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Feeding Frenzy: The Finale
Sue Lowden, the Republican frontrunner for Nevada’s Senate seat, declared that to bring down health care costs, patients should barter with their doctors. She stood by her comments, specifically proposing live chickens as a way to pay the doctor. FYI: Assuming you have prime-quality chickens, it would take 157,540 chickens to pay for a heart…
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The Power of People (and the Headache of Counting Them)
It’s census time. In the United States, people have been filling out and mailing forms, in addition to being interviewed by officials from the Department of Census. The feat of carrying out a survey of 300 million people is as difficult as it is important. Simultaneously, in another part of the world, census officials are…
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"Shame and Remorse" in the Vatican
The past several months have intensified the pressure on the Vatican to act more decisively on the allegations of the sexual and physical abuse of children by clergy members. The current wave of revelations has uncovered the systematic sexual abuse of children in Ireland, Austria, Germany, among other European countries. Worse still are widespread allegations…