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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
- 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.
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- - 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.
  - Tim Hemensley - indie musician, member of GOD, heroin overdose
  - 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.
  - Florence Ballard (32) - musician, The Supremes, cardiac arrest strongly exacerbated by long-term drug abuse.
  - 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).
  - Toy Caldwell (45) - musician, Marshall Tucker Band.
    Casey Calvert (26) - guitarist of Hawthorne Heights, accidental drug overdose through mixture of opiates, citalopram, and clonazepam.
  - 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.
  - Tim Buckley (28) - rock and roll musician, heroin overdose.
  - Mike Bloomfield (36) - blues guitarist, heroin overdose.
  - Paul Gardiner (25) - musician, Tubeway Army, drug overdose.
What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body - Yahoo! Health on 2009-11-02
- Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health.
- one study discovered that drinking one or more soft drinks a day — and it didn’t matter whether it was diet or regular — led to a 30% greater chance of weight gain around the belly.
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- - aspartame has been linked to obesity. The process of stimulating the brain causes more cravings for sweets and leads to carbohydrate loading.
  - Beverages with bubbles contain phosphoric acid, which can severely deplete the blood calcium levels
  - This means that drinking sodas and carbonated water increases your risk of osteoporosis.
  - Caffeine can deplete the body’s calcium, in addition to stimulating your central nervous system and contributing to stress, a racing mind, and insomnia.
  - Black, green, white, and oolong teas all contain antioxidant polyphenols. In fact, tea ranks as high or higher than many fruits and vegetables on the ORAC scale, the score that measures antioxidant potential of plant-based foods.
Too Little of a Good Thing - Op-Ed Columnist Paul Krugman -NYTimes.com on 2009-11-02
Editorial Notebook - Memphis - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-02
Shameful Illinois prosecutors go after student investigators | Salon on 2009-10-27
- the subpoena demands "the grades, grading criteria, class syllabus, expense reports and e-mail messages of the journalism students themselves."
- During interviews the students conducted, several key witnesses recanted their testimony. The students have already turned over videotapes of these interviews to prosecutors. Prosecutors should question these witnesses rather than fishing for the students' personal materials.
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- - The outcome of this matter could turn on whether a judge treats the students as "journalists" under Illinois law. If the students are journalists, their work is protected from disclosure.
  - The prosecutors are uncomfortable with the idea of shielding journalists who investigate and publicize "inadequacies" in the criminal justice system. But having an additional "check" on the government is one of the strongest justifications for vigorously protecting the work of journalists.
The Mismeasure of Woman - Op-Ed Joanne Lipman - NYTimes.com on 2009-10-25