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Twenty-five million Americans pay for health insurance but have inadequate coverage. There's no magic formula for figuring out how much coverage is enough, but here are a few pitfalls to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Underinsured? | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...that religion plays today and has historically played—can be readily accommodated in other categories.” Harvard students are famous for allowing certain categories of learning outside their comfort zones to slip into obscurity—witness English concentrators filing into “The Magic of Numbers”—but this should not happen to religion...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Fasting and Prayer | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Referred to now-President Obama as "Barack the Magic Negro" and played a song by the same name to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon." As an explanation, Limbaugh said that that the term was historical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Radio Host Rush Limbaugh | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...Paul Harvey Aurandt was born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1918; his father was shot and killed by robbers when Paul was 3. As a kid, he built a radio set to receive distant magic signals, and in high school, a teacher nudged him into a radio booth at local station KVOO. Jobs in Salina, Kans., Oklahoma City and Honolulu followed just before Pearl Harbor brought him to Chicago in 1944. He stayed there, hosting a Jobs for G.I. Joe program, adding his signature phrase "the rest of the story" the following year. He got his own show, on WENR, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Harvey: The End of the Story | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...league, the Big Red has a two-game lead on four contenders tied for second: Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale, all with 6-4 conference marks. The defending champions’ magic number is three to guarantee a return to the NCAAs. If it wins all three, boom, it’s tourney time. Win twice and if each of the other contenders lose once, same result. Lose two of four and one those teams goes 4-for-4 in its remaining games, and we’re looking at a one game Ivy League Tournament...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Harvard Looking To Split Weekend | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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