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...second study, Fairbrother concluded that children who were covered by private insurance were over three times more likely than government-insured children to lose their coverage if a parent lost or quit a job. That's a scenario increasingly familiar to Americans. "Higher unemployment figures mean more and more families are ending up uninsured now," Fairbrother says. Moreover, she adds, they're not getting access to the public insurance to which they're entitled, because of budget cuts. "The federal government needs to fund its health-care programs in a way not so exposed to economic cycles...
...saying that, “My responsibility is not to stifle them, but when they clapped at his comment, I thought that crossed the line … I was facing intolerance of ideas and intolerance of freedom of expression.” But cancelling class does in fact mean stifling her students’ views and depriving them of an environment for productive classroom discourse. Accusing her students of a misdeed for which she herself is responsible —“intolerance of freedom of expression”—is simply a case...
...Just because you don’t spend your entire life learning about particle physics doesn’t mean you don’t want to see how it all fits together,” Randall said. “I wanted to make the point that the universe isn’t necessarily so neat, I wanted the public to be able to go beyond the elegance and beauty to understand a physics that matched their reality...
...mean he embargoed all the copies of the report?" I asked...
...Second, making it onto an Olympic team, and pursuing success at the Games, drains the mind and body like no other task on the planet. These young men and women are perfecting races decided by milliseconds, or routines where a tiny hitch can mean the difference between gold - with its millions in potential endorsement dollars - and heading back to that job at Home Depot. Every distraction makes a difference; they can't afford to muddle their minds. "The athletes are doing the right thing, as far as focusing on sport," says USA Gymnastics executive Ron Galimore, a 1980 Olympian. "They...