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...antireform liberals Joe Klein disparages in "Village Idiots" [Jan. 11]. While the value of the health care reform bill is debatable--30 million people may get coverage that may or may not be worthwhile--I can't understand why anyone would not be outraged that the government is forcing them to buy private insurance from an industry that routinely pays CEOs seven figures while denying sick, dying people coverage. How is that not outrageous...
...Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares looks familiar, that's probably because his image recently appeared on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists--next to Osama bin Laden's name. In an effort to depict how the elusive al-Qaeda leader, now 52, may have aged over the past decade, an FBI forensic artist took a photo of Llamazares from the Internet and merged it with bin Laden's features. The bureau has apologized to Llamazares and removed the picture from its website...
...Congress passed a law that recognized the disputed territory as part of its Tierra del Fuego province. On Jan. 18 the British government rejected the gambit, saying there is "no doubt" that Britain remains the islands' rightful owner. Recent indications that there could be oil reserves surrounding the territory may have sparked the attempted landgrab...
...more I've studied this question, the more I realize it's not just the content of our diet; it's our eating life. Are we eating alone? Are we eating at tables? Are we snacking? All these things may turn out to matter a lot to our health. We stress over food--that can't be good for us either. One of the things I hope to do with this book is help people relax a little bit about food...
...watery eyes. They gaze at a wheelchair-bound child and fill helplessly with sympathy, empathy, pathos. They glint with a steely resolve when he thinks of a way to prolong the lives of his ailing kids. And when he fights to bring a crucial medication to fruition, viewers' eyes may mist up a bit as well. Such is the emotive impact of the movie genre known as the true-life inspirational...