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...receive distant magic signals, and in high school, a teacher nudged him into a radio booth at local station KVOO. Jobs in Salina, Kans., Oklahoma City and Honolulu followed just before Pearl Harbor brought him to Chicago in 1944. He stayed there, hosting a Jobs for G.I. Joe program, adding his signature phrase "the rest of the story" the following year. He got his own show, on WENR, with his wife Lynne, another radio pioneer, serving as producer and co-writer. In 1951 he joined the ABC network with Paul Harvey News and Comment, a title that stuck...
...Healthcare looms as one of the most controversial reforms in this package. Obama proposes to create a $634 billion “reserve fund for healthcare reform.” This national insurance program will spark some long overdue changes—like a national electronic platform for health-care records. Electronic records will make communication and exchange more convenient as well as reduce prescription errors, save lives, and reduce malpractice lawsuits. This efficiency will save taxpayers money in the long run and force modernization for hospitals that might not have otherwise done...
This month, the world’s second largest pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, startled the drug industry and the public-health world by announcing a groundbreaking program intended to extend access to medicines for millions of people living in developing countries. GSK’s proposal is not a perfect solution: Millions of patients in middle-income countries, such as India and Brazil, will be left out of the deal. HIV research is also excluded from parts of the program, and even at reduced prices GSK products may remain out of reach for most patients in Least Developed Countries. Nevertheless...
Intermission - In other ECAC news, besides Harvard's 3-0 win over Cornell last night, all three tournament games ended in overtime. The big sleeper in the conference this season RPI, upset Princeton in extra minutes. That program has really improved since I've started covering this beat. Two years ago, whenever Harvard played RPI, the question was how many Crimson players would get a hat trick. This season, the Engineers tied Harvard in their first meeting...
...Jindal, Gov. Bobby • channeling by of the voice of 30 Rock's Kenneth the NBC page • David Brooks is appalled by speech of • Fox News commentators are appalled by speech of • "volcano monitoring" program is idiotically mocked - "Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C." - by • Washington Post is appalled...