Source: Infected Tube Paul Starr was a senior advisor for health care reform under President Clinton, and he’s the author of a celebrated history of the American health care system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine. He has weighed in on the current health care debate in a New York Times op-ed piece. In addition…
Source: Rehava Penguins, like canaries in coal mines, are a leading indicator of climate change and other environmental hazards. Their frozen habitat is getting smaller. A warmer ocean means the migration patterns of fish have changed, so penguins are forced to travel much farther for food. The Magellanic penguins of South America now need to…
Source: flickr Warm Up o Big Bands – You made me love you o Rod Stewart – As time goes by o B52s – Love Shack Stretch – Scarves o Offenbach – Tales of Hoffman Barcarolle o Delibes – Lakme/Viens, Mallika o Eva Cassidy – Songbird Circle o Emmylou Harris – Here there and everywhere…
Source: About.com, Daniel Kurtzman Maggie Mahar raises a disturbing point about implementing health care reform once a bill makes it through both branches of Congress. In the House version of the bill, the provisions — the public plan, the Exchanges, regulation of private insurers, subsidies — take effect on January 1, 2013. The Senate version,…
Sourch: On the dash Sugary soft drinks are under attack from obesity experts, health commissioners, nutritionists, Congress, and President Obama. And the soft drink industry is fighting back. Health experts have proposed a tax on soft drinks of one cent per ounce. That’s an extra 12 cents on a 12-ounce bottle of Pepsi, which may…
Source: Ellf House Warm Up o Rod Stewart – I only have eyes for you o Rod Stewart – Let’s fall in love o Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – For a dancer Stretch o Caccini – Ave Maria o Rachmaninoff – Vocalise Circle o Eric Clapton – Malted milk o Cher – Believe o…
Source: Karen Bown Photography In the days before informed consent – when doctors knew best and it hadn’t occurred to patients that they had rights – newborn babies with life-threatening birth defects were declared “stillborn.” The motives were compassionate: Spare the parents an agonizing choice and a lifetime dedicated to full time care. This medical…
Lisa Thompson, right, with Marion Rosen Warm Up o Madeleine Peyroux – I’m All Right o Kiri Te Kanawa – I got the sun in the morning o Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Rich Woman Stretch o Tracy Chapman – I’m ready & Save a place for me o Natalie Cole – The very…
Source: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan The typical diet in Afghanistan is bread with a watery soup, some onions, a potato, perhaps a bone and some yogurt or oil. One third of the population is hungry or in danger of starving – humanitarian groups call this being “food insecure.” Another third of the…
Source: AppuVista Warm Up o Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Killing the blues o Talking Heads – Take me to the river Stretch o Richard & Linda Thompson – Dimming of the day o Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris – You’ll never be the sun o Carl Orff – In trutina from Carmina…
