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Nationalized Healthcare and the Free Market
A scenario is laid out in which nationalized healthcare arrives not through legislation but through a government-sponsored insurance option so much cheaper than private plans that employers adopt it by default, eventually leaving physicians and hospitals with a de facto single payer.
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Appendiceal Duplication
An unusual operative case is described in which a patient with classic appendicitis signs was found intraoperatively to have an appendiceal duplication — a rare anomaly confirmed on pathology — with the perforated duplicate forming a phlegmon and a relatively normal true appendix discovered just before closure.
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iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Chapter 3
The iCal-Invite-Fix AppleScript was updated to support multiple Exchange servers in a single script by using two paired list properties that map Exchange TZID fragments to the correct iCal time zone identifiers.
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General Surgery in NY
Observations from the American Society of General Surgeons meeting in New York City, where academic presenters championed controversial minimally invasive approaches — such as laparoscopic closure of diverticular perforation without resection — that struck the author as treatments that would fail an oral board exam.
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Importing Mail Message Attachments Into Aperture
An AppleScript called SaveAttachments2Aperture was created to import email attachments directly into Apple Aperture, filling the gap left by the missing Quick Look shortcut that iPhoto users already enjoyed, with later versions adding file-type filtering and support for common camera raw formats.
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Biden VEEP??
Obama selected six-term Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate, prompting skepticism about how a longtime Washington insider squares with a campaign built on the promise of change.
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iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix - Chapter 2
A substantially rewritten iCal-Invite-Fix AppleScript handles the three main Exchange/Outlook invite types (REQUEST, PUBLISH, and CANCEL) and multiple encoding formats, with detailed setup instructions for configuring script properties and wiring the script to a Mail rule.
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iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix - Part 2
An interim update to the MailExchange2iCal-TZ-fix script fixes a parsing failure for .ics invites delivered only as attachments or in base64 encoding, and corrects the script so it runs reliably from a Mail rule.
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Bill of NON-Rights
A satirical list of eleven things Americans do not have an inherent right to — written by Lewis Napper — is shared as a counterpoint to entitlement culture, emphasizing personal responsibility over government guarantees.
