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...overweight Americans shoulder numerous expenses beyond higher medical bills. In general, life-insurance premiums rise in proportion to your girth, even if you are otherwise in perfect health. Says Bill Simons, an independent insurance broker in Washington: "It could easily be double, triple or up to five times the normal premium...
...dire happened there. Persson has also been warning that Sweden won't get a second chance at joining the euro for at least a decade, hoping to defuse the argument that a no vote is really a "wait-and-see" measure. Turnout is expected to be lower than for normal elections, which should hurt the no side. The yes campaign is hoping the large number of undecided voters will come around to their position at the last minute; that's what happened when Sweden voted to join the European Union in 1994. But for no campaigners like Lowisa Anderzon...
...loss of Columbia and its crew of seven on Feb. 1 would shake NASA more deeply than the public was generally aware. While NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe was quick to promise, just four hours after the crash, that shuttles would resume normal flight operations as soon as possible, some of the program's staunchest backers were soon nursing doubts about the long term viability of winged spacecraft. With just three orbiters remaining - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour - one more catastrophic accident would mean the program could not support enough flights to keep the space station operating. And an orbital space...
...latest development in the millennium's all-out obsession with reality. Celebrities, once airbrushed beyond recognition, have been brought down to earth and suddenly look ... normal. They're just like...
There is a legitimate philosophical difference here, and it involves the difference between voluntarism and service. Voluntarism is the act of doing valuable things that fall just outside the normal scope of governance. Service is more intense: it is a full-time commitment to do the most difficult public works--policing, teaching, social casework. The Police Corps, which exists outside AmeriCorps, and Teach for America are exemplars of the latter. They are unabashedly elitist; TFA accepts only 13% of all applicants. They involve rigorous training programs. And the goal is to leverage the altruism of the best and the brightest...