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...Treatment is easier too, with options ranging from diet and exercise to statins and surgery. Prevention is key. Everyone should get his or her blood pressure tested and cholesterol checked at least once a year. Nobody should ever smoke, but now that women know they are especially vulnerable, they owe it to their hearts--and their loved ones--to quit. --With reporting by A. Chris Gajilan/New York...
Some, such as Andrew Carnegie, argue that the rich owe a debt to the society that enabled them to create their wealth. I argue the society always continues to benefit them—higher taxes should be seen more like the monthly phone bill than a debt payoff. If you are a low-wage earner with minimal possessions who rents, what do you lose with an invasion? But, if you own the worker’s apartment building, you lose proportionately more, and so on. Therefore, the richer you are, the more you have to lose, the more you always...
...rations and their commanding officers. G.I.s everywhere laughed, or nodded in rueful recognition. Mauldin combined the satiric eye and brush of a Daumier with the ear of a Ring Lardner. He captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled men: "I need a couple guys what don't owe me no money for a little routine patrol." His war works won Mauldin a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, and the 23-year-old, who'd grown up poor in the Southwest, found himself an uncomfortable celebrity. "If I see a stuffed shirt," he once remarked, "I want to punch...
...charismatic TV reporter with a journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley. They're a devout but cosmopolitan bunch, and they've taken their director's special standing in stride. After two months of shooting, they treat him with casual affection and a deference that seems to owe as much to his incisive wit and encyclopedic knowledge of film as to his exalted position or Buddhist training...
...There is also the issue of Pickering's standing as a judge, says McGinnis. The White House may feel they owe Pickering that much: a chance to be evaluated by a more equitable audience. A Republican-controlled Senate is more likely to examine his past in the context of legal philosophy and practice rather than under the microscope of a single ruling. "The question this time, if they get past the filibuster, will be whether Pickering is a sound judge. And if you look at his record, he is," says McGinnis. "He hasn't been reversed very often." Pickering...