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As lawmakers continue to struggle to find a way to pay for a health reform that could cost $1 trillion or more over the next decade, Barack Obama seems to be opening the door a little wider to an approach that he rejected soundly when John McCain proposed it during last year’s presidential campaign: taxing the health benefits that employers provide their workers.
Heading abroad from the U.S. this summer? Consider packing a few extra dollars
In an unscientific survey of the moviegoing public, conducted by people who wish to make money, parents facing a three-day weekend were found to be a particularly vulnerable subset. During the early weeks of summer, say, Fourth of July weekend, they are at their weakest. Labor Day is only a distant promise
In the five years since Jed Dorfman has been running Camp Walt Whitman, a posh haven complete with waterskiing and private boats in Piermont, N.H., that charges as much as $9,450 for a seven-week stay, he has had to work out payment plans and extend deadlines to help one or two families. Until this year, that is
Two plazas. Two demonstrations. One street apart.
When Yao Ming went down during the third game of the Houston Rockets’ Western Conference semifinals series versus the Los Angeles Lakers on May 8, the big man moaned and slapped the floor. Now it is Chinese fans’ turn to grimace after a team doctor announced Monday that the stress fracture in the Chinese basketball player’s left foot is more serious than previously feared, and could even end the 7’6″ center’s career.
Hong Kong Disneyland — the beleaguered park that has drawn underwhelming reviews for its thin lineup of attractions — needed a lifeline. On Tuesday it got one, when the Hong Kong government and Walt Disney executives reached a deal to expand Disney’s second Asian theme park over the next five years in an attempt to boost sales and stand up to competitors
To become rich and famous in the depression ’30s, a fellow could make movies, play baseball or rob banks.
The picture says it all. The shot of 14-year-old Curtis D.
It has long been assumed that the cavalier behavior of teenagers — driving too fast, engaging in unprotected sex, dabbling in illicit drugs — is due in part to their characteristic disregard for mortality. Teens, as any beleaguered parent of one can attest, usually operate under the presumption that they know it all and will live forever. Or, do they A new study published in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics would suggest precisely the opposite