Mar 19, 2010 Well, House Democrats have agreed to vote on the Senate's health care reform bill --- except for 153 pages of changes. A vote is now set for Sunday. They need 216 votes to get it passed. |
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Mar 19, 2010 The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Democrats' health care bill is just what the doctor ordered for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. |
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Mar 19, 2010 The criminal mind is exceedingly inventive. Every time the good guys develop a way to make life better for this world and the people on it, the bad guys come up with a way to take advantage of it. |
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Mar 19, 2010 The Muzak Corporation --- based in Fort Mill, South Carolina --- has had its ups and downs over the years, which is fitting for a company that started out 75 years ago to literally provide elevator music. |
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Mar 18, 2010 When is a vote not a vote? If House Speaker Pelosi decides not to put members on the spot by making each one actually cast a vote, and simply "deems" the health care bill passed, is that still a vote? |
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Mar 18, 2010 Representative Dennis Kucinich, the liberal Democrat from Ohio, doesn't like the health care bill the House is in the final stages of working on. |
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Mar 18, 2010 Last year, about 6.6 million U.S. households had at least three generations of family members, according to the Census figures. Multi-generation family households have made a comeback. |
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Mar 18, 2010 The return of Tiger Woods to golf at The Masters will no doubt get at least a thousand times the media attention as a meeting in Qatar of the fate of real tigers. |
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Mar 17, 2010 In the final analysis of Congressional paralysis, the test of will on the health care bill a bill which incidentally we all have yet to see who would have thought that things would get where they now seem to be? |
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Mar 17, 2010 The Pew Center on The States' Public Safety Performance Project is out with a new prison census for last year. |
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Mar 17, 2010 It's been 12 years since the discovery of the human embryonic stem cell. There's been a lot of controversy about using it in medical research --- a lot of hype about it, too. But CBS News Medical Correspondent Jon LaPook says research is finally picking up steam. |
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Mar 17, 2010 It is St. Patrick's Day. You know, I used to march in New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade when I was a college student at Fordham. And I used to wonder whether my fellow marchers and parade viewers were taking the day --- or at least, part of the day --- off? These days, according to a survey commissioned by CareerBuilder.Com, workers are not as liable to take time off --- or even be late --- for work. |
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Mar 16, 2010 It was two years ago today that the Wall Street giant Bear Stearns collapsed like a house of cards, and JPMorgan Chase picked up what was left of it in a fire sale --- and earlier this year, ended any use of the name "Bear Stearns." It was only a precursor to the meltdown that was soon to come. |
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Mar 16, 2010 Nearly two years after the Wall Street financial meltdown that required massive bailouts and kicked off The Great Recession, it's been pretty much business-as-usual with the financial firms. |
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Mar 16, 2010 The deadly drug war in Mexico, especially across the border from El Paso in Ciudad Juarez --- where 2,600 people were killed last year --- has killed three people associated with the U.S. Consulate. |
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Mar 16, 2010 Law enforcement authorities are looking at some new ways to find out who was at the scene of a crime. I'm talking about those little microscopic creatures who live on your skin --- no kidding! |
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Mar 15, 2010 It's the Ides of March. Beware of the Ides of March, Julius Caesar was warned in Shakespeare's play. And it is the beginning of what could be a fateful week in Washington as a vote nears on a huge and controversial health care bill in the House, and House Democratic Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina tries to whip up the needed 216 votes which he doesn't have at this moment. |
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Mar 15, 2010 I'm assuming that you're getting at least some of your minimum daily requirement of finding out what's going on in the world on radio. Otherwise you wouldn't be hearing what I'm saying right now. Total radio listenership is not down, it's up. And some of the most listened to stations across the country are news and news-talk. |
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Mar 15, 2010 In 2007 R.J Reynolds came out with a new brand they call Camel Number Nine designed to appeal to women. There was a pink camel on each cigarette and black packaging trimmed with hot pink or teal. The extra longs were marketed as stilettos and ads were run in magazines like Vogue Glamour, Cosmopolitan and the like. |
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Mar 15, 2010 Do you have a leaky heart valve? A lot of people do, an estimated eight million here in the United States and in Europe. Most of them don't require treatment or at least aren't treated unless they're so bad it's life threatening because the only approved treatment is open heart surgery, which carries its own risks and a lengthy period of recuperation. |
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Mar 12, 2010 A tentative settlement has been reached that could pay out 657-and-a-half million dollars to some 10,000 rescue and recovery workers who were sickened by the dust from the World Trade Center. |
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Mar 12, 2010 American households are gradually regaining the wealth they had before the recession hit. |
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Mar 12, 2010 When our CBS News colleague Kimberly Dozier was severely injured in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq, Army Medic Sergeant Lacye Presley was the first to help her. |
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Mar 12, 2010 One of America's most inventive and successful people is the inventor Dean Kamen. You may know him for the Segway transporter. |
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Mar 11, 2010 In Congressional politics, they say you've got to be able to count. While the Congressional Budget Office is crunching the numbers to get at the cost of the health care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is counting votes. |
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Mar 11, 2010 Overall, the sick economy has at least been sitting up and taking nourishment the last year or so. But there are still parts of the economic picture that are worrisome. Take foreclosures, for example. |
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Mar 11, 2010 Demonizing is rampant in politics. But you don't have to be a politician - or even a person - to be demonized. Substances can be demonized, too. And right now, high fructose corn syrup is getting the treatment. |
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Mar 11, 2010 In West Cape May, New Jersey - near the Jersey Shore - "The Midnight Knitter" has struck once more... |
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Mar 10, 2010 "Once burned, twice shy," they say. And a lot of people who got burned and saw their nest eggs cut in half when the stock market fell got out - and have stayed out. Meanwhile, the markets have come back up in the last year, in one of the most remarkable rallies in history. And yet... |
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Mar 10, 2010 Better late than never. Some World War II WASPs are being honored in Washington this morning with the Congressional Gold Medal. |
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Mar 10, 2010 Smartphones, like iPhones and Blackberries, have made it so easy to stay connected to the office that more and more users don't seem to know where to draw the line. And I'm not just talking about behind the wheel of their cars... |
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Mar 10, 2010 America is still wonderfully inventive and creative, but it's too bad a lot of even the best American products are actually made in China. |
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Mar 9, 2010 In the afterglow of the Oscars, a lot of America is still thinking Hollywood. In a movie, you've got to have villains, bad guys. And in the movie "Health Care Reform," there's no question who's being cast as the bad guys by President Obama. |
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Mar 9, 2010 It was one year ago today that Wall Street bottomed out and began heading up. The economy, meanwhile, has been seeing slow but steady improvement - with one stubborn, but very important, exception: jobs. |
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Mar 9, 2010 Taxes and tax breaks have often been used to encourage certain kinds of activities and discourage others. Now, it's suggested that an 18% tax on pizza and sugared soft drinks would help fight America's obesity problem, especially childhood obesity. |
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Mar 9, 2010 Whatever, in their wisdom, the Members of Congress do pass in the way of health care reform legislation - if indeed, they're able to stop beating each other about the head and shoulders, and pass anything at all - they can do so assured that whatever it does for us - or to us - will not apply to them. |
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Mar 8, 2010 Iraq's election commission says the results of yesterday's voting will be released within days. Iraqi voters turned out in impressive numbers yesterday, defying a wave of insurgent attacks that killed at least 38 people across the country. Says President Obama... |
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Mar 8, 2010 Harry Truman famously said once that he needed a one-handed economist - because all the ones he consulted kept telling him, "On the one hand, this..." and "On the other hand, that..." So it is to this day. |
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Mar 8, 2010 Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, told Bob Schieffer on CBS News "Face the Nation" yesterday that he's offered President Obama a deal: close down the prison at Guantanamo, but try enemy combatants - including Khalid Sheik Mohammed - in military, not civilian, courts. |
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Mar 8, 2010 There's a Northern California regionalism that started in Oakland, we're told, under which the phrase "Hell of a..." - as is hell of a party, hell of a movie, hell of a ballgame - is contracted to "Hella." Many people there say, "Hella party" - "Hella movie" - "Hella ballgame." |
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Mar 5, 2010 The President's health care endgame is supposed to work as follows. He knows the House generally hates the bill passed by the Senate. So, he makes them a deal. |
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Mar 5, 2010 Another reason to thank a terrorist next time you see one: free body scans at the airport! And we'll get them whether health reform passes or not. |
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Mar 5, 2010 It was 30 years ago that Louis Alvarez and his son Walter published their legendary paper about the extinction of the dinosaurs - concluding that they were done in by a huge asteroid that so changed the environment, they couldn't survive. |
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Mar 5, 2010 Tomorrow in Los Angeles, a group of students will hold a fundraiser for one of their teachers, who's dying of cancer at the age of 79. |
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Mar 4, 2010 Well, it's finally happened. Even the guy who loves to debate is sick of it. |
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Mar 4, 2010 Well, I guess we've discovered the limits of the Take Your Children To Work concept. |
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Mar 4, 2010 At a time when the Federal Government is ordering failing schools to fire principals and teachers, I thought it might be refreshing to hear of a school reform program that seems to be working. |
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Mar 4, 2010 The Democrats may think they're about to put health care behind them, but Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has other plans. |
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Mar 3, 2010 Postmaster General Jack Potter says the U.S. Postal Service is going to lose seven billion dollars this year, unless it can cut costs now. And he had an interesting explanation for the problem the post office faces. |
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Mar 3, 2010 Suddenly, the U.S. car industry is back - GM sales up nearly 12% in February, Ford sales up more than 40%, even Chrysler was up. And then, there's Toyota - down 9%. |
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Mar 3, 2010 The Supreme Court has just heard another right-to-keep-and-bear-arms case - and I think the criminals might as well save themselves some trouble, and leave the country now. |
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Mar 3, 2010 Senator Jim Bunning finally threw in the towel. The Senate broke his one-man blockade of Federal unemployment benefits - and the checks will be in the mail, as usual. |
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Mar 2, 2010 You want to know how to stop Federal spending? If you're a Senator, it's remarkably simple. |
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Mar 2, 2010 The letters come without warning. |
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Mar 2, 2010 For more than two years, California teenager McKay Hatch has been on a crusade to convince kids not to cuss. And CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone says the California Assembly has finally noticed. |
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Mar 2, 2010 You would think that in a state as red as South Carolina, a law meant to annoy leftists would be more than welcome. But no! |
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Mar 1, 2010 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is telling her trembling Democratic caucus that the moment has come to pass health care reform. |
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Mar 1, 2010 The earthquake that hit Chile over the weekend is tied with the fifth most powerful earthquake in recorded history, more powerful than the earthquake that hit Haiti by a factor of 500. |
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Mar 1, 2010 The doomsayers are always warning us that our current level of government spending is unsustainable - that if we don't do something, the whole thing will collapse. We hear those warnings so often, it's like a Greek Chorus. |
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Mar 1, 2010 Teenagers, losing interest in driving? Oh, come on! The Federal Government collects the data, and the trend is clear: In 2008, less than a third of the eligible teenagers got their drivers' licenses. Twenty years ago, the figure was 45%. |
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Feb 26, 2010 The historic health care summit is over, and it produced ... mostly an agreement to disagree. |
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Feb 26, 2010 It's not as if the United States is declaring victory in Afghanistan, but a Pentagon spokesman is marking at least one more step in the effort to keep the Taliban from again running large parts of the country... |
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Feb 26, 2010 In the aftermath of the death of a trainer, some are re-thinking how humans should interact with one of the biggest animals around - the orca. |
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Feb 26, 2010 Please raise your hand if you hate to exercise. OK, I see some of you hate exercise so much, you won't even raise your hand. This report is probably not for you. But for the rest of us, a new study suggests how we might get the most out of the miserable time we spend at the gym. |
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Feb 25, 2010 Toyota's top executive moves from the driver's seat to the hot seat... |
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Feb 25, 2010 This is it! The big day in Washington when President Obama and other top Democrats meet face-to-face with top Republican leaders for a public discussion on health care! |
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Feb 25, 2010 Here's a story you'll want to remember when you get your next electricity bill. A company called Bloom Energy in San Jose, California says it's come up with a new technology for fuel cells, which someday would allow homes and businesses to generate their own electricity. |
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Feb 25, 2010 You know how some people seem willing to share everything about themselves online? They Tweet or send emails or instant messages about every aspect of their lives - including where they are. Or where they aren't. Which is where the website Please Rob Me comes in. |
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Feb 24, 2010 Maybe you think you have a rotten job, but it could be worse. You could be a top executive at Toyota, trying to explain to skeptical members of Congress why you're getting some serious complaints about your products. |
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Feb 24, 2010 What kind of a bonus did you get at work last year? That's assuming you had a job. Bet you didn't get anything near what some of the folks on Wall Street got. |
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Feb 24, 2010 Two reports from the front when it comes to the U.S. Military - and how gays and women are treated. The Army Chief of Staff says, with Americans fighting in two wars, now is not the time to drop the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy... |
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Feb 24, 2010 There's a pretty good chance you're listening to me while stuck in a traffic jam - or if you aren't in one now, you soon will be. I'm going to tell you why this is good. No, really! |
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Feb 23, 2010 Another reading assignment for those taking part in this week's big health care summit at the White House: Go over President Obama's new plan. And, yes, it will be discussed. Oh, man, will it be discussed! |
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Feb 23, 2010 Attorney General Eric Holder called it one of the most serious threats to the U.S. since the September 11th attacks. Now, the man accused of planning to bomb New York City is pleading guilty - and, maybe more importantly, could be cooperating with investigators. |
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Feb 23, 2010 There's no getting around it: Civilians get killed in wars. But U.S. and allied troops fighting in the Afghan town of Marjah say they're doing all they can to prevent it. Sometimes, though, they can't do enough... |
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Feb 23, 2010 Well, Elvis, you wouldn't be bragging about that book if it had one of these titles: "Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter" - "Bacon, a Love Story" - or maybe "The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease"! |
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Feb 22, 2010 If you're like millions of Americans, the answer is: credit cards, and lots of them. Which means the new rules that go into effect today on credit cards affect you, Mr. and Ms. American Consumer. |
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Feb 22, 2010 I know! Let's all go over to the President's house for a thoughtful, civil, constructive discussion on revamping the entire health care system! |
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Feb 22, 2010 It may not be an epic battle on the scale of, say, the Normandy Invasion - but, if you're fighting in it, the battle for the Afghan town of Marjah is every bit as harrowing... |
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Feb 22, 2010 He's a short person - a very short person, maybe the shortest in the world. And he has every reason to live. |
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Feb 19, 2010 President Obama campaigns today in Nevada for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who's running for re-election in November and behind in the polls. Yesterday, it was Colorado and Democratic Senator Michael Bennet he was stumping for --- Bennet also doing poorly in the polls. |
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Feb 19, 2010 In Afghanistan, the long-awaited offensive against the Taliban insurgents in their stronghold --- the city of Marjah --- is slow going. No way it could be otherwise, says CBS News Military Consultant Jeff McCausland. |
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Feb 19, 2010 The Federal Reserve did something yesterday that took the markets by surprise. They bumped one particular interest rate --- the so-called "discount rate" that banks pay for emergency loans --- by one quarter of a point. |
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Feb 19, 2010 How many times have you been told never to put off until tomorrow what you can do today? That's the standard anti-procrastination wisdom. Personally, I am pro-crastination. My motto is "Never do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow." |
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Feb 18, 2010 One full year after President Obama signed the 787 billion dollar stimulus program called "The Recovery Act" --- yesterday, with unemployment at 9.7%, he called for more of the same. By his reckoning... |
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Feb 18, 2010 The Dalai Lama will visit President Obama at the White House today. No formal reception or dinner, no joint news conference with flashbulbs blazing. |
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Feb 18, 2010 When it comes to the pension obligations to employees of the fifty states --- right now, the states are a day late and a dollar short. Make that at least a day late and a trillion dollars short. |
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Feb 18, 2010 We mentioned recently here that the heart is not the center of love --- the brain is. |
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Feb 17, 2010 Have you heard what the State of Texas is doing? |
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Feb 17, 2010 It's almost a truism now to say that America doesn't manufacture things any more. In industry and industry, year after year, we make fewer and fewer things here. |
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Feb 17, 2010 There's a genetic component in many diseases, and scientists now say that the knowledge gained from our mapping of the human genome is the most promising avenue for medical research. |
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Feb 17, 2010 In the Journal of the American Medical Association are the results of a new study of the remains of King Tutankhamun. |
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Feb 16, 2010 A major capture in Karachi, Pakistan: the second fish in the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistan operation. Who is this guy? |
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Feb 16, 2010 In Southern Afghanistan, American and Afghani troops are in the fourth day now of a major offensive against the insurgent stronghold of Marjah --- for several reasons, says CBS News Military Consultant, retired U.S. Army Major Mike Lyons. |
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Feb 16, 2010 Poor Congress. Hardly anybody loves Congress, according to the most recent polls. And apparently, that includes Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana. |
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Feb 16, 2010 Once upon a time, in the days of the old radio show "Bulldog Drummond," there was always plenty of fog every week... |
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Feb 15, 2010 When Vice President Joe Biden last week called the success of the surge in Iraq one of the accomplishments of the Obama Administration, the Sunday talk shows took note. |
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Feb 15, 2010 What will happen now that Iran is bragging about being a nuclear power, further enriching uranium towards weapons-grade --- rejecting any calls to stop this, any offers to even talk about it? |
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Feb 15, 2010 Last Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to scrap the bipartisan "jobs bill" that had been worked out --- and would likely have passed --- and took out most of the things that got Republicans to go along. So, the "jobs bill" is very much up in the air. |
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Feb 15, 2010 Before the Valentine's Day roses begin to wilt and while there are still some chocolates left in the box, I want you to hear some of Martha Teichner's piece on our "Sunday Morning" television broadcast yesterday --- her subject was First Couples. |
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