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Recently Posted American Stories
Final Choice
Before hi-tech medicine, death was a member of the family, something families nearly always chose to have happen at home. Today, 8 out of 10 Americans die in hospitals, surrounded by strangers. Often alone in webs of wires and tubes. Hospice care gives the terminally ill a chance to live a near normal life, until they die. A quarter of million Americans at the end of their lives have checked themselves out of hospitals and into hospice programs. In 1974 there was one hospice in America. Twenty years later there were 2,000. Mostly staffed by volunteers. That keeps costs low. On average, about $80 a day. Nearly 10 times cheaper than some hospital stays. Add in Medicaire and Medicaid, the out of pocket cost — $16 bucks a day. Nine out of ten hospice programs are in people’s homes. For those whose final choice is to go gently, they will not be forced to do otherwise.
Animal Beauty Aids for People
Animal grooming products have become some of the hottest beauty aids for people. A lot of folks who’d never been inside a feed store began using them. 90 % use horse products for themselves. That pushed sales for “Main and Tail” from $500,000 to $30 million. Farm mothers have quietly used these protein lotions for years. They are about half as expensive as what comparable products cost in the beauty shop.
Desoto Hour
Most of the time Georgia Tech’s Rambling Wreck radio sounds like a three car pile up. Even among college stations, its programming is considered extreme. But stuck between “Concussion Theater” and a show called “Tongue Bath” is the station’s longest running program — Fred Runde’s Desoto Hour — the show with the most listeners. The 77-year-old disc jockey is not a Georgia Tech student. Nor a teacher. Never was. He’s been spinning Big Band magic here since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Fred wandered through the door looking for something to do in retirement. Students swooned for his oasis of sound. Runde believes that noise is merely music someone doesn’t want to hear.
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