RE: How much do people care about their own health? (Was: dorepublicans/politicians care...)

2002-12-23 Thread Leonard Crystall
On 22 Dec 2002 at 23:45, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 12:51 AM 12/18/02 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote: AFAIK, Homosexuality and Low/High IQ's are not recognized in the medical community as diseases. True. I threw those in for discussion since _some_ people have treated them as diseases either

Re: How much do people care about their own health? (Was: dorepublicans/politicians care...)

2002-12-23 Thread Richard Baker
Andy said: (And a certain short storyAsimov? If any of you are still white, we can cure you) Arthur C. Clarke, Reunion. Rich GCU One Line Reply ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: How much do people care about their own health? (Was: dorepublicans/poli...

2002-12-23 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 12/23/02 8:15:16 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (And a certain short storyAsimov? If any of you are still white, we can cure you) Andy Clarke. But durned if I remember the title. William Taylor --- Simply The Cure?

RE: How much do people care about their own health? (Was: dorepublicans/politic

2002-12-23 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How much do people care about their own health? (Was: do republicans/politicians care...) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 23:45:35 -0600 At 12:51 AM 12/18/02 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote: Deborah

Arizona desert shrimp update.

2002-12-23 Thread Medievalbk
The buyers have hired lawyers. Ah, not to file against our family though. Yuma county, it seems, has put a moratorium on zoning changes until May of 2003. This story is getting stranger and stranger. [There is already a packing plant in Dateland on the other side of the mountains. Hmmm...]

Re: Christmas beggars

2002-12-23 Thread chaton . jm
* Alberto Monteiro [Wed, 18/12/2002 at 21:49 -] Do decent workers in your countries have the nasty habbit of turning into annoying beggars during Christmas? Yes they have, to sum up those who already have rung the door bell so far this year : The postman The fireman The garbage collector

Re: Christmas beggars

2002-12-23 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Alberto Monteiro [Wed, 18/12/2002 at 21:49 -] Do decent workers in your countries have the nasty habbit of turning into annoying beggars during Christmas? Yes they have, to sum up those who already have rung the door bell so far this year : The postman The

RE: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-23 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * * * * * * Spoiler Space * H that should be enough... * * * snip Or do you mean the horse bits? The lines he said about the female dwarves were from the book, at least the appendices, IIRC. I recall

Re: How much do people care about their own health?

2002-12-23 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip who doesn't do milk in her tea, and who has no intention of drinking bubble tea, either, having been offered a bit by a friend who was enjoying it ??? What is bubble tea? Is it related to mushroom tea, or that other fungal-based extraction

Re: health care levels and costs

2002-12-23 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debbi asked- snip My other concern is that holding the costs ends to be a reactive philosophy. Some posters have already noted that preventive measures can have good return on investment. Could you expand on this? Let me try a few angles on

Re: How much do people care about their own health?

2002-12-23 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: - Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Is it your opinion, then, that all cancers are caused by exposure to toxins, and could be avoided if the toxins were removed from the environment? snip Nooo, many are unfortunate

Re: How much do people care about health?

2002-12-23 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debbi wrote: --- Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: Bonus points for those who come up with *legitimate* instances of alcohol or cocaine use that promotes survival (there are several, but they don't

Re: How much do people care about health?

2002-12-23 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: --- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debbi wrote: Bonus points for those who come up with *legitimate* instances of alcohol or cocaine use that promotes survival (there are several, but they don't involve

RE: Christmas beggars

2002-12-23 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Adam C. Lipscomb Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Christmas beggars From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Alberto Monteiro [Wed, 18/12/2002 at 21:49 -] Do decent workers in your countries

N Korea threatens to 'destroy world'

2002-12-23 Thread The Fool
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,865094,00.html The North Korean media, which is never short of a fiery turn of phrase, has given Bush administration hardliners all the material they may want. The communist party's newspaper Workers' Daily declared that the army and people of the

RE: How much do people care about their own health? (Was: do republicans/politic

2002-12-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:12 AM 12/23/02 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How much do people care about their own health? (Was: do republicans/politicians care...) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 23:45:35 -0600 At 12:51 AM