Connecticut Considers Letting Health Aides Give Medicines To Homebound
Connecticut, like every state trying to reduce health care spending, is looking closely at how it cares for people with …
Factories ‘Reshore’ Some Work From Overseas
Part of a series During the worst of the Great Recession, U.S. factory jobs were disappearing at a furious pace. …
Spanking Lives On In Rural Florida Schools
Spanking in school may seem like a relic of the past, but every day hundreds of students — from preschoolers …
Tornado Tech: What If Dorothy Had A Smartphone?
Last year was the deadliest tornado season in the United States since 1917 — 550 people died. And even though …
What’s In A Word? A ‘Dictionary’ Of Americanisms
One of the joys of reading books set in another time or another place is the foreignness of the language, …
Santorum Gets A Lift From Anti-Abortion Group
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has been getting help from anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List as he campaigns this …
Five Things You Absolutely, Positively Have To Know About March Madness
Summer vacation? It’s for slackers. Those first gorgeously colored leaves of fall? They’ll have to be raked into soggy piles …
Like Grits? You Just Might Be A Republican Candidate
“Strange things are happenin’ to me,” a bewitched Mitt Romney said recently to a crowd of Mississippi supporters. The former …
Metal Hips Prone To Early Failure
Hip replacements can do a lot of good, but they don’t last forever. To lower the failure rates of artificial …
Five Things To Watch For In Tuesday’s Alabama, Mississippi GOP Primaries
Alabama and Mississippi will play unaccustomed high-profile roles Tuesday as each candidate for the Republican presidential nomination looks to voters …
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