I Wanna Be Sedated I work in the marketing department of a big real estate development company. It gives me great shame to admit that. Since the real estate market hasn’t been doing so hot, my company is asking employees to show that they are “engaged.” Our full work-from-home team is now being asked to…
LOS ANGELES — One pleasingly bitter, gently botanical, sort-of purple nonalcoholic cocktail in, and I was just happy to be caught in the gravitational pull of the Ruby Fruit. What could be better on a rainy weeknight than chatting with friends and strangers squished at the bar, snacking on fried gigante beans and ripping apart…
The Bright Side is a series about how optimism works in our minds and affects the world around us. On March 20, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network released its annual World Happiness Report, which rates well-being in countries around the world. For the sixth year in a row, Finland was ranked at the…
About a year ago, a literary salon sprang to life in a run-down townhouse in the West Village of Manhattan. Dozens of young writers, critics, artists, theater actors and filmmakers started going there almost nightly to drink, smoke, talk, dance and argue, much like their bohemian predecessors in the days before sky-high rents priced poets…
With the arrival of spring, there’s a silver, or really, a multicolored lining to the extreme weather that has battered the west all winter: the promise of wildflower-filled weeks and months ahead, particularly in Southern and Central California and Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. “We are anticipating a good to better-than-average wildflower bloom,” said Jorge Moreno, an…
Años después, sigo contándoles a los estudiantes de mi clase de Métodos de Investigación la historia de mi primera cita con Corey para ayudarlos a recordar el concepto de regresión a la media: cómo algo que es extremo en una primera medición se vuelve menos extremo, o retrocede a la media, en una segunda medición.…
The Biden administration on Friday finalized new rules meant to cut down on widespread overbilling by private Medicare Advantage insurance plans, but softened the approach after intense lobbying by the industry. Regulators are still moving forward with rules that will lower payments to insurers by billions of dollars a year. But they will phase in…
As pandemic protections expire, states are redetermining which people are eligible for the health insurance program.
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On Thursday, a federal judge in Texas struck down a crucial Affordable Care Act policy: the mandate that private health insurers fully cover preventive care services at no cost to patients. The ruling took effect immediately and applies nationwide. It affects dozens of potentially lifesaving preventive health care services that the federal government recommends, including…