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Nov 20, 2009 Harry Reid's health care reform plan --- titled, "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act --- the one he didn't let anybody see until Wednesday night --- is ready to be voted on, he says.

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Nov 20, 2009 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has opened a sweeping inquiry into the Fort Hood shootings in which 13 soldiers and civilians were killed.

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Nov 20, 2009 The top Page One headline in "The Washington Post" this morning reads: "Angry Congress Lashes Out at Obama / Economic Woes Taking A Toll / House Republicans call on Geithner to resign."

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Nov 20, 2009 On our annual "Sunday Morning" Food Issue on television this weekend, Barry Petersen takes note of the fact although this has been a banner year for crops...

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Nov 18, 2009 This week, researchers at IBM Corporation proudly announced that --- using a massive supercomputer with 147,000 processors and 144 terabytes of main memory --- that's many, many times as many processors and 100,000 times as much memory as your PC or Mac --- they have succeeded in simulating the function of the cerebral cortex --- the thinking part --- of the brain ... of a cat.

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Pretty Good

There once was a pretty good student.
Who sat in a pretty good class
And was taught by a pretty good teacher.
Who always let pretty good pass.

He wasn't terrific at reading;
He wasn't a whiz-bang at math;
But for him education was leading
Straight down a pretty good path.

He didn't find school too exciting,
But he wanted to do pretty well.
And he did have some trouble with writing,
And nobody had taught him to spell.

When doing arithmetic problems,
Pretty good was regarded as fine;
Five and five needn't always add up to be ten.
A pretty good answer was nine.

The pretty good student was happy
With the standards that were in effect.
And nobody thought it was sappy
If his answers were not quite correct.

The pretty good class that he sat in
Was part of a pretty good school.
And the student was not an exception;
On the contrary, he was the rule.

The pretty good school that he went to
Was right there in a pretty good town.
And nobody there ever noticed
He could not tell a verb from a noun.

The pretty good student, in fact, was
A part of a pretty good mob,
And the first time he knew what he lacked was
When he looked for a pretty good job.

It was then, when he sought a position,
He discovered that life can be tough,
And he soon had a sneaky suspicion
Pretty good might not be good enough.

The pretty good town in our story
Was part of a pretty good state
Which had pretty good aspirations
and prayed for a pretty good fate.

There was once a pretty good nation.
Pretty proud of the greatness it had.
But which learned much too late.
If you want to be great,
Pretty good is, in fact, pretty bad.

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