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U.S. Health Care Costs Will Keep Rising, Analysts Say

Within a decade, an aging America will spend one of every five dollars on health care, according to government analysts who see no end to increases in the cost of going to the doctor and taking medicine. The nation’s total health care bill by 2015: more than $4 trillion. Consumers …

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Vt. Judge Ups Controversial Sentence for Sex Offender

BURLINGTON, Vt. – A controversial ruling for a sex offender in Vermont was changed Thursday from 60 days to 3 to 10 years after a judge received pressure to extend the punishment. When Judge Edward Cashman sentenced Mark Hulett, 34, to 60 days in prison for sexually abusing a child, …

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Friends, Family Eulogize Feminist Friedan

NEW YORK – Betty Friedan, who championed the once-radical assertion that women needed more than husbands and children to find fulfillment, was eulogized Monday as a feminist pioneer and loving mother — if not always an easy one to live with. “I truly believe that Betty Friedan was the most …

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