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...sale of a cup of coffee seems like a meaningless thing, but experts report that more than 110 million Americans drink it and total national consumption is more than 300 million cups a day. Part of the reason that so many people pick coffee over other beverages is the health benefits. Medical experts say that modest consumption has physical effects that range from slowing cognitive decline in the elderly to an improvement of the level of serum cholesterol in the blood. But, it is more likely that coffee is attractive because it is a legal stimulant, a drug without...
...world where the distinction between cablecos and telcos has become meaningless, cable operators have an advantage because it's cheaper and easier to retrofit their networks to support voice than to retrofit telephone networks for video and high-speed Internet. The sharp decline Bell Canada has sustained in its core fixed-line business is mirrored in telcos around the world. In the U.S., cable companies added 4.9 million voice subscribers in 2008, bringing their total to 20 million. By contrast, AT&T, Verizon and Qwest lost 10.9 million voice customers last year...
...premise that Mexico is a country sadly divided between chingones (the screwers) and chingados (the screwed). The conservative PAN and liberal PRD at least have identifiable platforms. But even today, if you ask most PRI-istas to articulate their party's political philosophy, you'll get rollo, or meaningless blah-blah. (Read about why the virus seems to be deadlier in Mexico...
...applies ethical theory to the affluence around him. His idea that what we spend money on affects what we don’t spend money on—saving lives, for example—relates closely to Ronell’s considerations of morals in a potentially meaningless existence and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah’s thoughts on what it means to be a cosmopolitan in an ever-shrinking world. Indeed, part of the success of “Examined Life” comes from the flow and interaction between each of the philosophers’ ideas, even...
...anything but over. For one thing, there is the obstacle of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the federal law that makes it illegal for the U.S. government - as opposed to individual states - to recognize gay couples as married. Even talk of federally recognized civil unions is meaningless until DOMA is repealed, since the act also prohibits the appearance of marriage, no matter what the relationship is called. It's why gays can't enjoy the tax benefits that straight couples do, for instance, and why spouses of gay federal employees cannot be covered by government health plans...