Sep 06, 2009 -
If the GOP really believes that merely counseling people about end of life planning equals death panels and pushing euthanasia, I can't wait to hear how they spin this
After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think they may have found one.
The bankers plan to buy “life settlements,” life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash — $400,000 for a $1 million policy, say, depending on the life expectancy of the insured person.
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Feb 10, 2009 -
* PUBLIC POST *
Since I'm home this morning I'm scanning some headlines, and when you follow a link from a link, etc., sometimes you run into some interesting stuff.
I stumbled across this sad story, and I honestly believe this would not have happened in the US.
Yes, we know that American medical care is expensive, in part because they run a lot of "unnecessary" tests.
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Nov 20, 2008 -
Hmmm...
By: Mike Allen/Politico
November 20, 2008 04:03 PM EST
Pollster John Zogby has rejected a conservative commentator’s offer to sponsor a poll to test the knowledge of people who voted for John McCain.
The commentator was proposing to mirror a poll of Obama voters that caused a political uproar when it suggested that Obama supporters didn’t know what they were voting for.
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Jul 16, 2007 -
Yes, here on the Sugar Network we are wrapping up our wedding coverage. The honeymoon may be over, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get physical with your honey.
Now that you are settling back into "real-life" and life as a married couple, I suggest scheduling some exercise time together.
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Aug 02, 2008 -
I feel that every so often the beauty product that millions of us use is re-invented.
Lancôme plans to release a new $34 mascara this fall but what's the big deal you may ask, it's just another new masacara promising fuller lashes. Well according to Jean-Louis Guéret - “The brush, which is battery operated, provides 7,000 micro-oscillations per minute.
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Jun 22, 2008 -
QUINTON, Va. - A Virginia man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every meal at McDonald's. Not Big Macs, french fries and chocolate shakes.
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Jun 03, 2008 -
Make sure to scroll down so you can see all of the photos! The green wig is my favorite! :D Gorgeous!
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Apr 08, 2008 -
Okay, not only is the first evening of Stanley Cup Playoffs commencing, it would have been my mother's birthday too. This July, it will be two years since she passed. She was a BIG hockey fan.
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Nov 12, 2007 -
The AFI Festival delivered an early screening of Juno as its Centerpiece Gala that also doubled as a red carpet event in the Cinerama Dome at the Arclight. There were uniformed joggers, complete with uncomfortably short yellow shorts, stirring attention outside the theater as they jogged around urging people to go see Juno on December 5th. Unfortunately, the festival had tandem screenings and we were in a theater upstairs.
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