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...like to see made. Other Republicans are also expected to offer amendments to reinstate some or all of the $500 billion in cuts to Medicare, especially the $100 billion-plus cut from Medicare Advantage, which subsidizes private insurers; to weaken or do away with the mandate; and to strip out any form of the public plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care Turns to Harry Reid After Key Vote | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...document the lives of U.S. infantrymen, landed there again, this time on assignment for TIME. His mission was to join Apache company, a detachment of 102 soldiers who had arrived a month earlier to establish a combat-operations post in the Tangi Valley, not far from Kabul. An incongruous strip of greenery between two bone-dry mountain ranges, the valley has become a flash point for the Afghan insurgency. By the time Ferguson got there, 26 men of Apache company had been wounded in the seven weeks since their arrival, and one had been killed in action--all from improvised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Window On the War in Afghanistan | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

When you were playing clubs in Toronto, did you feel like you had made it? Even though I was working in this strip club, [I felt like] I'd made it to some degree. But I was kind of depressed. It felt like I was going to be doing that for the rest of my life. And basically I am. I think that the title [of the book] is a little philosophical, in that I am basically doing that kind of work. I'm doing a five-night-a-week lounge gig. I just do it for David Letterman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letterman Bandleader Paul Shaffer | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

When Draimli opened Birds and Fish World in the 1980s, he says, "People weren't all that interested in cats." It took a few years, he says, to convince his neighbors in the Gaza Strip - home to 1.5 million people, the majority of whom are refugees - that the animals make worthy household companions. (Read TIME's 1981 cover story on cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising Cats in Gaza: A Pet Store Owner's Lament | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

Finding that stability can be tough in a territory where 85% of the population depends on humanitarian aid to survive. Through his quarter-century in business, Draimli has watched the Gaza Strip transition through intermittent periods of war, Israeli occupation, and political unrest. Its latest phase - the Israeli blockade, which has been in place since Islamist Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007 - has been the hardest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising Cats in Gaza: A Pet Store Owner's Lament | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

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