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20 Nov 09

Op-Ed Columnist - The Big Squander - NYTimes.com

  • So it seemed only fair for them to bear part of the cost of the bailout, which they could have done by accepting a “haircut” on the amounts A.I.G. owed them. Indeed, the government asked them to do just that. But they said no — and that was the end of the story. Taxpayers not only ended up honoring foolish promises made by other people, they ended up doing so at 100 cents on the dollar.
  • So officials could have called on bankers to offer a better deal, for their own sake, and simultaneously threatened to name and shame those who balked.
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18 Nov 09

Recommended Books - Salon.com

  • As Yagoda writes, the memoir has an advantage over the novel in that "it is easier to do fairly well." For mediocre writers, it is indeed a godsend, offering them not only a greater chance of publication but also a greater likelihood of producing a decent book.
  • Literature, to my mind, starts from some sort of personal space -- and then it has to go beyond that. Whatever experience you may have had, whatever stories you might have to tell about yourself, they have to be transformed into something that's meaningful beyond yourself. And because it's transformed at some point, it stops being about you. The person in my fiction is not my life, so we can talk about it. If it were my life, what would you have to say about it? Memoir is not subject to interpretation. That is antithetical to literature. Confessional space is solipsistic: I'm the only one there, you don't get to enter."
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Fat Pride Community Pushes Back in Health Care Debate - NYTimes.com

  • “All national health insurance systems are built on the idea that we’re all part of a community, we all get sick and die, so we’re going to take care of one another,” said James Morone, a professor of political science and urban studies at Brown University. “The best philosophical way to stop national health insurance is to say we’re not a community, it’s ‘us vs. them.’ ”
09 Oct 09

WPI Finds High Levels of Retrovirus in ME/CFS Patients - Page 6 - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Forums (ME/CFS Forums) at the PHOENIX RISING

  • a so-called passenger virus that is simply infecting patients whose immune systems have been suppressed by other causes.

WPI Finds High Levels of Retrovirus in ME/CFS Patients - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Forums (ME/CFS Forums) at the PHOENIX RISING

  • "NCI is responding like it did in the early days of HIV," says Stuart Le Grice, head of the Center of Excellence in HIV/AIDS and cancer virology at NCI and one of the organizers of the July workshop.
  • The virus creates an underlying immune deficiency, which might make people vulnerable to a range of diseases, said Judy Mikovits of the Whittemore Peterson Institute and one of the lead authors on the paper.
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29 Sep 09

Keeping Iran honest | Scott Ritter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

  • or more likely, an attempt on the part of Iran to provide for strategic depth and survivability of its nuclear programme in the face of repeated threats on the part of the US and Israel to bomb its nuclear infrastructure.
  • The need to create a mechanism of economic survival in the face of the real threat of either US or Israeli military action is probably the most likely explanation behind the Qom facility.

Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

  • On the contrary, as opponents of sanctions keep saying, a tighter sanctions regime will harm internal political opposition to the regime, increase the political-military establishment’s hold on the economy and cause Iranians to rally behind their government in the face of outside hostility.
  • the far more likely way to obtain the outcome we want is through consensual agreement. 
28 Sep 09

Annals of Science: Darwin’s Surprise : The New Yorker

  • It is still not clear how they function, but they may help subvert the immune system, which would permit cancer cells to grow without restraint.
16 Sep 09

Op-Ed Columnist - The Body Count at Home - NYTimes.com

  • After Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans, eight years ago on Friday, we went to war and spent hundreds of billions of dollars ensuring that this would not happen again. Yet every two months, that many people die because of our failure to provide universal insurance — and yet many members of Congress want us to do nothing?
15 Sep 09

Wait a Second. Why Shouldn’t We Insure Illegals? | Print Article | Newsweek.com

  • it stands to reason that including the relatively healthy, relatively employable and largely uninsured illegal population in some sort of universal health-care system would be a boon rather than a burden.
  • If you're really worried about the native-born workforce, what you want to do is minimize the differences in labor costs between different types of workers. A health care policy that enlarges those differences—that makes documented workers more expensive compared to undocumented workers—is actually worse for the documented workers."
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14 Sep 09

Obama's big silence: the race question | Naomi Klein | Comment is free | The Guardian

  • most progressives feel it is their job to defend him – not to point out that, when it comes to tackling the economic crisis ravaging minority communities, the president is not doing nearly enough.
  • Today's mobs, on the other hand, are reacting to the symbolic victory of an African American winning the presidency. Yet they are rising up at a time when non-elite blacks and Latinos are losing significant ground, with their homes and jobs slipping away from them at a much higher rate than from whites.
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12 Sep 09

The Concept of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: A Conceptual Model: The Symptom Management Model

  • The model also takes into account the fact that symptom-management strategies fail when it is difficult for the individual to adhere to them

The Concept of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: Clinical Management Strategies

  • Some nonpharmacologic strategies for managing and reducing fatigue in people with MS are exercise training, energy conservation, and cooling therapy

The Concept of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: Manifestations and Surveillance

  • People with MS who have fatigue may not report their fatigue if they regard it as an inevitable consequence of MS, so it is important for clinicians to ask specific questions that can identify its presence
  • Upwards of 30 different instruments have been developed to measure fatigue, but none has emerged as the definitive measure (Dittner et al.; Kos, Nagels, D'Hooghe, Duportail, & Kerckhofs, 2006; Schwid et al.)

The Concept of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: Definition

  • "The awareness of a decreased capacity for physical and/or mental activity due to an imbalance in the availability, utilization, and/or restoration of resources needed to perform activity"

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

  • One such explanation favors an autonomic
    neuropathy that predominantly affects the lower extremities.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Why Are Senior Citizens Crying "Socialism" at Town Halls?

  • because of different life expectancies, the typical black man will receive on average about $70,000 less than a white man, and even if the white man and black man both reach age 65, the disparity still remains about $25,000.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Poll: Most Don't Know What "Public Option" Is -- Including Pollsters

  • More generally, there seems to be a sort of arm's-race on both sides of the debate to conduct crappy, manipulative polls on health care reform, and the public option in particular.

Open Left:: Progressive Block Whip Count To Begin Monday

  • If the public option is just a minor distraction, then why don't moderate and conservative Democrats just give into the Progressives? Seriously--if the public option is so meaningless, then what's the big deal? Just give into the demands, and pass the bill.
11 Sep 09

Which High School Students Are Most Likely to Graduate From College? - Yahoo! News

  • The new research finds distressing signs that demographic factors such as gender, race, and parental education play large roles in determining a student's fate, no matter how smart or hardworking the particular student is.
  • Interestingly, an analysis of eighth-grade reading and math test scores in North Carolina found that they were far more significant predictors of college enrollment than most other factors, including high school characteristics and student race
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