The Nation By KEVIN SACK
THE skirmishing between the Democratic presidential candidates over the mechanics of universal health coverage will soon give way to a quite different general-election debate — about whether universal coverage should even be a national priority.
In the primaries, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have magnified their differences […]
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By PAMELA PAUL
LIKE any other conscientious, organic-fruit-buying expectant mother, Pamela Myers knew what she wanted from her childbirth experience. And, as is the case with growing numbers of women, that meant hiring a doula — the word means “servant” in Greek — to help during labor.
“I wanted a natural, unmedicated birth,” said Ms. Myers, […]
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By SOMINI SENGUPTA
GURGAON, India — It is Friday night in the mecca of new Indian ambition.
The air is thick with the construction dust of new glass-fronted high-rise buildings. The traffic moves so slowly that commuters can gape all they want at the Burberry advertisement that lights up the facade of a shopping mall. In the […]
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By HEATHER TIMMONS
NEW DELHI — The latest bane of office productivity is Scrabulous, a virtual knockoff of the Scrabble board game, with over 700,000 players a day and nearly three million registered users. Fans of the game are obsessive. They play against friends, co-workers, family members and strangers, and many have several games going at […]
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Art By RANDY KENNEDY
FROM a distance the artwork seems to be some kind of Minimalist drawing, mostly horizontal lines and words on white paper, like Carl Andre typewriter poems or a text piece by Lawrence Weiner. But up close it looks pretty much like what it is: dozens of simply framed copies of budget […]
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Music By MELENA RYZIK
THE day after she finished her new album at Electric Lady Studios, the West Village recording shrine that Jimi Hendrix built, the multiplatinum R&B singer Erykah Badu was back in her surprisingly modest apartment in Brooklyn, puttering. In the tiny kitchen she poured organic pomegranate juice into a jelly jar, then […]
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