Of interest (Mon, May 16th, 7pm to Tue, May 17th, 6am)

BBC News – Superbrands’ success fuelled by sex, religion and gossip

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BBC News – Is it fair to fine fat people for not dieting?

>arizona

BBC News – Bedbugs bite into the US economy

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BBC News – News pioneer Joseph Wershba dies at 90

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BBC News – Bin Laden dead: Saudi sympathy for local boy Osama

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BBC News – Pope Benedict orders action on sex abuse

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BBC News – China farmers face ‘exploding’ watermelon problem

>wtf_nature

The GOP Proposes ‘Obamacare’ For Seniors — Just Don’t Tell Democrats Or Republicans That | TPMDC
If you think of the health care system as a highway with unbridled free market private insurance on one end and universal single payer on the other end, then two parties are now approaching each other from opposite directions. …

The similarities between the two policies creates a dilemma for Republicans who have smeared the health care law as an existential threat to the United States and for Democrats who've attacked the GOP plan as a corporate giveaway and dangerous for seniors.

Thus, most of them deny the chance encounter on the health care highway is even taking place…

[Which is too bad for negotiations, of course. -L]

>healthcare

[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]

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