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...register is by providing your ID and password,” Ho said. “That information is kept; you show [your] ID to match your ID number and pick up your ticket...
...14th opinion piece “Make Like a Democrat,” cites a figure of 47 million uninsured Americans. This oft-quoted statistic is actually a gross overestimation of the problem—recent research suggests that the number of Americans who cannot currently afford health insurance is much lower...
...Players' Crusade Carson is one of a growing number of former pros who have begun to petition the NFL for help in dealing with their deteriorating health and finances. Carson and Kyle Turley, a former NFL offensive lineman who has had post-concussive symptoms like vomiting, vertigo and headaches, have emerged as advocates for improved health care benefits for retired players. Dwight Harrison, an NFL player for 10 years who retired in 1980, symbolizes football's blight. His postconcussion syndrome has robbed him of short-term memory and left him severely depressed. He lives in a trailer in Texas...
...government intervene now? President Obama has in the past expressed support for a playoff system in college football - a goal whose gravity and significance pale in comparison with the goal of reducing the number of brain injuries occurring at all levels of football. Congress has rarely hesitated to assert its right to police professional sports, from pressuring baseball to enforce tougher steroid penalties to threatening to end the NFL's antitrust exemption. Hearings that shed further light on football's concussion crisis would be a more productive use of the power of the congressional subpoena. (See pictures of eccentric college...
...know when you've arrived by the number of American military aircraft lining the runway. Located 25 km north of the capital Bishkek, the U.S. air base at Manas - Kyrgyzstan's main airport - briefly hit international headlines after the Kyrgyz parliament, under pressure from Russia and China, voted to shut it down in 2009. The U.S government's offer to pay much higher rent meant that the base (now officially called a Transit Center in deference to local sensibilities) survived the threat of closure. It remains today as an embarkation point for troops bound for Afghanistan, and a reminder...