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...that sounds like a lot of trouble to put your loved ones through, several companies are eager to help you plan ahead - for a fee, of course. Legacy Locker, Asset Lock and Deathswitch are among the firms offering encrypted space for people to store their passwords and other information. "Digital legacy is at best misunderstood and at worst not thought about," says Legacy Locker founder Jeremy Toeman, who came up with the idea for his company midflight, when he was imagining what would happen to his many Web domains if the plane crashed. "I would be surprised if five years...
...spent fundraising, although outside of election years, August is a slow month for events. Some members go on official trips, visiting troops or joining fact-finding missions or trade delegations. This year several lawmakers will spend their time stumping for (or against) President Obama's health-care plan. Once that's all done, though, many take actual vacations: Arizona Representative Raul Grijalva plans to spend four days in a cabin near the Grand Canyon. There he will "read a book that is pointless and have no phone service," he says. "Perfect...
...issue is that these guys get tried and be brought to justice. Let's get [them] convicted and just move on.' JIM RICHES, a retired deputy fire chief whose firefighter son died in the Sept. 11 attacks; Riches visited Gitmo this year and supports Obama's plan...
Privately, White House officials have been downplaying the importance of a public plan, saying it is far more important to focus on the structure and the regulations surrounding the state insurance exchanges that would be created as the marketplace for insurance under a revamped health-care system. These exchanges would give purchasers of health insurance, whether they be individuals or businesses, an option of plans to choose from, all of them offering at least a minimum package of benefits and a guarantee against exclusion for pre-existing health conditions. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has even gone...
...this big news? What started the flurry was a comment on CNN's State of the Union by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that a government-run plan is "not the essential element" of the Obama Administration's drive to overhaul the country's health-care system. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs echoed that point on CBS's Face the Nation, where he said that Obama's "bottom line" is that there should be "choice and competition in the insurance market." Hardly a new development, considering that the White House and the President have been sounding pretty...