Health bill nears debate after positive CBO review

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:48 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

Congressional budget crunchers said Thurday the Democrats' latest health care plan would hold down federal red ink for at least 20 years, an assessment that gave supporters hope as the Senate moved gingerly toward a historic debate.

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UC regents approve 32 percent student fee increase

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:22 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

As hundreds of students demonstrated outside, University of California leaders on Thursday voted to approve a 32 percent hike in undergraduate fees, arguing the increase is crucial because of the state's budget crisis.

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U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:04 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.

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Wired Science News for Your Neurons Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists

Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:16 AM EST (Wired News)

Wired Science News for Your Neurons Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists * By Brandon Keim Email Author * November 16, 2009 | * 3:00 pm | * Categories: Animals, Biology * darwinfinches2 finches2

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A Stimulus Success: Build America Bonds Are Working

Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:28 PM EST (TIME)

When Congress wrote the Build America Bond program into February's $787 billion economic-stimulus bill, many predicted a flop.

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Price Disparities Common In Health Care System

Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:29 AM EST (National Public Radio)

Prices for identical goods and services are usually the same or very close at competing businesses. That's not the case when it comes to health care — not by a long shot. For example, in Pensacola, Fla., there are huge price disparities for MRI tests.

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Will the Stupak Amendment Force Women Who've Miscarried to Lose Insurance Coverage?

Seeded on Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:03 PM EST (t r u t h o u t)

This weekend, a group of male pro-life Democrats gambled with women's health, and women lost.

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Provision in Health Care Bill Governing Prayer Treatments May Be Unconstitutional

Seeded on Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:55 PM EST (t r u t h o u t)

The debate over the health care bill has reached a new level - a spiritual level - with a provision in the health care legislation requiring the consideration of prayer treatments as medical expenses brought to light.

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Productivity gains may be bad news for job seekers

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 4:18 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

Companies across the economy are finding ways to do more with fewer workers, dimming hopes that hiring will take off anytime soon.

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Ancient Civilization Cut Path to Demise

Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 7:45 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

The ancient South American Nasca civilization may have caused its own demise by clear-cutting huge swaths of forest, a new study has found.

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Is There a 'Bad Driver' Gene?

Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:22 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Are you a bad driver? Maybe you can blame it on your genes.

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Let Kids Sleep Late on Weekends to Fight Fat: Study

Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:17 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Letting children sleep late on weekends and holidays might help them avoid becoming overweight or obese, a new study suggests.

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Numbers, not shouting, overwhelm health care debate

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:13 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

But the facts scream louder than even the angriest protester – and the data tells us the current system could literally destroy our way of life. Consider these statistics:

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Defending domestic partnership

Seeded on Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:32 PM EDT (The Columbian)

Claire Fulenwider and Harriet Forman found their Vancouver dream house tucked into a forested bower in West Minnehaha one year ago.

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Unclean Energy

Seeded on Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:11 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

The cult of secrecy is decided inscribed in the genes of the nuclear industry. Certainly, much progress has been accomplished in that domain under militant and democratic pressure.

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FACT CHECK: Health insurers cherry-pick facts

Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:11 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

In its assaults on a Democratic health care overhaul bill, the insurance industry uses facts selectively and mixes accurate assertions with misleading spin and an embrace of worst-case scenarios.

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One Soldier Dies; Another Soldier's Mother Prays

Seeded on Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:31 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Whenever she reads an online notice that another American has died in Iraq or Afghanistan, Donna Faye Caudill posts the same response: "Praying for the soldier's family."

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Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership

Seeded on Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:58 PM EDT (Politico)

In Florida, where the national party has signaled its preference for centrist Gov.

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U.S. recession over, unemployment seen at 10 percent

Seeded on Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:54 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

The worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression has ended, but weak household spending as the labor market struggles to create jobs will slow the pace of the economy's recovery, according to a survey released on Monday.

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Insurers face blowback after report

Seeded on Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:51 PM EDT (Politico)

In the health care reform debate, where playing nice has been the rule, a scathing insurance industry report looked to critics Monday like a grenade aimed at scuttling progress in Congress. But it also looked to some like too little, too late.

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Calif governor signs gay marriage recognition bill

Seeded on Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:46 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill recognizing gay marriages sanctioned in other states during the nearly five months such unions were legal in California.

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Left claims 218 in sight for 'robust' public plan

Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 7:29 PM EDT (The Hill)

Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), the leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told a closed-door caucus meeting that the group's "whip count" showed it had 208 of the 218 votes needed to pass what liberals call a "robust" public option.

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Women more likely to be expelled under 'don't ask'

Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 7:06 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Pentagon statistics obtained by University of California researchers show that women are far more likely than men to be kicked out of the military under the "don't ask, don't tell policy" banning openly gay servicemembers.

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How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect

Seeded on Tue Oct 6, 2009 6:19 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Researchers have long known that people cling to their personal biases more tightly when feeling threatened. After thinking about their own inevitable death, they become more patriotic, more religious and less tolerant of outsiders, studies find.

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Dad's Life or Yours? You Choose

Seeded on Sun Oct 4, 2009 6:18 PM EDT (The New York Times)

So what would you do if your mom or dad, or perhaps your sister or brother, needed a kidney donation and you were the one best positioned to donate?

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