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Rolling out of bed to the sounds of the marching band on JFK Street, I thought that this past Saturday was going to be a football game like any other...
...Geisinger uses a little of all three strategies. Founded in 1915 as a 70-bed hospital in a small, underserved rural community, the operation now spans a 43-county region, with a total of 67 sites - stretching from one-doctor offices and in-store clinics to a sprawling main campus in Danville, Pa. Like Kaiser, the 13,000-employee Geisinger is both a care provider and an insurer. About 30% of its 783,000 patients have the in-house coverage; the remaining 70% are covered by other private insurers or Medicare...
...fact, the characters themselves are existential questions. Each occupies himself with an interminable quest: Wacholder wants to destroy his doppelganger figure Würz; but Aslan wants to write literary masterpieces, copies others instead; Leo never leaves his bed and only thinks about existence. Their stories—if there are any—unfold through their pathetic attempts to reach the unreachable. Wacholder, for example, tries to eliminate Würz, who might as well be Wacholder himself, by writing him half threatening and half incomprehensible letters; by inventing imaginary, toxic juice; or by simply thinking that...
...calm so familiar from televised poker tournaments. And yet Ian, who works with a student group at Harvard and requested that his real name not be used for this piece, is very much a poker player—a professional online, who says he has not gone to bed until nine this morning after a marathon game...
...uncertainty of residency and the constant threat of arrest takes its toll on the children. Parents report nightmares, bed-wetting and clinginess. "I've been there in that situation they are going through right now. I was illegal and I was afraid whenever I saw men in uniforms," says Jenalyn Zuno, 22, a Filipina granted permanent residency in 2006. (See the top 10 most surprising facts about the world's oldest bible...