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Op-Ed Contributor - Big Food vs. Big Insurance - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Paul Allison on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • TO listen to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night, or to just about anyone else in the health care debate, you would think that the biggest problem with health care in America is the system itself — perverse incentives, inefficiencies, unnecessary tests and procedures, lack of competition, and greed.
  • Paul Allison on 14 Oct 09
     
    I'm learning more about diseases like diabetes and heart disease now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is: Is is diet or genetics that determines if you get these diseases or not. I searched in the New York Times for "fast food and cancer" and I found this op-ed piece to be interesting because of how it connects personal issues out to big societal ones. "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three-quarters of health care spending now goes to treat "preventable chronic diseases." Not all of these diseases are linked to diet - there's smoking, for instance - but many, if not most, of them are." Seventy-five percent of health care spending goes to things like heart disease and diabetes, which are preventable if we just had better diets!
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Palenque Journal; Hailing the Solstice and Telling Time, Mayan Style - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by AndreaLee EWSIS on 21 Oct 09 - Cached
  • It is probably not the end of the world. But it might be, says José Argüelles, president of the Foundation for the Law of Time.
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      AndreaLee EWSIS on 21 Oct 09
       
      paranoia!
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Pentagon Checks Arsenal in Race for Nuclear Treaty - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by AndreaLee EWSIS on 01 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Although Mr. Obama has vowed that his long-term goal is eliminating nuclear weapons, there are significant disagreements about how fast and how deep reductions might be made while guaranteeing America’s security in a world in which other nations maintain nuclear arsenals, others might be tempted to build them — and bomb-making knowledge can never be erased.
    • AndreaLee EWSIS
      AndreaLee EWSIS on 01 Nov 09
       
      My thoughts exactly. I don't think that the United States can let go of their nuclear weapons when the rest of world is continuing to build more as we speak.
  • “It’s like the operation of a very high-end restaurant kitchen. It may look chaotic, but beautiful things come out of it.”
  • Mr. Obama laid out his vision in April, declaring in Prague that he would “reduce the role of nuclear weapons” and urge other countries to do the same, with the long-term goal of eliminating nuclear arms altogether.
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