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...sick--and then some. Unless state law prohibits, they can discriminate--legally--by raising premiums for someone who, for example, has suffered a heart attack and is renewing an individual or small-group policy. Access to a growing body of predictive genetic information would permit insurers to weed out further the riskiest, hence costliest clients or at least make them pay more for their coverage even before illness strikes. Little wonder that insurers would like to know, as Rosen puts it, "as much about your medical history as you know...
...every awaited East Coast comeback seems to require, but "Back Up Off the Wall" had a beat bordering on commercial, and it was still slammin', starting with the hook: "Mad 'cause the life I lead / twice your speed / brown-skinned mami that's the wife I need / light that weed / front, n*gga might just bleed / trying to ball with y'all but I might just flee." Not exactly the moralistic Brand Nubian of yesteryear, but how hot is the triple-syllable rhyme scheme...
According to McGarry, the crushing of the strong twenties `gay culture drove homosexual relationships underground, keeping them under wraps and subject to harassment by police until the '50s. McCarthy's attempts to weed homosexuals out of positions of power then led to the rise of an activist body to counter his political manipulations. Instead of trying to define and establish a unique and separate culture, gay activists decided to strive for assimilation by attempting to establish a niche in society for homosexuals. Queer groups began fighting serious legal battles in the '50s and '60s over the right to distribute homoerotic...
Those would include cable TV, where most of the wire has already been laid; Viacom and Media One Group just unveiled big buybacks. Airlines are in a good spot because even though traffic slows as the economy weakens, industry leaders like AMR and Delta can stop buying planes and weed out old gas guzzlers. Dividend-paying electric utilities tend to have appeal in a weak economy anyway, but with deregulation, some (Consolidated Edison, New England Electric) have shed capital-intensive parts of the business--generating power--to focus on transmission. In trying times, companies able to conserve cash should hold...
...Story' remake," I heard someone else complain; "he didn't do jack with it." "And what about his monotone formats in `Brown Skin Lady?'" "Yo, what the hell is `Yo Yeah,' on the real?" "Yo, `Respiration' is dope and all, but you know them heads was on some weed talk when they came up with `the city's breathing...