Boos turn to Yays

In her con­ces­sion speech to Barack Obama today, Hillary Clin­ton admirably achieved her goals: acknowl­edge sup­port­ers who worked so tire­lessly toward mak­ing her America’s first female pres­i­dent, solid­ify her claim as America’s pre­mier woman in pol­i­tics, and direct her sup­port­ers to the urgency of elect­ing Obama as our Demo­c­ra­tic pres­i­dent in Novem­ber. The mea­sure of […]

Preventive Maintenance

A recent story[1] by Seat­tle Times staff reporter Richard Seven starts like this: “After per­form­ing more than 3,000 weight-loss surg­eries dur­ing a three-decade career, James Weber closes his prac­tice this month to become a yoga instruc­tor. Con­sider it a quality-of-life move.” Think about it. Giv­ing up a six-figure career to focus instead on the pre­ven­tive root […]