The Road To Wellness (East Hampton Independent) I'm not one to take medications. I've always felt the vodka will kill whatever ails me, and knock on wood, so far I've been pretty lucky. I virtually never get sick and I haven't been in the hospital since I had my tonsils out when I was 11....more...Too fat to work (Times Online Sunday) Almost two thousand people who are too fat to work have been paid a total of £4.4 million in benefit, it emerged last night. Other payments went to fifty sufferers of acne and ten incapacitated by leprosy....more... Tough incapacity test to cut 20,000 claims (Times Online) Ministers attempted to get their welfare reform programme back on track yesterday after it emerged that billions of pounds are being paid out in incapacity benefit to people suffering stress, fatigue and even acne....more... 11-06-07 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb) OPRAH 'CLEANING HOUSE' AT GIRLS ACADEMY: TV host speaks to reporters; 27-year-old suspect out on bail. *Oprah Winfrey faced reporters in South Africa Monday for the first time since allegations of physical and sexual abuse rocked the campus of her exclusive all-girl academy....more... |