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How To Make Exercise Fun

As I have thought about how to change human behavior to get people to do healthier things, I remember the 1984 movie The Karate Kid. In that movie, the lead character, Daniel LaRusso,

Dogs Can Truly Be Our Best Friends

During the course of determining whether I should invest in a documentary film about dogs, I gained some quite interesting insights into the potentially new role dogs can play in our health care

Pitney Bowes World Headquarters Sale

I applaud Pitney Bowes’ recent decision to sell its World Headquarters. In fact, I wish I had made it years ago. The Pitney Bowes World Headquarters was designed in the early 1980’s,

Making Healthy Behaviors Attractive

In the July 1 New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/01menthol.html], there was an interesting article about the effort of the Congressional Black Caucus to get the

Government Pension Liability

In my last blog, I commented on a July 11 article by Mary Walsh of the New York Times on the crisis relative to horrifically large pension and retiree medical obligations for government