The supreme court healthcare hearing, day two: panel opinion Tuesday’s argument on the individual mandate portion of the ACA went very well for opponents of the healthcare law. Paul Clement, representing the states, is a brilliant oralist, and he gave a bravura presentation of the states’ argument.
Learning to Breast-Feed From an Avatar When two Northeastern University professors, one in health sciences and the other in computer and information science, came together to try to develop a system to help women breast-feed more successfully, their project joined their common interest and their two worlds. They created a lactation avatar: Tanya.
Parents of neighborhood watch shooting victim appear at Capitol Hill forum on racial profiling In a packed forum on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, the parents of Trayvon Martin found support among members of Congress who turned the death of their 17-year-old son into a rallying cry against racial profiling.
Rhode Island Public Radio Acts of Kindness Perhaps you have noticed that endearing bumper sticker pasted to the rear end of some cars that advises all of us to “Commit Random Acts of Kindness.” Maybe you read that line and snicker, or maybe you take the advice to heart, believing that our world could be a much better place if all of […]
The US supreme court healthcare hearing: panel opinion The constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) presents a real chance that the US supreme court will strike down a central part of an incumbent administration’s agenda since 1936. For this reason, audio transcripts were quickly issued to the public, and many politically interested people will hear an oral argument at the supreme […]
Day 1: Health law experts weigh in on the Supreme Courtâs review of federal law Did you listen to Monday morning’s Supreme Court hearing on the Affordable Care Act? Is your head swimming? Mine too. I’ve asked a few experts in health care law to give us their first impressions — and to help us interpret some of the lingo.
No Work for the Willing Most young men and women today want to work hard, but for those under 25 years old, work has often been impossible to find. Young people ages 16 to 24 are among the greatest casualties of our economic downfall.
Santorum Wins in Louisiana as Romney Struggles in South Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum won Louisiana’s primary, giving him another victory in a region where Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the nomination, has struggled.
Health care battle focuses on Mass. model The doctors and nurses in the emergency room of Holy Family Hospital in Methuen routinely treat patients who lack health insurance.
R&D New software tool to assess global freshwater stress A new method to make better use of vast amounts of data related to global geography, population and climate may help determine the relative importance of population increases vs. climate change.
Bloomberg Businessweek China: The Next Internship Frontier James Critelli knew only five words of Mandarin, but he didn’t let that stop him from applying last year for a summer internship in China, a country thatâs fascinated him since he accompanied his father there on a business trip as a child.
CNN Money Audit rates of millionaires nearly double The more money you have, the more the IRS wants you. Millionaires were nearly twice as likely to receive a tax audit last year as they were the previous year, according to data released by the IRS this week.