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		<title>From Reader: Doctors Inc.: With More Doctorates in Health Care, a Fight Over a Title</title>
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		<title>From Reader: A Web Tool That Lets You Automate the Internet</title>
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		<title>Another Atlantic Article Critical of our Current Health Care System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This array suggested a bigger, underlying dysfunction, and Ioannidis thought he knew what it was. “The studies were biased,” he says. “Sometimes they were overtly biased. Sometimes it was difficult to see the bias, but it was there.” Researchers headed into their studies wanting certain results—and, lo and behold, they were getting them. We think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=653&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Potpouri of Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standing while you work&#8230; Does it improve health? In the past few years, standing has become the new sitting for 10 percent of AOL employees at the firm&#8217;s Dulles campus, part of a standing ovation among accountants, programmers, bureaucrats, telemarketers and other office workers across the nation. GeekDesk, a California company that sells $800 desks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=648&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fictional paragraph of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Spencer Reynolds] hair was curled but cropped short, his skin bronzed by a benevolent sun&#8230;, his clothes&#8230;were expensively flamboyant without being outre, and his demeanor proclaimed a relaxed confidence that all men dreamed of and precious few obtained. His wit was obvious, his attention to others sincere, and his sense of humor legendary. I found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=644&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paragraph of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popularity of [Rube Goldberg's] inventions series closely parallels the rise of electrification in America. In 1925, depending on where you lived, &#8230; power was receding into the walls. The world lost a little explicability. People like to complain that they can’t understand modern cars because of all the fancy parts and electronic doo-dads in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=643&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s that time of the year again&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When do you get to talk about deep scientific inquiry into such bleeding edge research topics such as fellating bats, analgesic profanity, the physics of socks on shoes on ice, remote control helicopters collecting whale snot, slime mold mapping techniques for trains, roller coaster asthma cures and random promotion strategies that increase organizational efficiency.   Why, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=641&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t know what to think about this&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The widow of a 413-pound Michigan lawyer who was charged in his death last week was released on her own recognizance Monday after prosecutors said they aren’t sure the forensic evidence supports their theory of the case. Laura Johnson was charged with second-degree murder and unauthorized practice of medicine in the death of her husband [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=640&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paragraph of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People, you and me, are not trusted. The right doesn’t like us because we don’t do what we’re told by our betters, and the left doesn’t like us because it secretly thinks we would be on the right given half a chance and a lottery win. And both think we should not make our own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=639&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paragraph of the day&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her nature became his landmark&#8211; what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard&#8230;Most of us, I hope, have some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie. &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=637&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sentence of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Coby Schal of North Carolina State said he formerly used condoms filled with rabbit blood, but switched to parafilm because his condom budget raised eyebrows with university auditors.&#8221; From today&#8217;s NYT&#8217;s article on bedbugs. Filed under: Personal Posts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=634&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Potpourri of links</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posner asks if the US Federal Government is insolvent? Becker, maybe not but we best grow faster. Bad Astronomy blogger on Discovery&#8217;s Bad Universe tonight. Filed under: Personal Posts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=630&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ahhh.  Grilling season is here&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If all you grill is burgers and dogs, try fresh fruit. Amazing. Check out 101 ideas including &#8220;20. Grill pineapple (or anything, really, from pork to tofu to eggplant). Make a sauce of half-cup peanut butter, a tablespoon (or more) soy sauce, a dash (or more) sriracha chili sauce, a handful of basil or mint [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=627&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best sentence read today</title>
		<link>http://ptkostyack.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/best-sentence-read-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones. My lament will terrify even the stars.&#8221; Very raw indeed. Courtesy of Times Book Review of J. Stern&#8217;s A Memoir of Terror via Marginal Revolution blog. Filed under: Personal Posts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=623&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IPad Initial Impressions &#8211; a Magical Market</title>
		<link>http://ptkostyack.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/ipad-initial-impressions-a-magical-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife bought me an Ipad (32G 3G) for my birthday. I have an IPod Touch that, like my earlier Nano, I use daily. But I primarily use the Touch for music and &#8212; even more &#8212; podcasts. I wanted an ebook reader but could not bring myself to get a Kindle because I wanted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=616&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the file: truth as stranger than fiction</title>
		<link>http://ptkostyack.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/from-the-file-truth-as-stranger-than-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 01:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a book by Dan Simmons called The Crook Factory. His ability to write across genres is something I have not encountered in many writers. Contrast the Hyperion series, Summer of Night, Drood and this novel. This work is an historical fiction account of a year in Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s life during May [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=607&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sentence of the Day</title>
		<link>http://ptkostyack.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/sentence-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax.&#8221;  Gona use this one some day.  Courtesy of Balloon Juice and paraphrased in Crooked Timber and it all starts with Marginal Revolution, of course. Filed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=605&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genius is Hard Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freakonomics interviews David Shenk about his new book.  Mr. Shenk had some notable observations about genius and the work behind it. [E]verything about talent is a process. There’s the genetic piece, and then there’s the ability piece. When you look very closely at [Michael] Jordan’s life, you see a rather ordinary teenage athlete with no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=600&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Potpourri of Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Case Western Reserve University School of Law stagnant in U.S. News rankings via Crain&#8217;s Cleveland Business &#8211; News Feeds on 4/15/10.  Continuing to struggle. Imaging Technology Adoption: The Impact Of Self-Referral via Health Affairs Blog on 4/25/10.  Arguments proposing need to address physician self-referral under in-office ancillary exception. Medicare Fees and Physicians’ Medicare Service Volume [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ptkostyack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7049599&amp;post=592&amp;subd=ptkostyack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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