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Without health insurance, a doctor’s visit can cost an entire day’s wages. Janitors have to choose between getting health treatment or paying their rent—and rarely chose the former. For many of Boston’s janitors, getting sick means staying sick, especially as taking time off work, or just getting a good night’s sleep, is often infeasible. Few of Boston’s janitors have health benefits, although workers regularly receive insurance and higher pay in other cities...
...Spain, I went out at night with 3 different age groups of young people—18, 20, and 24—and I never once saw a person sick or passed out from drinking. This is in stark contrast to a night at an American university, where heavy drinking is commonplace...
...multiplatinum pop artist at the height of his career to do a love-sick ballad album is a risk. For him to do it without any meddling from his record company is a minor miracle--and a tribute to Beck's business savvy. When he arrived on the scene with 1993's Loser, a lo-fi novelty hit from which most critics thought he would never recover, Beck was inundated with record offers trying to capitalize on his status as the Slacker Guy. "I could have gone with it," he says. "That could have been my shtick. But I wanted...
...will slide into the left seat of the A320 aircraft's cockpit, fly one of JetBlue's routes and return home to New York City. The following day McAndrew, 59, will no longer be qualified to be an airline pilot. "The government says overnight I'll become old and sick, so I better check into a hospital, right?" he asks mockingly...
When a local group in Santa Cruz, Calif., distributed medical marijuana to sick patients in front of city hall two weeks ago as the mayor looked on, it conjured up images of Woodstock, not of present-day America. But the event, to protest the federal government’s arrest of two local cannabis growers, is an encouraging sign of marijuana’s growing acceptance. The federal government ought to respect states’ decisions about marijuana, rather than blindly enforcing federal statutes...