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...many cases to plans that did not cover the drugs they took. Insurers are supposed to cover 30-day emergency supplies of medicines that are not included in their plan, but many companies are stonewalling on fulfilling that guarantee. So many seniors have had to pay out of pocket for their drugs or go without. Medicare promised subsidies to poor people for their co-payments and deductibles, but insurers still do not have complete information on who is eligible for the extra help...
...effectively gave him back his freedom. In overturning Carter’s conviction, the court wrote that “the trial had been based completely on racism and not on legal evidence.” Carter, who still carries the original writ in his breast pocket, repeatedly referred to habeas corpus as “the great writ” and said that without it he would have “languished and died behind bars...
...curiosity has led him beyond book restoration and into other, more creative, pursuits. A self-taught inventor, he’s eager to show his collection of scientific patents to anyone who drops by his shop.His most recent invention is a visual stethoscope, which resembles a pocket-sized flying saucer with lights that pulse in time with the patient’s heartbeat. He explains that he designed it for use in ambulances, where it can be impossible to hear a pulse clearly.For Marshall, inspiration often strikes in peculiar ways. He says that the idea for a visual stethoscope came...
...Randall claims that these dimensions could be infinitely large provided that space has a warped geometry. In effect, we could be living in a three-dimensional pocket of higher dimensional space. Randall refers to these pockets in space as branes. Like a bead on a wire that can only move along one dimension, a brane may restrict our motion to three dimensions although other dimensions exist...
ANATOMY OF A STRIKE Anyone can throw a strike by hitting the pocket just to the right or left of the No. 1, or front, pin. But doing it consistently requires an understanding of how the ball travels...