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 19, 2009 Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try the top terrorist suspect in the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in a civilian court in New York --- rather than in a military tribunal --- has drawn heavy criticism from Senate Republicans. |
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Nov 19, 2009 About the last thing proponents of more government control over health care needed was for a government-appointed panel to come out with the recommendation it did this week: that breast cancer screenings should start at the age of 50, rather than 40. |
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Nov 19, 2009 A Federal judge found last evening that poor maintenance by the Army Corps of Engineers of a navigational channel was responsible for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina. |
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Nov 19, 2009 President Obama wants to "recast" U.S. relations with Cuba. Back in April of this year, he said... |
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Nov 18, 2009 President Obama found some time --- after six hours of meetings, two dinners, and a joint news conference in which China's President Hu refused to take any questions or make any public concessions --- to sit down, one at a time, with reporters from some of the major news organizations accompanying him on his Asian trip. |
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Nov 18, 2009 The Treasury Department now puts the national debt at more than 12 trillion dollars, the most it's ever been. Economists are getting to be like astronomers --- they now use astronomical numbers like 12 trillion. |
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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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Nov 18, 2009 We have a situation in this country where a third of our kids will not graduate from high school --- and then in many of our largest urban areas, the areas covered by this study --- that number will run as high as 40 or 50 percent won't graduate. |
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Nov 17, 2009 President Obama and China's President Hu Jintao emerged from two-and-a-half hours of intense conversation in Beijing, with no indication of any specific progress on any issues --- but with everything expressed, as if there was agreement. |
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Nov 17, 2009 In analyzing any speech or statement by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, you have to pay special attention to the "howevers" and the "neverthelesses." |
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Nov 17, 2009 Even though my kids are a lot smarter than I am when it comes to computers and the digital world, I try to explain to them that there is some benefit to age and experience --- "Live and learn," as they say. |
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Nov 17, 2009 The best whiskeys are aged. But there are two crates of vintage McKinlay and Company Scotch that were shipped to the Antarctic for the British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shacketon in 1909 that were abandoned --- but are still there. |
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Nov 16, 2009 It's been 45 years since Walter Cronkite showed America something that they'd never seen before...They called it the Bullet Train. |
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Nov 16, 2009 Applying for a job is never easy, especially these days. You want to dress the right way, say the right things, and make the right impression. |
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Nov 16, 2009 What is a nice supposedly law-abiding person like you doing, walking around with traces of cocaine in your pocket? |
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Nov 16, 2009 People can and do change. Five years ago, when he was 28, Scott Harrison had it made. |
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Nov 13, 2009 Federal prosecutors yesterday filed a complaint against the Alavi Foundation --- and gave notice of the U.S. government's intention to seize a half a billion dollars in foundation assets here in the United States. |
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Nov 13, 2009 The government has had to revise what it's been telling us about the extent of the swine flu pandemic in this country. |
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Nov 13, 2009 When President Obama talks about his upcoming decision on Afghanistan --- as he did in a news conference in Tokyo today --- it's clear he wants things to be clear, and clear-cut, and precise... |
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Nov 13, 2009 Today is Friday the 13th --- not that there's anything wrong about that, or unusual. |
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Nov 12, 2009 President Obama doesn't like --- and won't accept --- any of the Afghanistan options he's been given. This according to senior officials in a position to know, but who don't want to be identified. |
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Nov 12, 2009 Numbers can fool you, sometimes --- the new RealtyTrac figures on home foreclosures for last month are still high. |
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Nov 12, 2009 Unlike the Federal Government --- which can spend more money than it takes in indefinitely, simply by adding to the national debt --- we all pay a price for that, but they can do it --- state and local governments have to balance their budgets. |
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Nov 12, 2009 Emergency legislation has been proposed in Congress to guarantee all workers a week of paid sick leave. |
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Nov 11, 2009 The thirteen people shot to death at Fort Hood last week --- 12 soldiers and one civilian --- ten men and three women, ranging in age from 19 to 62, who among them left behind 19 children --- were honored there yesterday at a memorial service attended by 15,000 people --- including the President of the United States. |
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Nov 11, 2009 Today, we celebrate Veterans Day, honoring all those who served America in all our wars. |
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Nov 11, 2009 Veterans Day honors not just those who lost their lives, but all those who served in the military --- some of whom were able to come back home and resume their lives after the wars they fought, and without being reminded every day of what happened when they wore the uniform. |
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Nov 11, 2009 The Roman Catholic Church has had a very hard time shaking off the anti-scientific reputation it earned 400 years ago, when it locked up Galileo --- for challenging the now obviously mistaken view that the Earth was the center of the universe. |
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Nov 10, 2009 The American dollar has taken a real tumble --- driving up the price in dollars of gold, oil, and other commodities --- as well as stock prices on U.S. and foreign exchanges. |
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Nov 10, 2009 U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan --- who is accused of shooting 13 people to death, and wounding many others at Fort Hood --- is now reportedly able to sit up in his hospital bed and talk. |
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Nov 10, 2009 President Obama isn't ready to announce it yet, but according to an exclusive CBS News report from David Martin at the Pentagon... |
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Nov 10, 2009 On this day 40 years ago --- November 10th, 1969 --- the first episode of the wonderful children's television show "Sesame Street" went on the air. |
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Nov 9, 2009 It was on this date 20 years ago that despised wall separating West and East Berlin began to come down. |
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Nov 9, 2009 It was close Saturday night as the House voted on health care reform... |
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Nov 9, 2009 The cases of two men serving life sentences in Florida without possibility of parole will be heard today by the U.S. Supreme Court. They were both minors when they committed the crimes they were convicted of and sentenced for. |
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Nov 9, 2009 Although health authorities are trying to catch up with the demand for the H1N1 swine flu vaccine --- and telling people that it's especially important for children to get it --- there still is a shortfall. |
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Nov 6, 2009 The toll in yesterday's shootings at Fort Hood, Texas stands now at 13 killed, 28 others wounded. And the man now identified as the shooter is an Army major and psychiatrist named Nidal Malik Hassan. |
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Nov 6, 2009 We're close now to a major legislative test on health care reform. |
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Nov 6, 2009 Not very much attention has been paid until now to the effects of air pollution on young infants. |
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Nov 6, 2009 Centuries of evolution have shaped human hearing to recognize and appreciate subtle changes in sound --- the wind blowing through the trees, the song of birds, sometimes a distant cry of distress or of approaching danger. |
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Nov 5, 2009 At a meeting of its Open Market Committee yesterday, the Fed decided to keep its key interest rate at current record lows for an "extended period." |
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Nov 5, 2009 Decisionmaking about a place like Afghanistan is difficult, because the enemy keeps forcing your hand. |
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Nov 5, 2009 In an ideal world, all an agency like the FDA would have to do is just put information on the medicine bottle and that would be enough. But in the real world --- in the bathrooms and hospitals, doctor's offices, and homes --- people make mistakes. |
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Nov 5, 2009 The three strains of regular seasonal flu should not be taken lightly --- they kill 36,000 people a year in the United States. It's still a little early for that sort of flu --- there've been virtually no cases of it so far --- but it is coming. The H1N1 swine flu is a different story, though. |
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Nov 4, 2009 On the morning after Election Day, the Governor of New Jersey is, Chris Christie. |
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Nov 4, 2009 Although President Obama campaigned for the losing gubernatorial candidate in both New Jersey and Virginia, the White House can point to exit polls that say Obama was not a factor in either state. |
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Nov 4, 2009 Today, on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Iran by Islamic militants and the seizing of 52 hostages there, there were government-sponsored demonstrations at the embassy site in Tehran --- people waving anti American signs and shouting anti-American slogans. |
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Nov 4, 2009 In setting up priorities for the available H1N1 flu vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control continues to favor children. |
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Nov 3, 2009 President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has been declared the President of Afghanistan, and therefore that is what he is. |
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Nov 3, 2009 It's Election Day today. These aren't the midterms; those aren't until next November. But here and there, there are contests that could be portents --- harbingers, perhaps, depending on where you stand --- of things to come. |
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Nov 3, 2009 When the Fed meets today and tomorrow, those who lend or who borrow will be listening hard to detect any sign whatsoever that the Fed may suspect there'll be interest rate hikes up ahead. |
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Nov 3, 2009 There are various therapies to get smokers to quit --- lozenges, patches, chewing gum, sprays, inhalers, you name it -- alone or in combinations. And they all seem to work --- for a while, anyway. |
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Nov 2, 2009 Afghanistan's election commission has canceled next Saturday's presidential runoff --- and has declared President Hamid Karzai the winner. |
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Nov 2, 2009 Yesterday, after months of struggling to avoid collapse, CIT Group filed for bankruptcy protection. That is bad news for small business. |
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Nov 2, 2009 The H1N1 flu is now widespread in 48 states, and children are dying --- 19 children died of it in the week between October 17th to the 24th. |
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Nov 2, 2009 Supply and demand are the two factors that control the price of anything --- whether its food, fuel, or any commodity. |
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Oct 30, 2009 With economic numbers for the third quarter --- July through September --- reported and analyzed, the government can now speak of the recession in the past tense: it's over. And the R-Word question is now: Will the recovery hold? |
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Oct 30, 2009 As the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Military, President Obama meets today with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon's board of directors. This could be a pivotal meeting, as the President decides on the future of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
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Oct 30, 2009 Who would have thought that Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, two of the fiercest competitors in the history of basketball... |
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Oct 30, 2009 On Halloween, a lot of people will be dressed up as witches or ghosts or and goblins. But, you know what people really find frightening, according to a poll by CareerBuilder? |
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Oct 29, 2009 The government's first accounting of jobs "created or saved" by President Obama's 787 billion dollar stimulus program seems to be off more than just a little when held up to scrutiny. |
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Oct 29, 2009 In the defense bill that President Obama signed yesterday is money to pay Taliban fighters who renounce the insurgency in Afghanistan. |
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Oct 29, 2009 It was on this day 80 years ago --- October 29th, 1929 --- "Black Tuesday" --- that the stock market crashed --- starting a great chain of events, says history professor John Kneebone, connected to Virginia Commonwealth University. |
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Oct 29, 2009 Ever wonder what becomes of some of the people who appear on the TV reality shows? |
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Oct 28, 2009 President Obama has yet to make up his mind about a new course in Afghanistan. But his advisers say it is not a question of whether to send more troops there, but how many more. |
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Oct 28, 2009 Liberal Democrats were able to get their "public option" insurance idea into the health care bill by letting the states opt out if they want. |
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Oct 28, 2009 Dr. David Weir of the University of Michigan is the lead author of a study that was done for the National Football League. He says his work did not prove any connection between concussions and memory disorders. But, 56 former NFL players have reported memory-related problems, including dementia and Alzheimer's Disease. |
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Oct 28, 2009 Texting while driving a car is so manifestly stupid and dangerous that almost everybody says they think it ought to be against the law, according to the latest CBS News-New York Times Poll |
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Oct 27, 2009 Speaking to sailors and airmen at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station in Florida yesterday, President Obama referred to the 14 Americans killed in air crashes yesterday in Afghanistan. |
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Oct 27, 2009 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wanted to, as he puts it, "move forward" on health reform... |
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Oct 27, 2009 At a solar energy facility in Arcadia, Florida today, President Obama will announce that he's making 3.4 billion dollars in government funds available to make the nation's electric grid "smarter." |
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Oct 27, 2009 CBS News Medical Correspondent Jennifer Ashton is a practicing OB-GYN doctor --- and she tells us that more and more pregnant women are now looking for the H1N1 flu shot, and they're urged to do so. |
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Oct 26, 2009 In yesterday's car bombings near two government buildings in the heart of Baghdad, the death toll stands now at 155, more than 500 injured --- the deadliest such incident in Iraq in two years. |
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Oct 26, 2009 Trying to get economists to agree on anything is like herding cats. That's why a new survey out today is so remarkable --- and so encouraging. |
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Oct 26, 2009 Today at The Hague, on opening day of the trial of Radovan Karadzic... |
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Oct 26, 2009 No matter how cold it gets this winter, Simon Hare and his wife will not turn up the thermostat in their cozy 750 square foot, two-story cottage in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. That's because they don't have a thermostat, and that's because they have no furnace --- no heater of any kind --- to turn up. |
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Oct 23, 2009 Washington took charge of executive pay on two fronts yesterday. |
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Oct 23, 2009 The top executives at those seven companies whose pay the government has ordered substantially chopped were amazingly tone deaf, didn't understand --- or perhaps didn't care --- how the taxpayers would feel about them taking billion of taxpayer bailout dollars, and then giving themselves billions in bonuses. |
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Oct 23, 2009 To review NASA's plans for human space flight --- which include a revisit to the Moon, for which two new rockets and a capsule are being developed --- President Obama appointed an independent panel headed by Norman Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin. |
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Oct 23, 2009 What's going on with the price of oil? |
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Oct 22, 2009 The 25 highest-paid executives at each of the seven big companies that got the most bailout money from the government are having their salaries reduced by an average 90%, and their overall compensation cut in half --- by order of the government. |
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Oct 22, 2009 President Obama unveiled plans yesterday to refocus spending of what's left of the 700 billion dollar bailout money away from the biggest banks and financial institutions --- to make it easier for the much smaller community banks that theoretically lend to small business to actually do so. |
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Oct 22, 2009 The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial is out with it's latest "Un-Retirement Index." This latest finding is that 65% of American workers now expect to hold off retiring, for now --- and 27% now expect to work five years more than they ever thought they would. |
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Oct 22, 2009 The Holy Grail of radiation therapy for cancer would be to be to find a way to stop the radiation from hurting healthy cells. |
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Oct 21, 2009 Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and his chief rival, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, have both agreed to a runoff election to be held November 7th. That's two weeks from this Saturday. |
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Oct 21, 2009 New government figures on the swine flu came out yesterday: 292 people in 28 states have died of the flu since the end of August. |
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Oct 21, 2009 President Obama is expected to announce a new program to try to increase liquidity by giving small community banks access to the government's 700 billion dollar financial rescue fund. |
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Oct 21, 2009 Whatever you're looking for days, you can usually find on the Internet, even that special someone to share your life with. Computer dating is a big business here in the United States, and many people swear by it. But have you heard of Lisdoonvarna? |
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Oct 20, 2009 93% of the known executions in the world last year took place in five countries: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United States. |
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Oct 20, 2009 A panel of the Institute of Medicine is out today with proposed new standards for school cafeteria meals to replace the 14-year-old existing standards. |
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Oct 20, 2009 While giving you a routine physical, your primary care doctor could also check you out for skin cancer, especially for the deadly form called melanoma. |
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Oct 20, 2009 When we age --- not that I would know anything about this, you understand --- certain structural and functional changes occur in the brain that can make us seem ... not quite as sharp as we once were --- and sometimes cause those around us to fear that we are, shall we say ... losing it. |
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Oct 19, 2009 In last week's "balloon boy" story, "It has be determined that this is a hoax." |
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Oct 19, 2009 Energy drinks are a six-billion-dollar business. According to a study published in the prestigious "Annals of Emergency Medicine," so-called energy drinks compared to soda have no significant effect on performance or dexterity. |
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Oct 19, 2009 In most cases the swine flu symptoms are not substantially different from regular seasonal flu. But in some people, says Pulmonary Specialist Dr. Jonathan Whiteson of NYU, the H1N1 virus can make them very sick indeed within a frighteningly short time. |
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Oct 19, 2009 President Obama is saying he won't insist on a public option to drive down premium costs, although that would be his preference, and the White House is lobbying for that. |
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