J. Carter brown for over 3,300 years, the pharaoh tutankhamun has gazed serenely at eternity, confident in his ability to conquer death. Everlasting life was his by right of birth. He was pharaoh, king of egypt, the mightiest empire of the ancient world. He was a god. Nothing was beyond his means. When tutankhamun sat upon his throne, thousands of years of history and achievement had already preceded him. Surely a nation that could bring itself into being and create wonders like the Great Pyramids could overcome mans final enemydeath. And overcome death tutankhamun hasat least according to the ancient egyptian funerary beliefs, for the very act of speaking his name provides magic to infuse tutankhamun with everlasting life. Names were important to the egyptians. A name symbolized ones personality and even ones very existence. To remember the dead was to make them live again. And so tutankhamun must, for the whole world has known his name ever since that day in november of 1922, when ar
To a time traveler crossing the boundaries of centuries, or a newcomer from a distant land, the complexity of the medical system in the United States is difficult to comprehend. Gerard anderson, Health Policy specialist, has a simple way to explain it. Gerard anderson i take them to a grocery store, and i show them l the different cereals, and say,e want toave oicen america. Tta and i show them l ththinus. Rent cereals, it doesnt seem to give us Better Health ca, it doesnt seem to give us lower costs, but it does give us choice, and we value choice above everything. From a practical point of view, the first decision many consumers are confronted with is how to finance their health care. The choices are simply to pay for it themselves, or to enroll in a private or Public Health insurance plan. A lot is said about the marketplace of health care. Well, for half of people who are getting their health plan through an employer, their employer offers such a narrow range of plans that they the
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