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...underachieving machine NASA ever dreamed up got into trouble again, when computers that control the station?s oxygen, water supply and orientation failed. With the three-man station crew just joined by the seven visiting astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis, the specter of Apollo 13 on a grand scale - with 10 astronauts in danger this time instead of merely three - immediately arose. The good news is, the shuttle and station astronauts are in nowhere near the danger the 1970 lunar crew was; in fact, they're not in much danger at all. The bad news is, the station...
...EVEREST 514 Number of climbers who have scaled Mount Everest so far in 2007, the most since it was first conquered in 1953 $25,000 Approximate cost to each climber for the chance to scale the world's tallest peak
...those who receive Medicaid-would join the same system as everyone else; their health-care premiums would be paid by the government. The lower middle class-that is, people who make up to 400% of the federal poverty level-would have their health-insurance payments subsidized on a sliding scale according to income. The second mandate would require insurance companies to cover everyone who applies and charge them the same amount, regardless of pre-existing conditions. (This is called "community rating" in the trade...
...where's the pain? Up the income scale. Health care would no longer be tax deductible. Those with incomes of more than 400% of poverty (about $82,000) would have to pay for their health-insurance premiums themselves. And the insurance industry will certainly yowl over what promises to be a more tightly controlled market. Of the major candidates running for President, only Mitt Romney-a Republican-has actually passed a mandatory universal system, in Massachusetts, which subsidizes health-care premiums for the working poor. So far, two leading Democrats, John Edwards and Barack Obama, have proposed universal plans...
...Prior football clashes between traditional rivals Harvard and Yale combined the pleasures of libation with the rigors of collegiate pigskin, but thanks to a new policy implemented by University Hall, the fall blowout at the hands of the Elis was accompanied by a small-scale Prohibition...