.com What are the Best Real Estate Website for Selling Homes on the Internet? In my opinion the best sites - Homes.com, P (Read More)
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Five hundred jobs is a helluva lot better than no jobs at all. In this disastrous economy, company layoffs and plant shutdowns are as plentiful as glazed doughnuts. Meanwhile, for years the City Council has been blocking the (Read More)
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In the remembrances of Walter Cronkite’s remarkable career, none of his television reports has attracted more attention than his famous broadcast about the Tet Offensive in February 1968 in which he concluded that the Vietnam (Read More)
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President Barack Obama threw out the first pitch at Major League Baseball’s All Star Game after flying to the game accompanied by Hall of Famer Willie Mays, and visiting the players in the clubhouse before the game. He also (Read More)
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LONDON DAILY MAIL -- Watching Meg suffer was too much for her mother. Helen decided to find out as much as she could about brain tumours on the internet.When she read about Professor Black and his work at Boston's Brigham and (Read More)
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Malaysia said Wednesday it will dump English as the language of instruction for maths and science in schools, in a highly sensitive decision that has split opinion in the multiethnic country. Deputy p... ... Source. (Read More)