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...Serial short-term policies. Each successive policy you purchase treats you as a new beneficiary, so changes in your health may later be considered a pre-existing condition...
...Temporary or short-term policies. Buying into these plans may disqualify you from comprehensive long-term coverage later, especially if you have a pre-existing condition...
Twitter is an online service you can use to send out short (140 characters or less) notes to the world via the Web, IM and text-messaging. People use it to issue updates about what they're doing, eating, seeing, feeling, etc., to their family, friends and whoever else might be following them. ("Following" is Twitterspeak for signing up to receive somebody's "tweets," which is what the individual updates are, adorably, called. Tweets are a bit like the status updates on Facebook, but without the Facebook.) (See the best social networking applications...
...This is nothing short of a phenomenal development. Students and locals alike should be ecstatic to see Boston taking real steps toward an initiative that will both improve our daily lives and have a tangible impact on environmental responsibility...
...economic downturn.” But, with Japan in recession, Europe in recession, and the U.S. in recession, it is high time we face our fears: We are living through a global recession. Still, the worst may be yet to come—if policymakers continue to push for short-sighted economic nationalism, they will make sure this becomes the worst bogeyman of them all: a global depression...