For my friends and family in the deep freeze back east (Looks like you’re in a warming trend! Above freezing today at Groton, down the river from my sister’s house!) I’ll point out that the thermometer on my back porch reads 56.8 and I’m wearing shorts this afternoon. update, early evening OK, that was a …
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Consider this shocking statistic, courtesy of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies: Lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States. Let’s think closely about that number. In their best year, terrorists killed 3,000 of us. It caused a national paroxysm that continues today. Surely the death …
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My rather imprecise discussion earlier of space science left some people with the impression that I was speaking in support of President Bush’s Moon-Mars initiative. Nothing could be further from my feelings on this issue. First, there is, in fact, no Bush initiative. This is words, not deeds, and the deeds will be interesting and …
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