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...It’s always great to beat a team like Union, ranked 16th nationally and tied for number one spot [in the conference],” captain Alex Biega said. “It gives you a little bit more confidence going into the game. You can grip your stick a little less going into the weekend...
...called them “twixters.” People are settling down later, having children later, and it seems we can wait as long as we want to grow up. We are the product of society in which, perhaps more than ever before, age is really just a number. Independence and responsibility, the things that American society tends to associate with adulthood, are embraced by different people at different times...
...former members of Congress find it so much easier to get along across the aisle after they retire? Interviews with a number of them suggested answers that are sometimes surprising and trends that are daunting. It's not just the obvious political pressures of messaging for re-election, they said, but also the pressures of fundraising and time...
...called risk pool less healthy, and therefore more expensive to insure. (Waxman, in a follow-up letter to WellPoint, asked the company to explain why data show that it had more individually insured customers in California in 2009 than in 2008. But it's not just the total number of customers that determines rates in a risk pool - the health of those customers also matters. It's also not surprising that more people are enrolling in individual coverage with the unemployment rate high and people losing job-based insurance...
...That's true; but the UNICEF registry, if it can really reach out to an appreciable number of Haitian kids, could at least show Haitians an alternative to their troubling tradition of discarding children in the face of poverty and all the country's other hardships. Meanwhile, the project may want to add the 33 children the Idaho Baptists tried to carry away. As the case gets resolved, they're being housed in a Haitian orphanage - which to child advocates like de la Soudiere is the real Philistine victory...