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Never heard of Sjogren’s Syndrome?
Don’t feel bad if you have never heard of Sjogren’s Syndrome; recently, only twenty percent of some five hundred women polled had heard of the condition. At this point, you may be thinking, "what is so important about Sjogren’s syndrome?"
Sjogren’s Syndrome affects approximately four million Americans, mostly women between the ages of forty and sixty. As with most autoimmune disorders, women are
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A Brave New World of Rising Fuel Prices
Call me a pessimist (my wife certainly does), but I don't think fuel is going down in price. Ever. Yes, it will fluctuate periodically. Up a nickel, down two cents. But the gamebook, from this point forward, calls for ever rising fuel prices.
Which sucks to be sure. It's not just the cost of gas at the pump that America has to be concerned with. It's the cost of everything that rises because
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We Must Protect Patients' Rights
This letter to the editor was published in the online version of the Wall Street Journal today
A few years back,
insurance lobbyists rammed through legal changes that were designed to
severely limit the legal rights of Texas patients. We heard
high-falutin' rhetoric promising dramatic improvements in the cost,
quality and access of health care in our state. None of the promised
improvements have been realized, but that hasn't stopped special
interest think tanks from spinning an intricate yarn in their futile
attempt to justify the rights they stole from Texas families ("Cross Country: Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas," May 17 and "Tort Reform Will Rescue Doctors,"
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Featured Link - Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary Online
My thanks to my friend Matt Homann for this site — the Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary Online. It's a dictionary that not only gives you definitions, but also illustrations of terms or concepts. Take a look, for example, at the definition of the word court. Very cool.
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