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Under the plans from both the House and Senate, these new, government-run, Web-accessible marketplaces for private insurance (along with possibly a public or co-op alternative) could, theoretically at least, make reviewing and purchasing a new health plan as transparent and easy as entering your zip code and clicking your mouse. Certain broad aspects of the exchange concept are widely accepted: the exchanges would put individuals into large risk pools, allowing them to buy health insurance at a significantly lower cost; federal subsidies for individuals too poor to afford insurance on their own would be doled...
...switch on the lights on a specific street whenever they like. All they have to do is register for the scheme online and provide a phone number. Each time they need to see in the dark, they call the Dial4Light number and either recite or enter the six-digit code - which can be found online or on every lamp in each street - that corresponds to the stretch of road they want lit. Within seconds, the lights are on, and they'll stay on long enough for someone to walk from one end of the street to the other. "The scheme...
STEP TWO Call the number and recite or punch in the six-digit code that corresponds to the street you want...
...time, Obama steps away, and Biden reaches for his wedge. The ball miraculously splits the trunks and bounds onto the green, less than 20 feet from the pin. Amid the caravan of golf carts, including those of the Secret Service detail, a doctor and the ever present nuclear-code-toting military aide, there is an eruption of applause. "Calm under pressure," Obama calls out, bequeathing to Biden his own most valued attribute. "That's why he's my Vice President...
...flick and the collectables it spawned rekindled America's appetite for action figures, so Hasbro reintroduced a scaled-down line of G.I. Joes to try and capitalize on the trend. Instead of a single character, there was an entire battalion of G.I. Joes, each given signature weapons, backstories and code names like Scarlett and Snake Eyes. Joe also got a new enemy, Cobra -"a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world," as described in the intro to the 1980s TV cartoon G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. (Cobra operatives got action figures, too.) G.I. Joe was also made into...