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...governor and faces federal corruption charges after allegedly auctioning off Barack Obama's empty U.S. Senate seat - Blagojevich is passing a crystalline afternoon pressing the flesh at a café near his home on Chicago's northwest side, eager to dispel the notion that he's a pariah. In part because Blagojevich is a very good politician, the reception is warmer than you might expect. He embraces an elderly supporter, quizzes a high school track team about its choice of running shoes (these days he clocks seven miles in under an hour) and assures tourists from Detroit that...
...people have been convicted of public corruption since 1970 - may explain why Blagojevich somehow considers dangling a U.S. Senate seat "routine." Even today, the comeback he's attempting to engineer - he told TIME he is "not ruling out the possibility" of a return to politics - is being driven in part by dollars. "We're in debt because I was an honest governor," he says. "O.K.? And now I don't have job prospects. This is among the things that are upside-down. If I ever do this again, I'm going to make sure I take care of my family...
...part of the U.S. health-care apparatus has been more sacrosanct in the current debate than the job-based insurance system that provides coverage for some 160 million Americans, or about 60% of all insured Americans. Yet the numbers behind that system show that it may be just as unsustainable as - if not more than - the U.S. health-care system as a whole, in which costs nationwide are on pace to exceed 20% of our gross domestic product by 2018. Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance increased 131% from 1999 to 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation; over the same...
...they spend for workers' insurance. More and more firms are conducting "dependent audits," weeding out enrollees who don't actually qualify for coverage or charging employees more for dependents who are offered coverage elsewhere, like a wife who could get insurance through her own job but elects to be part of her husband's family plan. Increasing numbers are offering employees a bit of a break on their premiums if they are willing to complete health assessments. (Read "Understanding the Health-Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...
...Sondre Norheim. That relay also featured the torch's first trip in an airplane. (For the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, the torch got an upgrade, flying from Athens to Paris on the famed Concorde jet.) The relay was first televised in 1960, when CBS broadcast part of the route to Rome...