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Frederick Smith

Responses to P. Chen, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/letting-doctors-make-the... - 0 views

1  . Old Colonial Texas, now August 11th, 2011 1:10 pm What is critical here is the concept of long-term relationships between doctors and their patients, which most states are now destr...

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Frederick Smith

Letters re James Wood's Post-Haiti Anti-Theodicy Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Out of Tragedy, Questions About God: 4 out of 5 letters (surprising proportion for NYTimes) object to Wood's either/or view of theodicy: if God is omnipotent (& doesn't prevent suffering), he is cruel; if God is loving and good (and only comforts, but doesn't prevent suffering), he is weak and worth ignoring. They affirm the mystery "that God is deeply present in and through the events of the world - often inscrutably, but always powerfully and lovingly - and though we cannot for the life of us see how, even catastrophes include divine presence and power." A Christian notes that fellow believer "might counter [that] suffering and death come to all, even to a God who in his love took on our mortal, vulnerable condition as his own."
Frederick Smith

Tea Party Movement - The New York Times - 0 views

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    News, commentary and archival information about the Tea Party movement from NYTimes.
Frederick Smith

US stealing foreign doctors - NYTimes, 3/7/12 - 0 views

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    In a globalized economy, the countries that pay the most and offer the greatest chance for advancement tend to get the top talent. South America's best soccer players generally migrate to Europe, where the salaries are high and the tournaments are glitzier than those in Brazil or Argentina. Many top high-tech workers from India and China move to the United States to work for American companies. And the United States, with its high salaries and technological innovation, is also the world's most powerful magnet for doctors, attracting more every year than Britain, Canada and Australia - the next most popular destinations for migrating doctors - combined.
Frederick Smith

Obama & the Debt - by Sean Wilenz - 0 views

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    As the wording of the amendment evolved during the Congressional debate, the principle of the debt's inviolability became a general proposition, applicable not just to the Civil War debt but to all future accrued debts of the United States. The Republican Senate leader, Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio, declared that by placing the debt "under the guardianship of the Constitution," investors would be spared from being "subject to the varying majorities which may arise in Congress." Two years later, on the verge of the amendment's ratification, its champions inside the Republican Party made their intentions absolutely clear, proclaiming in their 1868 party platform that "national honor requires the payment of the public indebtedness in the utmost good faith to all creditors at home and abroad," and pronouncing any repudiation of the debt "a national crime." More than three generations later, in 1935, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, ruling in the case of Perry v. the United States, revisited the amendment and affirmed the "fundamental principle" that Congress may not "alter or destroy" debts already incurred. As the wording of the amendment evolved during the Congressional debate, the principle of the debt's inviolability became a general proposition, applicable not just to the Civil War debt but to all future accrued debts of the United States. The Republican Senate leader, Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio, declared that by placing the debt "under the guardianship of the Constitution," investors would be spared from being "subject to the varying majorities which may arise in Congress." Two years later, on the verge of the amendment's ratification, its champions inside the Republican Party made their intentions absolutely clear, proclaiming in their 1868 party platform that "national honor requires the payment of the public indebtedness in the utmost good faith to all creditors at home and abroad," and pronouncing any repu
Frederick Smith

Q&A-C.S.Brown-CruiseCritic.com - Frugal Traveler - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    In 2010: $50-75 bucks.day very easily from close to home (to avoid flying - yr-round from New York, seasonally from Boston) - go on older ship, shoulder/off-season,Carib or Eur(hi compet'n) inside cabin (Norwegian has window to hall), Avoid alcohol,spa,boat shore excursion,on-board Internet. No tips in Europe.
Frederick Smith

T.Ferris - 'Science of Liberty - Democracy, Reason & Laws of Nature' - BkRvw - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Argument that the scientific frame of mind played a leading role in the emergence of democratic governance and individual rights.
Frederick Smith

China Sees Growth Engine in a Web of Fast Trains - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    In China, 42 high-speed rail lines have opened or are set to open by 2012; the U.S. hopes to build its first high-speed line by 2014. The Chinese bullet train, which has the world's fastest average speed, travels 664 miles from Guangzhouon the coast to Wuhan, deep in the interior. In a little more than three hours. Travelling the same distance from Boston to southern Virginia, the train takes less time than Amtrak's fastest train, the Acela, takes to go from Boston to New York. By comparison, the United States hopes to build its first high-speed rail line by 2014 - linking only the 84 miles between Tampa and Orlando, Fla.
Frederick Smith

Op-Ed - The Value of "Other People's Money" - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The author discusses the current timeliness of the 1914 book, "Other People's Money," by Louis Brandeis (future Supreme Court Justice). Melvin A. Urofsky is a Brandeis scholar and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Frederick Smith

Tea Party - Populist Rebellion on Right - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    More than populism, the movement is about a transformation from political indifference to bracing for tyranny.
Frederick Smith

Letters - It's Crunch Time on Health Care - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Includes Fred letter re accepting imperfect HCR bill, even without public option.
Frederick Smith

James Wood Op-Ed - Assails all theodicy & invocation of God, after Haiti - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    New Yorker writer James Wood addresses different theodicies (God punishing or teaching, or self-comforting) in "Between God and a Hard Place," Sunday, 1/24/10
Frederick Smith

Practical Traveler - Rolling Out the Yoga Mat - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Yoga at hotels & spas.
Frederick Smith

SARAH PEREZ - 3 Facebook Settings To Check Now - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Protecting personal privacy on Facebook
Frederick Smith

BOB TEDESCHI - Wi-Fi Apps Let You Bypass Cell Carriers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Better Calling for Less: With a solid signal, smart-phone users of Wi-Fi phone applications (e.g., with Skype) should have good sound quality and no dropped calls, in WiFi zone (instead of using cell towers, etc.)
Frederick Smith

David Brooks - Op-Ed - Obama's Perot Option - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Brooks suggests Obama should get out on the road, as a "saner" version of Perot, with charts & graphs, to educate Americans on how dysfunctional American government has become, and to ask for the political support needed to change things. If Obama doesn't do this, someone else will come along and do it.
Frederick Smith

Pogue - Best Digital Cameras Under $300 - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Small, competent, 12 megapixels, 3-in screens, hi-def video capture, image stabiliz'n, face recognition, zoom 10-12X. BUT: still shutter lag, low-light noise, blown-out highlights.
Frederick Smith

Book Review - 'The Faith Instinct - How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures,' by Nichol... - 0 views

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    Review by Judith Shulevitz (author of "The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time"): Wade asserts "the God gene" & its evolutionary function - "to bind human beings into cooperative groups," making altruism, group (over self-) interest & solidarity a matter of conscience (with the gods as enforcers). Shulevitz's criticism is "that he has under-ambitiously portrayed religion as less encompassing and consequential than it is."
Frederick Smith

David Brooks Op-Ed - The House of Tranquillity - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Brooks admiringly describes how well Obama & Biden get along, & how tranquilly the White House staff operates despite all the recent setbacks. "Some would say the administration is underreacting to the incredible shift in the public mood. Some would say they need more voices from the great unwashed. But no one could accuse them of panicking, or of scrambling about incoherently. In their first winter of discontent, they are offering continuity and comity. Whatever their relations with the country might be, inside they seem unruffled. The bonds of association, from the top down, seem healthy - especially for a bunch of Democrats."
Frederick Smith

David Brooks Op-Ed - Politics in the Age of Distrust - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Brooks states Obama mistook 2008 landslide as American readiness for a new New Deal, rather than a referendum on GWBush. Americans are reacting against "government over-reaching." He sees 2 alternatives (among 4 available): Harsh&Arrogant (pass health reform by reconciliation) vs. Weak&Feckless (switch to incremental changes). Brooks favors the latter as less likely to bring a political rebellion that will "decimate policy-making for a generation." (He thinks the actual current "alternative" being pursued is "Incoherent & Internecine."
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