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...problem I have with the Angels fanbase is the Rally Monkey. There are two things that I find especially mind-boggling about the Rally Monkey phenomenon. 1) How the heck did it come into being and 2) Why didn’t the winged Christopher Lloyd ever take hold as the rallying symbol...
...Hard to believe, but money is actually only half the problem. The flip side of cutting costs is adding coverage for the nearly 50 million uninsured Americans. To that end, both the House and Senate HELP bills include a public plan that would compete with existing private plans - a highly controversial idea that Republicans say is tantamount to the socialization of health care, but which many Democrats (including Obama) say is essential for any overhaul of the system. The Senate Finance Committee's bill takes a middle-of-the-road approach, including a co-op plan, essentially a nonprofit version...
...There are other thorny issues. The House, for example, envisions giving insurance to about 10 million currently uninsured by broadening the guidelines of Medicaid, the state/federal program for the poor. The problem is that many governors of already cash-strapped states are voicing their opposition to this proposal; while the current bill says Washington would foot the bill for these new Medicaid enrollees, states that are having a hard enough time as it is paying their share of the program are wary of what might happen several years from now. At the same time, Blue Dogs in the House...
...With production reduced, dealers have been working off their swollen supply in recent months and many have offered substantial deals. But the inventory problem has been complicated by widespread dealer shutdowns - no change in inventory but fewer dealers to sell it - so the correction process is far from complete. Carmakers had nearly 3 million units on hand at the end of 2008 and could have any many as 2 million units in stock by the end of 2009, according to an estimate by the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers...
...ultrasound tests and abortions became easier to come by. China banned prenatal sex screening in 1994. Nonetheless, an April study published in the British Medical Journal found China still has 32 million more boys than girls under the age of 20. The total number of young people is a problem as well; factories have reported youth-labor shortages in recent years, a problem that will only get worse. In 2007 there were six adults of working age for every retiree, but by 2040 that ratio is expected to drop to 2 to 1. Analysts fear that with too few children...