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Download This IssueMail Call: Bills, a letter from your Aunt Mary, a circular from a local department store, your monthly bank statement, and an offer for a new credit card that says you’ve been “prescreened,” “prequalified” or “pre-approved.”
A “pre-screened” offer of credit? What’s that?
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The diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders have come a long way in recent years. In the past, people who snored might be advised to sew a tennis ball onto the back of their pajama top. The “snore ball” would discourage them from sleeping on their back and might quiet their droning. Or a doctor might use the “dog index” to measure poor sleep: If your dog generally sleeps with you but by morning has left the bed more than half the time, it may be because you’re such a loud, restless sleeper that the dog has gone elsewhere for some peace and quiet.
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Memos from Malis...One of the more infamous legal battles involved the medical treatment of Terri Schaivo, a young woman from Florida who suffered from cardiac arrest and was in a coma for several years. Her family could not agree how to proceed with her medical treatment, and this resulted in an epic legal battle that lasted from 1998-2005. Terri Schaivo did not have a Health Care Power of Attorney (POA) in place to guide her family on her wishes for medical treatment. If Terri Schaivo had a Health Care POA, her family would have known what her medical wishes were, and there would have been one person, her agent, assigned to carry out these wishes on her behalf.
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