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...combat wakefulness, Americans filled more than 50 million prescriptions in 2008 for sleeping pills like Ambien and spent more than $600 million on over-the-counter sleep-inducing supplements such as melatonin and valerian root. Others seek medical treatment or psychological therapy to get to sleep, while the rest of us accept our nocturnal tossing and turning as just another of life's unavoidable nuisances and gulp an extra cup of coffee the next morning to compensate. (See the Year in Health, from...
Sudden illness may be what scares most people, but chronic conditions place the greatest strain on health care. Around 75% of the U.S.'s $2 trillion annual health-care expenditure goes toward ailments such as heart disease, asthma, diabetes and certain cancers, and the vast majority of that is spent when these conditions require hospitalization and emergency care. The problem is particularly acute in the U.S. public sector: over 20% of U.S. Medicare patients have five or more chronic illnesses...
...below the national average, less than 40% of villages have electricity and most of the roads are unpaved. The Congress Party isn't alone in its failures. In this election, every party, including the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), made the same vague promises about development and then spent the rest of their time scheming to make alliances for some future coalition government...
...expensing everything from improvements to second homes to their spouse's porn - have led to popular outrage in Britain and claimed the scalp of the Speaker of the House of Commons, a supposedly above-the-fray symbol of Parliament's reputation. The scandal has exposed what anyone who has spent time in the House of Commons knows well; that many of its members are has-beens and never-will-bes, self-important rhetoricians inebriated (as one truly great parliamentarian said of another) with the exuberance of their own verbosity...
Being an RMIT (alas, there are very few RWITs) is a good thing, reports the author. He spent two years studying the most successful self-made person in each of 100 U.S. towns. The poorest of these folks is worth more than $100 million, and half are billionaires. Does money buy happiness? Well, yes, Jones reports: "RMITs love the lives they have created for themselves." He crunches the numbers and gives his advice about joining the élite club ("Get Addicted to Ambition," "Fail to Succeed"). But most important, keep...