In the midst of a celebrated career that has taken place almost entirely behind the political curtain, Nancy-Ann DeParle was introduced to a microphone Monday by the President of the United States on live television, and she almost turned it down. “Nancy, do you want to say a little something?” Obama asked her at the end of a ceremony in the East Room
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Spurred by Obama, Health Care Moves to the Front Burner
As part of the $3.5 trillion budget he proposed on Thursday, President Barack Obama is pushing for a down payment on universal health care, a reserve fund of $634 billion over 10 years paid for by higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans and savings from government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
What’s the Best Diet? Eating Less Food
Longer lashes courtesy of the FDA?
The Biology of Belief
Most folks probably couldn’t locate their parietal lobe with a map and a compass. For the record, it’s at the top of your head aft of the frontal lobe, fore of the occipital lobe, north of the temporal lobe. What makes the parietal lobe special is not where it lives but what it does particularly concerning matters of faith