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...would happen if they did a little work on their own, standing up in the stirrups, bending forward and surfing the motion of the horse as it galloped. What happened was, they went faster - 5% to 7% faster between 1890 and 1900, as more and more riders adopted the idea. That's a huge bump in speed in a sport that invented the term "win by a nose." In 1897, riders in the U.K. began picking up the practice, and by 1910, they were moving faster too. (See pictures of the Royal Ascot...
...Medicaid program. Redefining who is eligible for Medicaid would be one of the major means by which lawmakers hope to achieve universal health coverage - which is one of the reasons that governors, whose budgets are already straining under the program's growing costs, are so wary of the idea. "It depends on what's being proposed," says Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell, a Democrat. "These could essentially be unfunded mandates, and would be enormously destructive to state budgets...
...issue came to a boil as the National Governors Association (NGA) met in Biloxi, Miss. At a luncheon with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius - who until April had been governor of Kansas - her former colleagues vented their anger at the idea of being handed the bill for yet another Washington initiative. Tennessee's Democratic governor, Phil Bredesen, told the New York Times that he regarded the proposed expansion of Medicaid as "the mother of all unfunded mandates" and warned, "Medicaid is a poor vehicle for expanding coverage." (See the top 10 health-care-reform players...
...team,” I traveled to San Diego yesterday morning for the first ballpark installment of A Fan for Sale. After a long week at my real job, I hadn’t really had time to do my research for this game and therefore had no idea what to expect. But talking with Padres closer and All-Star rep Heath Bell, I got the scoop boiled down...
...content to live with the status quo, Palestinians are not - and they are losing faith in the path of negotiations. The expansion of the Israeli presence in East Jerusalem and the West Bank in recent years has eroded faith in the prospects for a territorially viable Palestinian state; the idea of resolving the conflict on the basis of creating two states - a concept that entered the political mainstream almost two decades ago - may have reached its expiration date...