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02 Nov 09

List of drug-related deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body - Yahoo! Health

  • 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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Editorial Notebook - Memphis - NYTimes.com

If I had to name the best short story in the form of a song lyric, I suspect the winner would be Chuck Berry’s “Memphis, Tennessee”

link to song for rnr class blog post

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27 Oct 09

Shameful Illinois prosecutors go after student investigators | Salon

What happens when those in power get mad.

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  • 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 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.
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Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American

  • By challenging ourselves to retrieve or generate answers we can improve our recall.
  • Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning.
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10 Oct 09

Igniting the Growth of Jobs - Columnist Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com

"Incredibly, some 40,000 teachers have lost their jobs over the past year, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research."

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  • The latest unemployment rate for California is a knee-buckling 12.2 percent, the highest since World War II.
  • Incredibly, some 40,000 teachers have lost their jobs over the past year, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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The Uneducated American - Paul Krugman - NYTimes.com

The decline of American education ... and America.

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  • laid-off teachers are only part of the story. Even more important is the way that we’re shutting off opportunities.
04 Oct 09

Cracks in the Future - Bob Herbert - NYTimes.com

The death of higher education in California ... and across the nation.

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04 Sep 09

Health Care That Works - Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof - NYTimes.com

We like the VA and Medicare, so why can't we have a public option?

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healthcare health insurance policy politics

  • the biggest weakness of private industry is not inefficiency but unfairness. The business model of private insurance has become, in part, to collect premiums from healthy people and reject those likely to get sick — or, if they start out healthy and then get sick, to find a way to cancel their coverage.
  • A study by the Rand Corporation concluded that compared with a national sample, Americans treated in veterans hospitals “received consistently better care across the board, including screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.” The difference was particularly large in preventive medicine: veterans were nearly 50 percent more likely to receive recommended care than Americans as a whole.
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Until Medical Bills Do Us Part - NYTimes.com

The costs of the current system, especially for the families of those with dementia.

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  • The existing system doesn’t just break up families, it also costs lives. A 2004 study by the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, found that lack of health insurance causes 18,000 unnecessary deaths a year. That’s one person slipping through the cracks and dying every half an hour.
  • Long-term care constitutes a difficult and expensive challenge in any health system. But the American patchwork, full of cracks through which people fall, has a special problem with medical expenses of all kinds bankrupting couples.

    A study reported in The American Journal of Medicine this month found that 62 percent of American bankruptcies are linked to medical bills. These medical bankruptcies had increased nearly 50 percent in just six years. Astonishingly, 78 percent of these people actually had health insurance, but the gaps and inadequacies left them unprotected when they were hit by devastating bills.

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Moderate Drinking Over 60 May Lower Dementia Risk - NYTimes.com

  • moderate alcohol consumption can increase HDL, or “good cholesterol,” improve blood flow to the brain and decrease blood coagulation. All three factors may reduce the risk for dementia.

Poynter Online - Where are J-Schools in Great Debate over Journalism's Future?

J-Schools: missing the boat.

"...journalism schools too face a crisis of competence and confidence. We have to agree that while much remains that is good, some of what we do is outmoded and badly needs to be fixed. To survive, journalism schools have to become much more intellectually and professionally ambitious."

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J-school journalism future of news

  • The relations between professors and the profession seem curiously stunted
  • journalism schools are not adequately engaged with the great public debates over the future of their core sector. 
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27 Aug 09

Health Care Fit for Animals - Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof - NYTimes.com

A former health insurance exec repents his evil ways.

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  • in 2007 Mr. Potter attended a premiere of “Sicko,” Michael Moore’s excoriating film about the American health care system. Mr. Potter was taking notes so that he could prepare a propaganda counterblast — but he found himself agreeing with a great deal of the film.
  • A month later, Mr. Potter was back home in Tennessee, visiting his parents, and dropped in on a three-day charity program at a county fairgrounds to provide medical care for patients who could not afford doctors. Long lines of people were waiting in the rain, and patients were being examined and treated in public in stalls intended for livestock.

    “It was a life-changing event to witness that,” he remembered.

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