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vices Department reveals six distinct groups, three of which appear critical to the success or failure of the program.
• They're the "Healthy & Young," comprising 48 percent of the uninsured, the "Sick, Active & Worried," (29 percent of the uninsured), and the "Passive & Unen
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gaged" (15 percent).
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Monday, April 1, the 91st day of 2013. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool's Day.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 1, 1789, the U.S. House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York; Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first House speaker.
• On this date:
• In 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio, established a fire department made up of paid city employees.
• In 1912, the city of Branson, Mo., was incorporated.
• In 1933, Nazi Germany staged a daylong national boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
• In 1939, the United States recognized the government of Gen. Francisco Franco in Spain, the same day Franco went on radio to declare victory in the Spanish Civil War.
• In 1945, American forces launched the amphibious invasion of Okinawa during World War II.
• In 1962, the Katherine Anne Porter novel "Ship of Fools," an allegory about the rise of Nazism in Germany, was published by Little, Brown & Co. on April Fool's Day.
• In 1963, New York City's daily newspapers resumed publishing after settlement was reached in a 114-day strike. The daytime drama "General Hospital" premiered on ABC-TV.
• In 1972, the first Major League Baseball players' strike began; it lasted 12 days.
• In 1976, Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
• In 1983, tens of thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators linked arms in a 14-mile (Continued on page 30)
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