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Cybercast News Service, by Christopher Neefus Posted By: KarenJ1- Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:32:40 GMT Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Friday that President Barack Obama “basically doesn’t care about” foreign affairs, considering them ancillary to his domestic agenda. He said he thinks Obama’s view of the United States’ role in the world is comparable to that of failed presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. “I think the most significant aspect of the president’s approach to foreign and national security policy is that he basically doesn’t care about it,” Bolton said in a Capitol Hill speech organized

from: http://www.newmediablog.com/2011/01/bolton-says-obama-%c2%91basically-doesn%c2%92t-care-about%c2%92-foreign-policy-compares-him-to-dukakis/

ABC News, by John R. Parkinson Posted By: KarenJ1- Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:28:50 GMT Just weeks into the new House Republican majority, the headline of this article could reference a streak of legislative accomplishments lined up by Speaker of the House John Boehner and passed by the GOP House. But, after Boehner fielded a familiar question for at least the third time in the past six months, the speaker is instead making headlines for his slightly improvised answer about his chronic smoking habit. Fox News Sunday’s host Chris Wallace used the final question of his interview Sunday to ask Boehner, “We like you. Why don’t you stop smoking?”

from: http://www.newmediablog.com/2011/01/the-smokin%c2%92-speaker/

by Jan Henderson, PhD

In the very first episode of the TV series Marcus Welby, MD, our hero delivers an after dinner speech to a group of young interns. As he’s introduced, he hastily scribbles the title of his talk and hands it to the hospital director: “The future of the general practice of medicine, if any.” The year was 1969.

In his introduction, the director somewhat tactlessly remarks that many “eminent specialists” have addressed the group in the past, but tonight they have a general practitioner.

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Read the rest of Marcus Welby and the relentless growth of specialization

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