Good For Business, Bad for Patients? (ABCnews.com, January 30, 2009) Summary: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals is being bought out by Pfizer, a larger company. The buyout is giving hope to more research and lower prices.The article shows the pros and cons of the buyout. While maximizing profit for the shareholders, the question of whom is really being [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Senate Approves Children’s Health Bill (NYTimes.com, January 29, 2009) Summary: U.S. Senate approves a bill Thursday, January 29, 2009 that allows more than four million children to have health insurance. Topic: Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care? Category: Journalistic Title: Senate Approves Children’s Health Bill Author: [...]
Filed under: Source Notes | 1 Comment »
Health Care Now (NYTimes.com, January 29,2009) Summary: An opinion column of why Americans should have guaranteed health care now. With the bail out bills rolling in, the economy’s downfall is in need of a pick-me-up, health care for all is just what the doctor ordered. Topic: Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help [...]
Filed under: Source Notes | 1 Comment »
Our 44th President gave his insipring inaugural speech on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009. Americans gathered everywhere to watch the change come into their lives. With this change that so many hoped for President Obama mentioned the issue of health care, and how it has become a crisis. Can Obama join science, technology, and health care [...]
Filed under: Government, health care | Leave a Comment »
Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care? Health care has always been a problem for many Americans. One plan may work for a certain person, but it is not guaranteed to work for everyone. This is why I don’t believe that a universal health care plan, [...]
Filed under: Government, health care, tax cuts | 3 Comments »
Being in touch with the public is a new must with the government. The best way now to keep in touch with the masses is to use the technology that is available. President Obama is using this new way of keeping in touch with the American public in every aspect that he can. Tying one [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Blogging, Government, Inauguration, Obama | 1 Comment »
Watching the youtube videos of Ira Glass gave me another way of looking at stories. In the first video when he talks about the building blocks of story telling that really caught my attention. I think that all stories have a begining, middle and end; but I had never thought of a question. As I [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Interviewing people wasn’t hard. I saw it as just talking to people. Getting the person that I was interviewing to really open up was the challenge. Once I sat down with Matt I just talked to him like I was getting to know him. Laying down the base for what could have just been a [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Wedding cakes are becoming almost a fad instead of a tradition now that they have become so elaborate. There are cake decorating shows now with challenges and ridiculous orders, amazing wedding cakes are everywhere. Looking at the history of wedding cakes a lot of the traditions started with the recipes that make a great wedding [...]
Filed under: Baking, Cakes, Weddings | Leave a Comment »
Rethinking smoking with ‘Third-Hand Smoke,’ an article in the NYT by RONI CARYN RABIN; talks about the smell that sticks to smokers and what the effects of those smells are.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/health/research/03smoke.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=third%20hand%20smoke&st=cse
Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
