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Missouri's new restriction concerning minors is already having an impact. Missouri has become the first state to extend its parental-notification law beyond its state line, a move aimed across the Mississippi River at the Hope Clinic, a low-slung building that sits amid a vast industrial park in Granite City, Ill. A recent morning found a security guard posted out front and a waiting room filled with anxious-looking young women, along with a few boyfriends, husbands and children. Because Illinois has no parental-notification law, Hope Clinic had been the easiest option for Missouri teens seeking...
...eligible recipients, has almost 30 plans, all with different premiums, deductibles, co-pays and covered drugs--has bewildered seniors trying to choose. But that confusion is only part of what has gone wrong. The main reason for the problems of the past three weeks is that the vast majority of enrollees--20.4 million of 24 million--already had some kind of drug benefit, in many cases Medicaid, and were automatically switched to Part D. Their information had to make its way through several layers of private and public bureaucracy for the new system to work. Medicare allowed people to sign...
...people to get away from the complexities of modern life and back to the "restful absolutes" of the past ... In the cowboy's world, justice is the result of direct action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there is all outdoors to hide in. And he is not talk...
...Congress is in session. Instead of dropping by two fund raisers a night in Washington, lobbyists would have to wait until recesses, making it harder to convert last night's donation into tomorrow's amendment. By lightening schedules, a ban would improve lawmakers' lives but flatten the capital's vast catering and events economy. Still, quipped a Midwestern lawmaker, "it would be the best airline bailout we could ever pass," since more fund raisers would take place out of town. Chance of passage...
...seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded...