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...Democrats, health care has long??been a merciless minefield. Hillary Clinton's disastrous effort to transform the system in her husband's first term nearly cost him the presidency. After that, politicians pretty much stopped talking about the subject except to offer marginal and politically unassailable fixes, like covering more children or requiring insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing health conditions...
Doctors have long??that an active lifestyle and sensible eating habits can help keep people who are at high risk of Type 2 diabetes from developing the condition. But taking diabetes medication before you have symptoms also helps. A study of more than 5,000 prediabetic men and women found that treatment with rosiglitazone, a drug that controls blood-sugar levels, decreased their risk of progressing to diabetes 62%. About half the participants who were given the drug returned to normal blood-sugar levels, compared with 30% of those who relied on diet and exercise alone. About 41 million Americans...
During the Web's infancy---long??before Google was a site, let alone a verb--AOL reigned supreme and alone. But 17 years after modems squawked onto the debut dial-ups, competition has sped ahead, and AOL may finally be ditching its once lucrative subscription model for a more promising ad-driven approach...
Among politiblogs, Ana Marie Cox, above, has long???in cyberterms anyway?reigned as queen. Her bawdy take on Washington made WONKETTE a must read. But with her novel Dog Days out and a big country to shill to, it was time to abdicate. Her successors: Alex Pareene, a sometime guest editor at GAWKER, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney David Lat, who had secretly written the blawg UNDERNEATH THEIR ROBES in the guise of a lusty, law-loving female. Lat quit his government job last month and trumpeted his new gig by blogging, "You can't keep a good...
...consolation that gay Catholics have long??had is that the church hates only sin, not sinners. Yes, many of us are far from perfect, and like most married, heterosexual Catholics, we have been known to have sex without making a baby. But we were, as the Vatican assured us in official documents in 1975 and '86, "made in the image and likeness of God." The condition of homosexuality was, for many, "innate" and not in itself a sin. Gay people were "often generous and giving of themselves," said the Vatican, and the notion that gays could not lead celibate lives...