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Word of a strange occurrence came our way the other day. Embrace the New Year Well, did you kiss 2008 goodbye and welcome 2009 with open arms? It's a new year, a new beginning, a new chapter. Letters to the Editor A picture of America One of my fondest yet most frustrating memories of Christmas is the annual Christmas Eve-through-Christmas morning ritual of assembling doll houses, tricycles, bicycles and swing sets. There always seemed to be more parts than I could find use for, and less time than I needed. Elderly more numerous, medicine more competent than expected WASHINGTON -- Health care, says the man most concerned with that 17 percent of America's economy, can be "a nation-ruining issue." As Michael Leavitt ends four years as secretary of health and human services, he offers this attention-arresting arithmetic: Absent fundamental reforms, over the next two decades the average American household's health care spending, including the portion of its taxes that pays for Medicare and Medicaid, will go from 23 percent to 41 percent of average household income. What have Arkansas voters wrought? There's a 39-year-old woman living in Tulsa, Okla., a registered nurse, who lives jointly in a same-sex relationship with another registered nurse, who is 38. Together they provide a home for the other woman's four-year-old daughter. |
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