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Contacts: Steffie Woolhandler MD 518-794-8109 Quentin Young MD 312-782-6006 Kimberly Soenen 312-782-6006 Doctors Call for National Health Insurance Journal of the American Medical Association Publishes Physicians’ Proposal for National Health Insurance Signed by 7,782 Physicians WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST 11, 2003 — In an unprecedented show of physician support for National Health Insurance (NHI), 7,782 U.S. physicians propose single payer NHI in an article in the August 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The “Physicians’ Proposal for National Health Insurance” was drafted by a blue ribbon panel of leading physicians. The signers include 2 former U.S....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite the bone through his nose, his shaved head and pierced face, the 25-year-old pacing a seedy stretch of New York sidewalk admitted he was terrified of what he was about to do.But after a few minutes, a couple cigarettes and several deep breaths, he sat in the basement of a storefront tattoo parlor, closed his eyes and let a friend split his tongue down the middle with a scalpel.The latest trend among teens and 20-somethings who indulge in so-called extreme body modification, forking one's tongue like a serpent's "is an art form," said T.J. McGillis,...

The reporters' questions revealed a combination of ignorance and arrogance that must have tested the patience of the General. The tone was whiny, aggrieved, dismissive, smug, condescending -- all at once...........

US on wrong side of history Jonathan Power May 12, 2002 It is the reflex America-must-be-in-charge- or-we-don’t-do-it mentality of the neo-conservatives who wield so much influence in Washington combined with the anti-internationalism of the Christian right Of all the many ironies in President George Bush’s decision to remove America from membership of the treaty establishing an International Criminal Court - its own adherence to the supremacy of law, its enthusiastic initiating of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its primary role in setting up the ad hoc international court that is now trying Milosevic - none is more to...