Race and the white coat

April 21st, 2008 by Kristy

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Racial bias in doctors and healthcare workers is doing great harm. Is enough being done to stop it?

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Let’s dump “Earth Day”

April 21st, 2008 by Kristy

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Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves.

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Let’s dump “Earth Day”

April 21st, 2008 by Kristy

Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves.

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Reason Magazine - Why are People Having Fewer Kids?

February 26th, 2008 by Kristy

Perhaps it’s because they don’t like them very much.

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US may shoot down satellite Wednesday

February 19th, 2008 by Kristy

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An attempt to blast a crippled U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile - possibly on Wednesday night - would be the first real-world use of this piece of the Pentagon’s missile defense network.

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Wal-Mart Can Be Good For Your Health

February 19th, 2008 by Kristy

The medical establishment is opposed to drop-in clinics in Wal-Marts and other retail stores. But self-interested doctors need to get over their archaic ways of doing business

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No Music Day

November 22nd, 2007 by Kristy

Britain’s No Music Day offers a welcome hush over a noisy world. It can’t come to America soon enough

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Katha Pollitt, confessional memoir

September 26th, 2007 by Kristy

Political columnist Katha Pollitt has been vilified for airing her romantic dirty laundry. What’s wrong with serious women writers exposing their soft underbellies to the world?

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Garrison Keillor, Giving up bottled water

September 26th, 2007 by Kristy

If I can give up bottled water, then it’s time for conservatives to face up to the disaster they visited on this country with the election of Bush.

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Streetcar’s unfortunate acronym seems here to stay

September 18th, 2007 by Kristy

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Officially, it’s now the South Lake Union Streetcar. But the trolley name already has caught on, and in the old Cascade neighborhood in South Lake Union, they’re waiting for the SLUT.

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