Sunday, February 17, 2008

weekend update, Feb. 17, 2008

--On average, healthy people lived about 84 years with health care costs of about $417,000 from age 20 on; smokers lived about 77 years with health care costs of about $326,000 and obese people lived about 80 years with costs of about 371,000.—Netherlands National Institute for Public Health. –Feb 15, 2008 SBT, A4

--US Struggles to Tutor Iraqis in Rule of Law—Feb. 12, 2008, NYT A1

--Acting on an anonymous tip that an abortion had been performed later in a pregnancy than the law allows, police offices [in Naples] entered the hospital and interrogated a Neopolitan woman ... immediately after the abortion and reportedly while she was still under anesthesia. They seized the aborted fetus. Feb. 16, 2008, NYT A8

--“I am tired of fighting the Vietnam war. I have drifted toward Obama.”—California Anti-Clinton Republican. Feb. 17, 2008, NYT, WK 13.

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