Monthly Archives: October 2009

The Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth Almost every cell in your body is being continually regenerated, some at faster rates than others. The cells lining the stomach are replaced about every five days. The epidermis, or surface layer of skin cells, recycles about every two weeks. Red blood cells last about four months while liver cells are...

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Bus 31

Bus 31 On my way home, stopped at a light in North Adams, I spotted BRTA (Berkshire Regional Transit Authority) Bus 31 stopped, facing me in the oncoming lane. Its digital display was flashing its route: WalMart-Hospital, WalMart-Hospital…with the return route, presumably, Hospital-WalMart, Hospital-WalMart. Irony becomes reality: a literal mass-transit loop between mass-consumerism and mass-sickness....

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Got Health Care Reform?

Republican vs. Democratic Health Reform Plans US Representative Alan Grayson, from the great state of Florida, sums up, simply and precisely, the Republican Health Reform Plan vs. the Democratic Health Reform plan, the public option. What don’t people get?

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