James Fallows Is Shrill (Health Care Edition)

On health care: > Let’s mark this moment in the health debate as it happens: Nearly fifteen years ago, after the collapse of the Clinton health -reform effort, I spent a lot of time working on an Atlantic article (and subsequent book …

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HighTouch: Education: Adopting the worst practices to make the …

The NYTimes has this interesting article on: In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History, Where it has some interesting things on electronic textbooks I found the comments on the future of education of most interest. …

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Derek's Blog » History of the internet

Seems that I have been doing a lot of reflecting lately about the distance we’ve traversed since the internet became a part of our lives, and the impact of this technology on almost every part of society. So it was of interest when I …

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Bending the Curve Requires Health Care Reform, Not Just Sick Care …

As President Obama and Congress struggle to bend the rising cost curve in order to make health care available to all Americans, the history of the first great expansion of health care coverage when Lyndon Johnson drove Medicare and …

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» Reading by the Light of Perverted Science – Blogger News Network

Not surprisingly, this “ science ” proves a bit of a hard sell to most populations, even the German’s of the 1930’s. So shrewd politicians dress it up with pretty little rationalizations. Eugenics, for example, justified unspeakable …

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openSUSE News » Reminder: Weekly News Team Meeting

We are pleased to invite you (Editors/Translators) to the Weekly- News Team Meeting. The Topics from our Meeting are placed in: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/Meetings/Topics_current

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Punchline Magazine Blog » Woman is first to earn stand-up comedy …

“The course teaches that comedy isn’t just about sitting around telling jokes. There’s a whole history of performance that dates back to the Greeks and the Romans,” course leader Dr. Chris Ritchie, a former stand-up, told the Daily Mail …

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