Knowing what’s best for you

First the news:
(chicagotribune.com) In an aggressive move to win over consumers that also threatens to shake up the $250 billion pharmaceutical business, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Thursday that it plans to test the selling of many generic prescription drugs for the unusually low price of $4 per month…
Health care is also a politically charged issue [...]

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Free Jazz MP3s

Go to the website of Jazz Times magazine. There you will find a list of free MP3s (updated regularly) that you can download. Just fill out the two-part registration and enjoy.
Jazz Times Mp3 page

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Is ethanol all what its cracked up to be?

From Consumer Reports:
“…after putting a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe FFV through an array of fuel economy, acceleration, and emissions tests, and interviewing more than 50 experts on ethanol fuel, CR determined that E85 will cost consumers more money than gasoline and that there are concerns about whether the government’s support of FFVs is really helping the [...]

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Dumb political plays of the week

>From the Republican camp:
A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers…
…The spot begins with one woman telling another, “Dr. King was a real man. You know he was [...]

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