Mar 10, 2010Bill Gates wants money from Congress
The multi-billionaire testifies on behalf of global health spending, saying vaccines, drugs and innovative approaches are saving millions of lives. It's a cause that's not well understood, he says, and not very well covered.
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Mar 15, 2010 Racial Disparities in Sentencing Rise After Guidelines Loosened
Washington - Black and Hispanic men are more likely to receive longer prison sentences than their white counterparts since the Supreme Court loosened federal sentencing rules, a government study has concluded.
The study by the U.S. Sentencing Commission reignited a long-running debate about...
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Mar 14, 2010New Agency Puts Clean Energy on Front Burner
While Arunava Majumdar says America urgently needs to come up with clean-energy “game changers,” until now there hasn’t been a systematic approach to develop them.
The job of developing really big clean-energy initiatives is perhaps beyond the capacity of the private sector....
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RealClearPolitics
Mar 14, 2010Gibbs: 'This is the Week'
Matt DeLong, Washington PostWhite House press secretary Robert Gibbs proclaimed on CBS' "Face the Nation" that "this is the week" that the House of Representatives will pass the Senate's health-care reform bill and send it to President Obama's...
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Mar 14, 2010Tiff or Tipping Point?
by Jim LobeWASHINGTON -
"Condemn" is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S.
politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however
objectionable, by Israel.read more
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Mar 14, 2010Children of Gaza: Scarred, Trapped, Vengeful
by Rachel ShieldsOmsyatte adjusts her green school uniform and
climbs gingerly on to a desk at the front of the classroom. The shy
12-year-old holds up a brightly coloured picture and begins to explain
to her classmates what she has drawn. It is a scene played out in
schools all over the...
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AllHeadlineNews.com
Mar 15, 2010All Headline News - Breaking News
The latest top breaking news, U.S., world, business, politics, entertainment, celebrities, sports, technology, and more.
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Mar 15, 2010How Reagan's Propaganda Succeeded
New documents from Ronald Reagan's Library show how the Republican propaganda apparatus took root, reports Robert Parry. March 8, 2010
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Mar 15, 2010Did US Coddle an Anti-Iranian Terrorist?
Iranians welcomed the capture of a reputed Sunni terrorist, but suspicions remain about a US tie, say Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. March 7, 2010
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NiemanWatchdog.org
Mar 10, 2010Bill Gates wants money from Congress
The multi-billionaire testifies on behalf of global health spending, saying vaccines, drugs and innovative approaches are saving millions of lives. It's a cause that's not well understood, he says, and not very well covered.
NiemanWatchdog.orgmore
Mar 10, 2010QDR, the Pentagon's kabuki dance with Congress
QDR stands for Quadrennial Defense Review. It could also stand for Quite Disappointing Report. ‘Rebalance' is said to be a goal but military analyst George Wilson has heard that kind of euphemism before.
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The American Prospect
Mar 15, 2010How Biden Could Fix the Senate
If Biden is willing to exercise the power granted him in the constitution, he could do more than pass health care. He undo the filibuster rules that threaten to deadlock our system of government.
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Mar 15, 2010Unintended Precedents
A Supreme Court ruling in a terrorism case is making it harder for many other important lawsuits to proceed.
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Mar 15, 2010A New Southern Strategy
Can a politician who began his career as an Obama organizer
make a lasting change in South Carolina politics?
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