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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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In its 19 years on I Street, Taberna del Alabardero has earned a loyal following among neighboring World Bank and IMF workers and Spanish-food lovers from around the area. But September was a tough month. Weekday lunches remained lively, but weekends were quiet, says Javier...(more)
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The exhibit on prefabricated housing at New York's Museum of Modern Art is visually delightful and informative. But the story it tells is incomplete. It has long been assumed that large-scale prefabrication would lower housing costs by saving time and money through standardization and mass...(more)
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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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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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Considering how adamantly John McCain advocated a "town hall" arrangement for this year's presidential debates, viewers might justifiably have expected him to thrive in the debate held last night in Nashville, since it followed that format. But there was little if any thriving in the...(more)
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The days were so long. Perhaps it was the summertime light, or the horizon, so far away, with nothing to hold one's gaze. It was like waiting, hour after hour, until you no longer knew what you were waiting for. Maou stayed in the dining...(more)
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As the world economy teeters at the abyss and American mattresses start to fill with cash, there's a bracing feeling of optimism at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater. Some people never give up hope, and Suzanne Farrell -- once one of the nation's most important...(more)
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