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During A Recession People Have Fewer Children – Vasectomies On The Uprise
Dr. J. Stephen Jones had seven vasectomies to perform in a day.
The schedule for Jones, a Cleveland, Ohio, urologist, has become more crowded during a recent boom in vasectomies.
“My staff came to me and said, what’s happening?” said Jones, the chairman of the Department of Regional Urology of Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the [...]
Cities Look At Daytime Curfews To Control Teens – Keep Them In School
Dallas is considering joining a rising number of others across the country that are imposing criminal penalties on kids who skip school to hang out at the mall or on local street corners.
Such juvenile daytime curfews to combat truancy and crime are drawing protests from groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and from [...]
8 Simple Steps To A Higher Credit Score
In an effort to help consumers access today’s lowest-cost financing, U.S. News gleaned tips from a handful of experts on boosting your credit score.
1. Get your credit report: The first step for improving your credit profile is to find out where your credit currently stands. Three main credit reporting bureaus–TransUnion, Equifax and Experian–collect and [...]
Vital Signs – Vitamin D Pills May Prevent Fractures in Older Adults – NYTimes.com
Vitamin D supplements may help prevent fractures in people over 65, provided they take enough of the right kind. A new review of clinical trials appears to show a strong dose-dependent effect for vitamin D in lowering the risk for nonvertebral fractures in the elderly.
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Background Check: Peter R. Orszag, Our White House Budget Director
At 6 in the morning, Peter R. Orszag is racing: across wet pavement for a 35-minute run, into a shower and a suit, and through a living room that looks rather like an office, the walls painted presidential gold and hung with pictures of federal monuments.
As he heads to his job as White House budget [...]
Credit and Debit Cards – What You Need to Know
A generation ago, it wasn’t all that unusual to be out for dinner with friends or at the register with a cart full of groceries and realize you didn’t have enough cash to cover the bill. But today, you’re likely to pull out a debit or credit card and not think anything of it.
It’s hard [...]
Background Check: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
In any other year, Timothy Geithner already would have spent a week at tennis camp in Florida, sharpening his skills and kicking back with a group of friends that includes the mentor who helped put him on the fast track to the top of the Treasury Department.
Instead, Barack Obama’s 47-year-old treasury secretary is in his [...]
U.N. Urging World Cities To Join The “Big Switch-off”
Millions of people worldwide are being urged off lights for an hour, in what is described as the biggest climate change protest ever attempted. The initiative, Earth Hour, was begun in Sydney two years ago by green campaigners keen to cut energy use.
Correspondents say the aim is to create a huge wave of public pressure [...]
Facebook Users Target Pope Benedict Over Birth Control Remarks
Critics took to the social networking site Facebook to voice their fury over Pope Benedict’s remark that condoms do not prevent HIV.
Thousands have pledged to send the pontiff millions of condoms to protest the controversial comment he made to journalists as he flew to Cameroon last week.
“You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” [...]
Pres. Bush – A ‘Millstone,’ Around The Necks Of GOP McConnell Says
Despite crushing defeats in the last two elections, Senate Republicans have new “energy and enthusiasm” for winning back the majority, according to their leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
“President Bush had become extremely unpopular, and politically he was sort of a millstone around our necks in both ‘06 and ‘08,” McConnell told reporters Friday. “We [...]
