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• In UK survey, doctors support denying treatment to smokers, the obese

  Sun Apr 29, 2012
  • @Craig - there are plenty of not-for-profit hospital systems in the USA. I'm having a hard time seeing a UK-style system with rationing as being better than a system wherein we're simply required to have some coin in order to pay for treatment.

• This is why humans love slow motion

  Sat Apr 21, 2012
  • I tried not to fist pump with the dog caught the kibble. I succeeded.

• The push for pork: Has bacon lost its sizzle?

  Fri Apr 13, 2012
  • Julieanne Smolinski just fell off my Christmas card list. And the editor who thinks cheese doesn't lack the charisma of bacon--well, there's just no hope for that person. No hope at all.

• New test nixes findings about faster-than-light neutrinos

  Fri Mar 16, 2012
  • Another statement in the article indicated that the difference between the neutrino velocity and the speed of light was not detectable. That makes the statement you quote accurate up to the resolution limit of measurement.

• 7th advertiser pulls out of Limbaugh's show

  Sun Mar 4, 2012
  • I understand the need for birth control, particularly as outlined by physicians. What I don't understand is this need to make someone else pay for it.

• Dark matter blob confounds experts

  Fri Mar 2, 2012
  • Surprisingly, there's no link to the "circular gravity" website here.

• Dark matter blob confounds experts

  Fri Mar 2, 2012
  • It looks like someone has a pet theory.

• This is what makes Pinterest so addictive

  Wed Feb 29, 2012
  • The fascination escapes me. The world wide web has become little more than an infinite slide show of other people's vacation photos. Splendid, humanity. Well done. Bravo.

• Chow down on America's best brunches

  Sun Feb 26, 2012
  • Well, if you hadn't brought Bourdain to the foreground I was going to. What you said, chef.

• I'm obsessed with ... Lancome lip liner

  Wed Feb 22, 2012
  • I'm surprised to find out that she simply can't order it on the World Wide Web. That certainly would obviate the need to pick it up on trips home or asking friends and family to schlep it.