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Winthrop House residents who tire of the dining hall, take heart—for once, you can go out to dinner, and the House will pick up the tab...
...feeling less than triumphant. Some of it is just the inevitable morning-after blues. But there's more to it than that. As we sweep up the confetti and pack away the unsold T shirts, we find ourselves struggling with a huge fiscal hangover. By latest estimates, the Olympic tab will be twice the initial forecast of $5.5 billion. Greece's public debt is already more than 100% of gdp and its budget deficit is in breach of the European Commission's 3% ceiling. Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis should feel no shame in asking the U.S. (Britain and Israel...
With the heavy cost of prescription drugs weighing on patients, states that wind up with part of the tab are taking action to help consumers lower their bills. Illinois announced last week that it plans to set up a website and toll-free phone number to help residents buy cheaper prescriptions from Canada, Ireland and Britain. That program, which Illinois estimates will cut prices 25% to 50%, follows in the footsteps of ones already in place in Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and North Dakota. Meanwhile, New York launched a website last week that enables its residents to compare the prices...
...late Rev. Maurice Grammond, abused more than 50 children, welcomed the platform of a full trial and demanded damages totaling at least $155 million. That raised a startling financial specter, and Vlazny, whose small archdiocese has already paid out $53 million in settlements, felt unable to cover the possible tab. He claimed that insurance companies had "abandoned" him. Such balkiness on payouts has increased, with insurers often citing a 1996 court ruling excusing them if their client did not merely overlook abuse by a priest but knew enough to expect...
...wouldn't be such a big deal if the problem were simply aesthetic. But excess poundage takes a terrible toll on the human body, significantly increasing the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, infertility, gall-bladder disease, osteoarthritis and many forms of cancer. The total medical tab for illnesses related to obesity is $117 billion a year--and climbing--according to the Surgeon General, and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported in March that poor diet and physical inactivity could soon overtake tobacco as the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. And again...