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If Critical Condition, the new book by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele [Oct. 11], tells us anything about the health-care crisis, it's that anyone involved can make a buck off someone else's illness. The best way to address the nation's health-care woes is not to create another government agency but to change our illness-based system to a wellness-based system that would reward Americans for staying healthy. Every health-care professional must make a stronger effort to get our children, overstressed adults and seniors into the vast array of wellness, nutrition...
...Williams of the Boston Red Sox looked as fit as an Indian buck ... But as usual Ted Williams had a number of worries at the back of his mind ... On paper the Sox have the best first team in the business, but they are weak "on the bench," i.e., in replacements. Midseason injuries to such mainstays as dependable Bobby Doerr and hustling hard-hitting (39 homers last year) Vernon Stephens could well put the Sox out of the running. Pennants are never won on paper, and for the past two seasons the Sox have been nosed out of the race...
...Crock of Shit” and a selection of over 10,000 accessories draw people to the shop, it is the energetic and amused attitude of its employees that keeps customers there. A place where the manager answers the phone wearing a pair of buck teeth, Four Eyes is the perfect stomping ground for Harvard pranksters. And though a trip to the store requires either a car or most of a day on public transportation, it’s worth...
...same place. For those seeking t-shirts more angry and less quirky, Million Year Picnic on Mt. Auburn Street sells a t-shirt that reads “Blunder-Bush, Bush Lied 800 Died, Fire that Liar.” They also carry a furtively explicit “Buck Fush” t-shirt—familiar to Harvard students who sport “yuck fale” gear every November...
What moves those potential voters? With its emphasis on moral issues, Focus on the Family is trying to buck conventional wisdom, which says, according to polls done for the nonpartisan National Council of La Raza and others, that Hispanics care about education above all, with jobs and the economy a strong second. "They think family values are about putting food on the table and sending a child to college," says Sergio Bendixen, pollster for the New Democrat Network, a centrist Democratic group that is spending more than $6 million on Spanish-language...