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Howard worldwide

Thursday, September 28, 2006

I am hooked. I love to listen to Howard Stern. Up to now I have been doing it quietly by downloading it from P2P ever since I heard about him from a 60 minutes appearance just before moving to satellite radio on 1st January of 2006. Finally Sirius started transmitting their radio stations to the [...]

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120 rants (2006.03.12+2006.03.19)

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Two 60 minutes rants rolled into one post, what could be better then that? Tal Afar – the worst place to live in Iraq for the last 3 years http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/10/60minutes/main1389390.shtml Tal Afar is the town in Iraq that was the homebase for Al Qaeda for a long time. USA army had captured the town before, [...]

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60 rants (2)

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Hospitals overcharging uninsured people http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/02/60minutes/main1362808.shtml The bulk of the story in not really that hospitals make uninsured people pay more, it is that they make insurers pay less. It looks like it is common practice in US hospitals to charge their patients for work and materials with 300-500% profit margin. Only most of the country [...]

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60 rants

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

To get my blogging up to a more regular schedule and also give you something to read that everyone could relate to, I decided to start regular commenting on the latest in 60 minutes Stem Cells http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/23/60minutes/main1341635.shtml I must say that I have not been following the stem cell research closely enough in last couple [...]

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