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PROS: Timely. Offers yet another chance to rip apart poorly reasoned naturalistic fallacies. Provides obvious opportunity to take George Michael's "Sex is natural, sex is fun, sex is best when it's one-on-one" lyrics out of context...
...honor system, but some of them cheat. Fraud may account for as much as $75 billion of annual U.S. health-care expenditures, according to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association. Last June California officials uncovered the biggest single medical fraud to date, a $1 billion rip-off carried out by thieves operating clinics on wheels. Investigators say the clinics offered patients free tests and exams, then used their insurance information to generate a huge number of fake bills. In a similar scam in New York City, a doctor billed Medicaid for $50,000 worth of lab tests...
Calling present military spending levels "absurd," Agran said such expenditures indicate America has a "Rip Van Winkle President and a Rip Van Winkle Congress which has just slept through the end of the Cold...
...Green's offense is not the kind of unit that can rip defenses to shreds...
...ball feels like it's made out of steel. It'll just rip your hands when you catch it," he said...