Tag: health
member name: Meryl Johnson
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December 27, 2006 10:08 AM EST --
The story behind this, and all the pain that's been caused by the health insurance mess in this country, is as simple as can be, yet very difficult to explain. Insurance is a gamble. It pays off because . . .
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June 04, 2007 09:38 AM EDT --
The cat became so used to me getting up around 4 AM or so that now that I'm not doing it any more he's upset about it. When I stopped getting up rather than lie there and worry about what the result . . .
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August 01, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
Last fall I received a call from Homeland Security. They were doing a survey of how prepared people are for emergencies. They informed me that the apartment complex where I live is on a flood plain and . . .
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October 13, 2006 08:55 PM EDT --
When the twin towers fell in 9/11, the pets in the neighborhood had to breathe the same heavily polluted air as the humans. Is it possible that they functioned like little canaries in the coal mines, getting . . .
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November 12, 2006 03:19 PM EST --
I read Amanda Nuckoles' recent article about how she was being driven crazy by a doctor telling her he didn't want to frighten her, then making her worry for two weeks before telling her what he . . .
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May 23, 2006 09:08 AM EDT --
There was a news report last night about a baffling rat problem on the upper west side of Manhattan, an affluent, comfortable neighborhood, the kind of place where one would least expect to have problems . . .
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June 02, 2006 09:41 AM EDT --
I posted this as a comment as a response to an article, Color Nuclear Energy Green, but I think this issue is important enough to publish this as its own article, slightly edited.
Sorry folks, but I can't . . .
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January 19, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
When I was a grad student I worked for a physician who wanted to define health. He felt that we only looked at health in terms of disease, defining it as the absence of disease, and that health had to . . .
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May 19, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
So I staggered out of bed this morning at 4:30 to change the litter box and feed the cat because he was crying plaintively in the hall. At least for a change he wasn't climbing over me, but his crying . . .
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February 20, 2006 11:53 AM EST --
Why do we entertain ourselves with phantasmagoria? We dream, and we know that dreams are merely dreams. We read novels, stories and poetry, we love drama, paintings, and music. We know these are not intended . . .
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