They used to drink all day, days in a row, weekends drunk, into work on Monday, drunk.

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And because of their refusal to cooperate, all those Americans could face a tax hike in just 11 days, and millions of Americans who are out there looking for work could find their unemployment insurance expired.

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An idea of how it might all work was given a few days ago by Sarkis Meterissian, a cancer specialist at McGill University in Montreal, at a meeting of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco.

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