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Insurance companies often treat mental and physical illnesses differently, and those seeking mental health services wait a decade on average before receiving treatment, U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy said at the Institute of Politics yesterday. Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat, spoke on the need to reform health care systems to better address the need for affordable addiction and mental health treatment. The event began with an introduction by Minnesota Congressman Jim Ramstad, who talked about finding himself in a Sioux Falls jail in 1981 before finally seeking treatment for his addiction. According to Ramstad, over 26 million people currently suffer from...
...grimy and raucous. Escape by boat instead, from the town's historic port (you can't miss the old, touristy galleon whose three masts are visible from much of the Old Town) to the Islas del Rosario, an archipelago about 30 miles (1 hour) off the coast. The islands offer proper beaches - though none quite lives up to the postcard-perfect white stretches for which the Caribbean is famous - with snorkeling, scuba-diving and a range of restaurants. I snuck onto the Sofitel's private island for a luxurious, leisurely lunch at the hotel's gourmet restaurant under the mangrove...
...monologues as well as his never-before-performed journal entries, she was able to create a loosely chronological picture of his life.The play started with a vignette inspired by his children and then circled back to Gray’s painfully funny stories of adolescence in a small Rhode Island town. Each actor performed monologues centered on a different thematic element of Gray’s life—his exploits, his sexual encounters, or his fatherly instincts. Four seasoned performers–-Josh Lefkowitz, Ain Gordon, David Cale and Alina Troyana—told stories from Gray?...
...Svalbard is the ultimate backup - or as Fowler calls it, the "Noah's ark of seeds." The vault was built on the far northern Norwegian island of Longyearbyen, where the Arctic cold helps keeps the seeds viable, in case the electricity that powers the vault's cold storage should ever go. (Seeds can remain dormant but alive for centuries if they're kept cool and dry.) The location isn't an accident - should something truly horrific happen, from extreme climate change to nuclear war, remote Svalbard should remain protected, capable of rebooting global agriculture. "This is an insurance policy...
...college, businesses and home mortgages. Suddenly, millions of servicemen were able to afford homes of their own for the first time. As a result, residential construction jumped from 114,000 new homes in 1944 to 1.7 million in 1950. In 1947, William Levitt turned 4,000 acres of Long Island, New York, potato farms into the then largest privately planned housing project in American history. With 30 houses built in assembly-line fashion every day - each with a tree in the front yard - the American subdivision was born...