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...they would be willing to stop charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems if all Americans were required to purchase health plans. Perhaps the next step will be for life and disability insurers to look at their tobacco stocks and, as they say, kick the habit...
...Rodriguez wasn’t the only man named Alex to make headlines for performance enhancement this year. In April, The New Yorker told the story of a very different “Alex”—a recent Harvard grad whose Adderall habit was the centerpiece of a feature documenting the prevalence of neuroenhancers on campus...
...Coining the argot that would come to pervade discussions over the past few months is not foreign territory for Smith, whose habit of careful wording often frustrates Faculty members seeking meaning behind the lingo...
This may not win you any popularity contests. "In most social and workplace environments, asking 'Why?' can seem rude," Sindell acknowledges. "Unfortunately, if we allow ourselves to be forever polite, we will never get into the habit of good thinking. We will get so used to accepting every inanity uttered near us that we will completely lose our critical faculties ... The word why is a wonderful dumb-conversation stopper." Your next brilliant brainchild may not survive Sindell's 11 steps to become viable, let alone profitable, but if his method truly does lead to fewer dumb conversations, let's hope...
...Pyongyang has, in the past, made a habit of annoying China, its only ostensible ally in the world, what must Beijing be thinking now? For most of the past six years, Beijing has been the host and chief promoter of the so-called six-party talks. Their explicit goal: to get North Korea to give up its nuclear-weapons program. When the North launched another long-range ballistic missile in early April, Beijing helped promote the fig leaf at the U.N. Security Council that the rocket carried a communications satellite and thus might not be a direct violation...