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World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

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Op-Ed Columnist - Until Medical Bills Do Us Part

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Critics fret that health care reform would undermine American family values, not least by convening somber death panels to wheel away Grandma as if she were Old Yeller . Skip to next paragraph Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Nicholas D. Kristof On the Ground Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels. Go to Blog » Go to Columnist Page » Related Times Topics: Health Care Reform Readers' Comments Readers shared their thoughts on this article. Read All Comments (302) » But peel away the emotions and fearmongering, and in fact it is the existing system that unnecessarily takes lives and breaks apart families. My friend M. — you’ll understand in a moment why she’s terrified of my using her name — had to make a searing decision...