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Months to Live - Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death - Series - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-28
'When Giants Walked the Earth - A Biography of Led Zeppelin,' by Mick Wall - Review - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-26
How American Health Care Killed My Father - The Atlantic (September 2009) on 2009-12-26
Economic Reasons Found for College Dropouts - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-11
Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Journalism on 2009-12-02
The Wrong Side of History - Op-Ed NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-20
- These days, the critics of Medicare have come around because it manifestly works. Life expectancy for people who have reached the age of 65 has risen significantly. America is no longer shamed by elderly Americans suffering for lack of medical care.
  Yet although America’s elderly are now cared for, our children are not.
- Indeed, these same arguments we hear today against health reform were used even earlier, to attack President Franklin Roosevelt’s call for Social Security. It was denounced as a socialist program that would compete with private insurers and add to Americans’ tax burden so as to kill jobs.
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- - The heirs of those who opposed Medicare are conjuring the same bogymen — only this time they claim to be protecting Medicare.
The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings : NPR on 2009-11-17
America’s Defining Choice - Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof- NYTimes.com on 2009-11-13
- These two choices have something in common — each has a bill of around $100 billion per year. So one question is whether we’re better off spending that money blowing up things in Helmand Province or building up things in America.
- health care legislation pays for itself, according to the Congressional Budget Office, while the deployment in Afghanistan is unfinanced and will raise our budget deficits and undermine our long-term economic security.
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- - So doesn’t it seem odd to hear hawks say that health reform is fiscally irresponsible, while in the next breath they cheer a larger deployment of troops in Afghanistan?
  - Meanwhile, lack of health insurance kills about 45,000 Americans a year, according to a Harvard study released in September. So which is the greater danger to our homeland security, the Taliban or our dysfunctional insurance system?
7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School | Copyblogger on 2009-11-08
List of drug-related deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-11-02
- Florence Ballard (32) - musician, The Supremes, cardiac arrest strongly exacerbated by long-term drug abuse.
- Mike Bloomfield (36) - blues guitarist, heroin overdose.
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- - Tim Buckley (28) - rock and roll musician, heroin overdose.
  - Chad Butler (aka "Pimp C") - rap musician, accidental overdose of Promethazine/Codeine "syrup" mixed with a pre-existing medical condition, sleep apnea^[1]^[2].
    Paul Butterfield (44) - musician, drug and alcohol overdose.
  - Bryan Ottoson (27) - musician, American Head Charge, accidental prescription-drug overdose.
  - Delphine Neid - musician, The Nuns, drugs overdose.
    Joachim Nielsen (36) - rock musician in the band Jokke & Valentinerne, drug overdose
    Bradley Nowell (28) - musician, Sublime, heroin overdose.
  - Jim Morrison (27) - musician, The Doors, heart failure, alcohol abuse (cause and fact of death disputed).
    Billy Murcia - musician, the New York Dolls, accidental suffocation after drugs and alcohol.
    Brent Mydland (37) - musician, keyboardist, of the Grateful Dead, cocaine/morphine overdose.
  - Keith Moon (32) - musician, the Who, accidental overdose on anti-seizure medication prescribed for alcoholism.
  - David McComb (36) - musician, The Triffids, heroin overdose.
    Jimmy McCulloch (26) - musician with Wings, guitarist, heroin overdose.
    Robbie McIntosh (24) - musician, Average White Band, heroin overdose.
  - Billy Mackenzie (39) - musician, the Associates, overdosed on temazepam, amitriptyline, and paracetamol (suicide).
  - Phil Lynott (36) - musician, Thin Lizzy, health breakdown caused by a heroin overdose. (speedball.)
  - Frankie Lymon (25) - musician, doo wop singer, heroin overdose.
  - John Kahn (48) - musician, Jerry Garcia Band, complications of heart disease, heroin, cocaine, and antidepressants found in his body.
  - Janis Joplin (27) - rock and roll and blues musician, heroin overdose.
    Rick James (56)- musician Died August 6, 2004 of a drug induced heart-attack
    
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  - Rob Jones (a.k.a. The Bass Thing) - musician - former bassist of The Wonder Stuff, heroin/cocaine/alcohol overdose.
  - Michael Jackson (50) - musician, heart attack due to drug overdose.
  - Steven Ronald "Stevo" Jensen - musician, The Vandals, prescription drug overdose.
  - James Honeyman-Scott (25) - musician, the Pretenders, cocaine overdose.
    Shannon Hoon (28) - musician, singer in Blind Melon, cocaine overdose.
  - Hollywood Fats (32) - musician, heroin overdose.
  - Jimi Hendrix (27) - rock and roll musician, respiratory arrest caused by alcohol and barbiturate overdose and vomit inhalation.
  - Toy Caldwell (45) - musician, Marshall Tucker Band.
    Casey Calvert (26) - guitarist of Hawthorne Heights, accidental drug overdose through mixture of opiates, citalopram, and clonazepam.
  - Eddie Hazel (42) - musician, guitarist, of the P-funk collective, liver failure.
  - Bobby Hatfield (63) - musician, The Righteous Brothers, heart attack triggered by cocaine overdose.
    Tim Hardin (39) - folk musician, heroin and morphine overdose.
  - Paul Gonsalves (53) - jazz tenor saxophonist, Duke Ellington, narcotics overdose
    Gribouille (26) - singer, drugs overdose.
  - Dwayne Goettel (31) - musician, Skinny Puppy, heroin overdose.
  - Lowell George (34) - musician, Little Feat, heart attack - habitual drug abuse probable cause.
  - Paul Gardiner (25) - musician, Tubeway Army, drug overdose.
  - Zac Foley (31)^[4] - musician, EMF, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, temazepam, barbiturates and alcohol in bloodstream.
  - Pete Farndon (31) - musician, the Pretenders, drowned/ heroin overdose.
  - John Entwistle (57) - musician, bassist for the Who, died from heart failure brought upon by cocaine use.
    Brian Epstein (32) - Manager of The Beatles, accidental sleeping pill overdose.
    Howie Epstein (47) - musician, ex-bassist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, heroin overdose^[3].
  - Nick Drake (26) - musician, anti-depressant overdose, disputed suicide.
  - Kevin DuBrow (52) - rock vocalist, cocaine overdose.
  - John Dougherty - musician, Flipper, heroin overdose.
  - Tommy Dorsey (51) - jazz musician and bandleader, choked to death while sleeping with the aid of drugs.
  - DJ Screw (29) - musician, heart attack thought to be result of codeine overdose.
  - Jesse Ed Davis (43) - guitarist, session musician, drug overdose.
  - Pamela Courson (27) - common law wife of Jim Morrison of The Doors, heroin overdose.
    Carl Crack (30) - musician, Atari Teenage Riot, drug overdose.
    Darby Crash (22) - punk musician, of The Germs, suicide by heroin overdose.
    Robbin Crosby (42) - musician, ex-Ratt, contracted HIV as a result of long-time heroin addiction and died of a heroin overdose.
  - Brian Cole (29) - musician, the Association, heroin overdose.
  - Sonny Clark (31) - musician, hard bop pianist, heroin overdose.
    Steve Clark (30) - musician, Def Leppard, accidential death (anti-depressants, painkillers and alcohol).
  - Tim Hemensley - indie musician, member of GOD, heroin overdose