| Boomers set new course
Call it the Big Boom Theory. Over the next two decades, 78 million American baby boomers will hit retirement, setting off - at least in some analysts' minds - a crisis in public services, a brain drain for businesses and a budgetary disaster. Medicare and Medicaid rolls will swell, say reports like the Ohio Public Expenditure Council study released last week. Senior services will be stressed to the limit. And the 20 young workers who supported each retiree back in 1945 will shrink to less than two for each retired baby boomer in 2029. .
Study discovers danger in pain drug
Working with the state medical examiner, Chugh looked at 22 Portland-area cases of death in which people had therapeutic, but not lethal, levels of methadone in their blood. Looking for possible explanations for their cardiac arrest, he compared the methadone users with a control group of people who had died in Multnomah County from unexplained cardiac arrest. According to Chugh, 77 percent of the deaths studied among people who had methadone in their system had no heart abnormalities that could have explained their sudden cardiac death. In the control group — people who had no methadone in their blood when they died — only 40 percent had no apparent cause for their cardiac arrests. Chugh said the data tell him that methadone must have been responsible for many of the unexplained cardiac deaths.
Romney pins Republican campaign hopes on business experience
She tried and failed to set up a socialist health care system. She wore a headband. She stood by Bill in spite of his infidelities. But she did nothing else that was newsworthy. I'm not likely to vote for a Republican in November, unless Ron Paul or Fred Thompson are nominated, which they're not likely to be (because the media doesn't give them equal air or press time, so the public doesn't know much about them), but I WILL vote Republican if Hillary is nominated. So will hundreds of thousands of other folks. .
Recent Campus Clicks
Yup, you read that correctly. The Harvard Lampoon will honor Hilton as its Woman of the Year in a ceremony on Feb. 6, two days before the release of her new film, The Hottie & the Nottie. Meanwhile Hilton was spotted getting cozy with freak show singer/actor Jared Leto at Sundance yesterday. .
Critics of homosexuality should see words' effect
Critics of homosexuality cause suffering in at least two ways.First, they produce guilt, shame and fear in the lives of innocent adolescents who find themselves oriented toward persons of the same gender. This can be so severe as to convince the youngster that the life is just impossible.The second kind of suffering arises when hoodlums ``punish'' homosexuals by committing sexual assault or other forms of battery. The more the ``sin'' of homosexuality is emphasized, the easier it is for the perpetrators to commit such acts.Granted, the authors of the opinions in the Pantagraph do not wish for such things to take place but nevertheless they do occur.This ``gay-bashing'' may be statistically rare by some stretch of the imagination, but it certainly was not rare when it happened to me.Critics should remember the words of Jesus Christ as they are reported in the Holy Bible: ``Judge not, lest you be judged'' and ``Let he who is without guilt cast the first stone.''Gene NadenOak ParkThe writer is a former resident of Bloomington.
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