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The Age of Terror Meets Halloween

Seven Days | November 12, 2007

The fear managers stoke and manipulate our inchoate anxieties, directing attention to threats looming in the shadows and away from real and present dangers. This year, that real and present danger was lead poisoning.

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Medical Necessities: What's So Terrible About Rationing Health Care?new

I agree that the rich should pay more to support the health care of those who have less. But taxes won't cover it all. There will be rationing. Indeed, there should be rationing -- also known as rational choosing between interventions that are needed and those that are only wanted; those that justify the risks and costs and those that don't.

Seven Days | Judith Levine | 12-09-2009 | Commentary

Tags: Health Care Reform, mammograms, medical procedures, rationing, Congress, health care, women's issues

Babying Bristol Palinnew

Since McCain lost, Bristol and Levi don't have to get married. But the Palins haven't moved out of Bristol's personal life — quite the opposite.

Seven Days | Judith Levine | 06-02-2009 | Sex

Tags: teen sex, Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin

Purple Tunnel Stress Disordernew

Columnist Judith Levine was one of the unlucky purple ticket-holders who were locked out of the inauguration. But she's not bitter. Heh.

Seven Days | Judith Levine | 02-09-2009 | Commentary

Tags: Obama inauguration

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A gourmet meal is cooked in compost.

Seven Days | Corin Hirsch | 11-20-2012 | Food+Drink

Tags: Agriculture

Cruiser-Crushin' Vermont Farmer Becomes an Internet Heronew

To Roger Pion's supporters, this isn't just a weird, only-in-Vermont story providing fodder for the news media. Pion is the everyman, doing what he needs to do to get by in modern America, pushing back when the boot of The Man is on his throat.

Seven Days | Tyler Machado | 08-10-2012 | Culture

Tags: Farmer Crushes Cop Cars With Tractor, Roger Pion