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Despite its lack of substance, at least the debate afforded some moments of levity. The funniest line went to McCain who said that if Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan was to die while he was in office McCain would "do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's': I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him, and keep him as long as we could." It's a good thing at least one of the Republican candidates has his finger on the pulse of the American people...
...Thursday Grozny was hammered with the heaviest rocket and artillery fire of the current war. Thousands of rockets and shells rained down on the city, according to the Russian media. The few journalists in the city say hospitals are overflowing. The breakaway government claims more than 4,000 have died, though this cannot be independently confirmed. But Chechen doctors who worked through the last war are grimly confident that once again civilians will be the main target. "Last time one [Chechen] fighter was killed for every 170 civilians," Ayub Baudin, head doctor of a hospital in Shali, about 16 miles...
Jerry Self did not die in vain. Too many of us are living in vain. Maybe we're the ones that need...
...those of you who participated in the Rally for a Living Wage this month, you get big kudos. This is not because I agree one lick with what you're saying, but because you cared enough to do something. Harvard's 1969 protest mentality will never die...
...asking Congress to take strong measures to protect patients from one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. - medical errors. The group issued a report that says such gaffes take a stunning 44,000 to 98,000 lives per year, more than the number of people who die annually in car accidents or from AIDS. The academy's solution? A new federal regulatory agency that would require doctors and hospitals to report deaths to a central database so that the government can analyze the errors and implement preventive measures. At present, doctors are regulated at state level...