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Business leaders fear that John McCain’s proposal to revamp taxation of health benefits would help to erode employer-sponsored health insurance.
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Studies are finding that “elderspeak,” the sweetly belittling form of address that has always rankled older people, can have health consequences.
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A task force has recommended stopping colorectal cancer screening at age 75 for people who have no evidence of disease.
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Charlie Gasparino was so anxious to get on the air that he phoned in to CNBC, rather than walking to the studio, to report that nervous federal authorities were considering a bailout of the insurance giant AIG. "I was sweating through my underwear. That was...(more)
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In early 1980, John McCain was a man in transition -- and in a hurry. Nine months earlier, at a cocktail reception in Hawaii, he met a glamorous young heiress named Cindy Lou Hensley and, by all accounts, fell instantly in love. McCain spent months...(more)
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Michael Phelps’s mother recalls the struggles that her son had with attention-deficit disorder before he became an Olympic swimmer.
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Turns out, when a network puts fewer, and shorter, ad breaks in a TV series, you like it, and tend to be more inclined to sit through those commercials. This revolutionary discovery was made by media buyer Magna in looking at early returns on Fox's...(more)
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At least 25 percent of the world's wild mammals are at risk of extinction, according to a survey released yesterday. Mammals that live on land face hunting and the loss of their habitat, while those that live in the water are threatened by pollution and...(more)
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It was probably no surprise to the Limas household in Chicago that daughter Arlene grew up to be a fighter. Being raised in a house with four brothers, she said, was like living in a carnival funhouse: You never knew what would spring from around...(more)
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Once upon a time, vacations remained true to the Latin root of the word - empty. After vacating one's home and voiding one's schedule, you emptied your mind while slurping an alcoholic slushie from a bendy straw.
But lately the travel industry has been seized by a...(more)
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BALTIMORE (AP) -- Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who's blind, such a scenario - as shown in the movie "Blindness" - is not a clever allegory for a breakdown in society....
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