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With Canadians enduring pain for months and years while they wait for surgery, traveling to the U.S. for treatment, entering "lotteries" to get a doctor, and getting "wait list insurance," is Canada really a model for U.S. health reform?

More than 50 oil tankers are anchored off Britain - pieces in a game in which the only winners are market speculators. The losers are the millions of British motorists paying over the odds for their petrol and diesel. After yesterday's report in the Daily Mail on how several so-called 'oil shark' tankers were moored near the Devon coast, dozens more vessels were revealed to be loitering off-shore. Some are carrying aircraft fuel or fuel for homes. Others are empty, waiting to be restocked before setting off around the globe. But according to industry experts, a significant number are 'oil...

You're afraid your cancer is back, and a health insurance company just turned you down. Under the health care bills in Congress, you could apply for coverage through a new high-risk pool that President Barack Obama promises would immediately start serving patients with pre-existing medical problems. Wait a second. Read the fine print. You may have to be uninsured for six months to qualify. "If you are a cancer patient and have cancer now, you can't wait six months to go into a plan because your condition can go from bad to death," said Stephen Finan, a policy expert with...

Wait times improved slightly in five priority areas last year, but the time it takes patients to actually receive care remains shrouded in mystery, a coalition of medical experts said Thursday. The fourth annual report card by the Wait Time Alliance, titled Unfinished Business, found only "spotty progress" has been made in reducing wait times in the five areas that the federal government and the provinces and territories agreed to under a $5.5 billion deal in 2004 — hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery, radiation oncology, cardiovascular surgery and diagnostic imaging like MRIs. 'In many parts of Canada patients still...

LOS OLIVOS, California (AFP) – The plans for Michael Jackson's funeral remain uncertain, but that did not stop Desiree Crossley and her family from camping out for hours outside of his Neverland ranch. Reports that the King of Pop would be laid to rest at his sprawling fantasy estate prompted a near stampede here to the rolling hills of Santa Barbara wine country, with hundreds of media satellite trucks parking outside the gate. As newscasters broadcast live in multiple languages and traffic crews hurriedly erected no-parking signs, Crossley waited with a friend in foldable chairs, her two daughters sitting in...

on all cable news channels....to start in uh uh about 30 minutes.

Georgia has (for good or bad) "early voting", and I did my part: standing in line for 2-1/2 hours this week to vote. Most of the line was outside the building in the wind, all of it was uncomfortable. But .... How many "undecided" voters - people who even after 18 months of campaign propaganda from the MSM STILL haven't decided what course they want their country go on - would bother doing that? Would a person (particularly the very old or very young) who can't make up their mind until November 2 really want to leave their house or...

NEW YORK - Fans of the Fox drama "24" will have to wait until next January to see Jack Bauer again, this television season's most prominent casualty of the Hollywood writers strike. The network has committed to air a full season on consecutive weeks, and had been planning to start last month. But if it had started airing new episodes soon, the season finale would not have taken place until the summer, when TV networks rarely show their high-profile programs. Even though eight episodes for this season had already been filmed before the beginning of the writers strike, producers would...

8/13/2007 - MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) -- Wayne Sufficool vividly remembers what happened to him Feb. 19, 1968, when he was a crew chief on the RF-4C aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. It was the day the flightline area he was working on was hit with more than 40 rounds of 122 mm mortar rounds. Now Mr. Sufficool has another date that will be permanently etched in his memory. On Aug. 9, in the presence of his son, Bradley, his daughter-in-law, Vanessa, and more than 120 6th Air Mobility Wing maintainers and base members,...

I'll be purchasing from Verizon.What are the best brands of cell phones?Do the speaker phones one can get as an additional option have good sound quality?What exactly is bluetooth?I want good audio, reliability, and I'd also like text messaging, maybe Internet access too, and photo taking feature on the phone.I've never had a cell phone, I've thought them frivolous. But now I see the advantages of owning one.Thank you.

Wait! Don't Buy Microsoft Windows Vista Here's a well-considered list of reasons to wait on buying Windows Vista. Mike Elgan, Computerworld Monday, January 29, 2007 08:00 AM PST Over the next few weeks, NBA star LeBron James will try to convince you to move to Windows Vista as part of Microsoft's massive ad campaign. This is not a review of the Windows Vista operating system. I'm not here to tell you about Vista or what's wrong with it. For an opposing viewpoint, read Windows Vista: 15 Reasons to Switch.And to help you make up your own mind, here's a list...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2005 – U.S. servicemembers fighting in the global war against terrorism are "directly engaging the enemies of the United States" who have considered themselves to be at war with America since long before Sept. 11, Vice President Richard B. Cheney said here today. Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and other terrorist groups "were actually at war with this country before 2001," Cheney told attendees at the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting and exposition. In 1983, an explosives-laden truck killed 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon, Cheney recalled. Afterward, U.S. troops were withdrawn from...

The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime! by worldcantwait.org Friday July 22, 2005 at 02:10 PM info@worldcantwait.org Mobilize for November 2, 2005 Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. top2.gif, image/gif, 800x155 Read and spread the Call that started this movement: The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime! Mobilize for November 2, 2005 Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. Your government...

Tsunami victims still wait for aid to arrive By Peter Foster in Colombo (Filed: 28/05/2005) The generosity of millions of Britons who gave money to help the victims of the Boxing Day tsunami is being betrayed by Sri Lanka's army of bureaucrats. They have reduced the international aid effort to "a complete and utter mess", The Daily Telegraph has established. Aid agencies are being frustrated at every turn Five months after the tsunami struck, killing 40,000 and leaving 500,000 homeless in Sri Lanka, more than 100,000 of the poorest victims are still living in tents or crude temporary shelters. Despite...

Hey Kids! Want Good Sex? Try Abstinence.Warren ThrockmortonAs a mental health counselor, I am really troubled by the numbers of adolescents that I have counseled who cried for days and hurt for years because they engaged in "safer sex" within dead end, unfulfilling relationships. Sadly, they learned that “safer sex” can be hazardous to their emotional health. I think the current political debate concerning abstinence vs. contraceptive based sexual education has failed to include an important variable in the discussion of what to teach in school: sexual well being. In many contemporary sexual education curricula, young boys and girls who...

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Scientists wait to examine Kennewick Man August 08 2004 at 04:58PM By Tomas Alex Tizon For a few days last week, the top forensic anthropologists in the United States thought they were finally going to get their chance to study Kennewick Man. The eight-year legal battle over the 9 300-year-old bones, one of the oldest skeletons found in North America, appeared finished after five northwest Indian tribes decided not to pursue their case to the US supreme court. The tribes claimed that Kennewick Man was an ancestor and should not be desecrated by scientific study. Two courts ruled in favour...

So what's the 'Problem' with John Kerry...???  Is it the 'Long Face'...???...NO !!!  It's the ...LONG WAIT !!!

Relaxed Saddam 'cannot wait' for hearing By Jack Fairweather in Baghdad (Filed: 01/07/2004) Saddam Hussein wished onlookers good morning and tried to fire off questions to the judge when he was handed over to Iraqi legal custody yesterday. During a closed ceremony at an American military base, he appeared to be in a relaxed mood as he and 11 of his former lieutenants were read their rights. "He said good morning. He wanted to talk about what would happen," said Salem Chalabi, the American-educated lawyer who set up the special tribunal that will try the high-ranking Ba'athists. "We had to...

IS it just me? or is it time for our guy (Bush) to fight back!