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...bike riding, he's jogging five miles a day, lifting weights ... Is he preparing for something we don't know about? Some kind of 'every man for himself' scenario comin' down the pike?" --JON STEWART...
...four existing car chargers (sold separately), you can also keep a battery stashed for an emergency juice-up. Just stick the battery in a lipstick-sized case, and snap it to the charging cradle where the tiny headset rests. You can't charge while talking in either scenario, but that would get messy anyway and besides, it only takes three hours to fully charge it up for five hours of talk time. And the AAA battery can be used to charge the headset three times, giving you a total of 15 hours of talk...
...years ago. Unlike during the Cold War, when we felt the specter of atomic warfare breathing down our backs every day and marshaled our country’s whole attention to fight it, today we live in an insulated world where Dr. Strangelove’s doomsday scenario seems like fiction. Although we hear of dirty bombs and nuclear programs, and polls have shown that most Americans fear a nuclear attack, there is not nearly the same level of pressure to deal with the situation immediately. That must change because the present is just as disconcerting as the past...
...Jennifer Dingman of Pueblo, Colo., knows that firsthand. Soon after her mother died in 1995 at age 78 as a result of a series of misdiagnoses and medication errors, Dingman started a patient-advocacy organization called PULSE, or Persons United Limiting Substandards and Errors in health care. "In every scenario, people who have filed lawsuits wish they hadn't had to go through this," she says. "One hundred percent of the time, we hear, 'If only the doctor had apologized...
...that assessment. If the shuttle were deemed unsafe to fly, the crew could take refuge in the space station, waiting out the five weeks it would take to roll out and gas up sister ship Atlantis for a rescue mission. But Wayne Hale, deputy shuttle manager, dismisses that scenario as "remote...