| EMS: Courage and Compassion in Action: U.S. Health Care: An Oxymoron?
This time he tackles the U.S. health care system by presenting real-life examples of how the system is corrupt and the different ways it can turn a proverbial blind eye from its people. Although Moore spends a lot of time exploring health care in smaller European countries without actually comparing how they work or their overall statistics in relation to the U.S., I was deeply affected by "Sicko" and its description of the disastrous state of the outrageously expensive but poorly managed health-care system in the United States. The documentary walks viewers through several parts (as listed below), each highlighting separate health care issues in the U.S. and how the system is poorly structured and implemented: ● Many Americans are potentially forced to reduce their overall quality of life because they are not adequately covered by health insurance.
What a contrast
It's slowly dawning on the liberals that it's not going to be enough to ignore Ronald Reagan. Like it or not, they're going to have to take him on, head-first, and try to convince the American people, or at least the historians of his era, that he was a fundamentally bad guy. I don't envy them the job. Reagan was an immensely popular president. Not long after his retirement I told him, in a private conversation, that I thought his historical popularity would follow the trajectory of most of his predecessors' -- declining somewhat at first, then rising again till he assumed at last his proper place in the presidential pantheon. I was wrong. Right from the start, after he left the White House, commentators on both the right and the left have recognized him as one of the major presidents of the 20th century, who shaped the country's policies and future in important ways.
One Woman's World
And as the Christmases dropped from her single-woman-raising-children-alone calendar, she slowly took on a kind of soft wisdom and self-acceptance missing in her earlier identity as Mrs. Somebody Important. The Debbies in our towns are the town's backbone and its heart - there for their children, there for their church, there for their community. If I were mayor of Anywhere, U.S.A., I would declare one day a year Debbie Day. I would read aloud a statement that says there are no perfect streets, no perfect homes, and no perfect families. I would declare loudly that we can, and we should, celebrate the Debbies everywhere who have found their wings, not in the exterior world of life as we dreamed it would be, but in the inner strength of the individual soul. That's where the perfect gardens grow.
I Heart the ISS: Ten Reasons to Love the International Space Station
International Cooperation. Didn't your heart swell with pride for the Europeans when the Columbus science module finally became part of the station this week? And you gotta love the Canadians for their reliable, heavy-duty Canadarm 2. The Russians have been steady partners in station construction and re-supply for years now. Japan's science lab will be added on the next shuttle mission. The ISS is the largest, most complex, international engineering project in history. In a world where violence and political animosity floods the daily news, it's incredible that this structure is quietly being built by 16 different countries working together in relative harmony. If not for the international partners, the ISS probably wouldn't have gotten off the ground. NASA Administrator Mike Griffin has said that the station's most enduring legacy is the international partnership that created it.
Donors Needed to Send Four Million Bibles to Africa
COLDWATER, Mich., Feb. 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- In October 2006, on a trip to Africa, church leaders shared with Dwight Hall, president of Remnant Publications, a request for printed Bible study guides for the southern countries of Africa. Dwight pointed out that a person gets more out of a study guide when they can look the Bible verses up and see for themselves what the Word of God says. The church leaders told him that the study guides need to have the Bible verses printed right below the questions because the people don't own Bibles. In fact, Dwight was personally told of "several persons who had gone for 3 or 4 days without food, only water, so they could save enough money to buy a Bible." Barely able to believe what his ears were hearing, Dwight instantly formulated a plan to facilitate the spreading of the Gospel by printing, collecting, and shipping four million Bibles to the people in Africa.
City officials: NBA All-Star weekend helped prove N.O. is back
Basking in the glory of a successful NBA All-Star weekend, New Orleans officials said the event highlighted an unprecedented run in which the rebuilding city firmly re-established itself as a mecca for special events and conventions. The performance of the city's civil services and hospitality community during a six-week window -- in which New Orleans hosted two major football bowl games, Mardi Gras and the NBA All-Star Game -- should emphatically answer any questions about its post-Katrina viability as a premier destination for special events and conventions, officials said during a news conference Monday at City Hall. "We have reaffirmed our position as a special-event city," said Doug Thornton, regional vice president of SMG, the company that manages the New Orleans Arena and the Superdome for the state.
Midler takes up residence at Caesars Palace Colosseum
Comedians have joked about Las Vegas being the place where entertainers were so old they needed wheelchairs. For Bette Midler, it's a dream come true. Mermaids in electric wheelchairs, creating kaleidoscope patterns on a 120-foot stage, are part of the campy spectacle awaiting Midler's fans tonight, when the first paid ticket-holders see "The Showgirl Must Go On." But the show does not go on the road, so Midler seizes the opportunity to surround her wheelchair-bound mermaid character Delores with a 13-piece band and a chorus line of free-rolling fins. The exclusive production will stay put at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, with 100 shows per year for at least two years. "I could never afford to tour with 20 showgirls," the singer noted back in May when the venture was first announced.
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