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Is Any Illness Covered by Insurance?

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - It’s in the interest of insurance companies to exclude people who are sick, while it’s in our national interest to see them covered. Plus, it’s the right thing to do.

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Ending the Internet’s Trench Warfare

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Yochai Benkler - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - IMAGINE that for $33 a month you could buy Internet service twice as fast as what you get from Verizon or Comcast, bundled with digital high-definition television, unlimited long distance and international calling to 70 countries and wireless Internet connectivity for your laptop or smartphone throughout much of the country.

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Chinese Academics’ Paper on Cyberwar Sets Off Alarms in U.S.

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John Markoff, David Barboza - Mar. 21 (Special Report) - A paper imagining a cyberattack and a power failure in the U.S. has highlighted an atmosphere charged with hostility between the U.S. and China over cybersecurity.

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Proposed Changes in the Final Health Care Bill

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Farhana Hossain - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - To avoid the threat of a filibuster by Senate Republicans, Democratic leaders are planning to pass health care overhaul in a three-step process. Under this plan, the House would pass the health bill approved in December by the Senate, and both chambers would approve a separate package of changes in a budget reconciliation measure, which could be adopted by a simple majority. A look at key provisions of the Senate bill and the changes proposed in the reconciliation bill unveiled Thursday.

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Historic win or not, Democrats could pay a price

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dan Balz - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - As the final round of the battle over health-care reform begins Sunday, President Obama and the Democrats are in reach of a historic legislative achievement that has eluded presidents dating back a century. The question is at what cost.

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Eraser Duty for Bart?

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - Nuns’ support for the health care bill has been dismissed, largely because the bishops and the pope would rather deprive people of good care than look soft on abortion.

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Is health-care reform constitutional?

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Randy E. Barnett - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - With the House set to vote on health-care legislation, the congressional debate on the issue seems to be nearing its conclusion. But if the bill does become law, the battle over federal control of health care will inevitably shift to the courts...Will these cases get anywhere? Here is a guide to the possible legal challenges to a comprehensive health-care bill.

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House Democrats seeking executive order on abortion funding

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Lori Montgomery, Paul Kane, Ben Pershing - Mar. 21 (News Report) - House Democrats are working with the White House to craft an executive order that would clarify President Obama’s intention to maintain a long-standing ban on federal funding of abortion, congressional Democrats said.

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The Acorn Sting Revisited

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Clark Hoyt - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - Acorn supporters say The Times got a story about a sting wrong. Did it?

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Democrats Predict Slim Margin in Health Vote Sunday

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David M. Herszenhorn, Robert Pear - Mar. 21 (News Report) - With the stage set for a historic showdown over landmark health legislation in the House on Sunday afternoon, the White House and Democratic Congressional leaders narrowed their hunt for votes to a slim list of lawmakers, including several opponents of abortion who were demanding assurance that no federal money would be used to pay for insurance coverage of the procedure.

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Tactics, Luck and Perseverance Kept Health Bill Alive

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Jeff Zeleny, Carl Hulse - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - That President Obama has come within a whisper of passing historic social legislation is remarkable in itself. But the story of how he did it is not his alone.

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Two presidents, two recessions

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Jim Puzzanghera - Mar. 21 (Special Report) - Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama both took office facing economic crisis. Many lessons from the '80s no longer apply, though a strong display of optimism is never unwelcome.

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Corner Office: Guy Kawasaki: I Want 5 Sentences, Not ‘War and Peace’

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Adam Bryant - Mar. 21 (Interview) - Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of the Alltop news aggregation site, says business schools need to teach students how to communicate more concisely.

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'Tea party' protesters accused of spitting on lawmaker, using slurs

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Paul Kane - Mar. 21 (News Report) - Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said that racial epithets were hurled at them Saturday by angry protesters who had gathered at the Capitol to protest health-care legislation, and one congressman said he was spit upon. The most high-profile openly gay congressman, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), was heckled with anti-gay chants.

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Professor brings clean power to African villages

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By James F. Smith - Mar. 21 (Special Report) - Where nightfall once meant only darkness in the tiny Tanzanian island of Tumbatu, now there are 200 points of light.

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Plastic surgery in decline in America

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Paul Harris - Mar. 21 (News Report) - Americans appear to be finally falling out of love with cosmetic surgery after a new report revealed that the number of operations dropped by 18% last year.

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Make way, world. India is on the move.

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Bill Bonner - Mar. 21 (News Report) - Despite its poverty, India is growing at 7 percent a year. Hourly wages double every decade. ...

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A little secret about Obama's transparency

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - Mar. 21 (Editorial) - A little secret about Obama's transparency

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Nuns Back Bill Amid Broad Rift Over Whether It Limits Abortion Enough

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Helene Cooper - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - A divide over how tightly to restrict federal subsidies for insurance policies that cover abortion was proving central to the health care debate.

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The 20 House Democrats who will decide the fate of the healthcare reform bill

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Hill - By Bob Cusack - Mar. 20 (News Report) - With a historic vote one day away, a small group of undecided Democrats in the House will decide the fate of healthcare reform. Read more...

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Iraqis Gather to Watch Hollywood’s Take on a War That Has Enveloped Their Lives

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tim Arango - Mar. 20 - For those who gathered to view “The Hurt Locker,” to watch the film was to relive a recent chapter of their lives.

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I'm not the messiah, says food activist – but his many worshippers do not believe him

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Bobbie Johnson - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - Members of religious group believe London-born author has come to save the world The trouble started when Raj Patel appeared on American TV to plug his latest book, an analysis of the financial crisis called The Value of Nothing. The London-born author, 37, thought his slot on comedy talkshow The Colbert Report went well enough: the host made a few jokes, Patel talked a little about his work and then, job done, he went back to his home in San Francisco. Shortly afterwards, however, things took a strange turn. Over the course of a couple of days, cryptic messages started filling his inbox. "I started getting emails saying ?have you heard of Benjamin Creme?? and ?are you the world teacher??" he said. "Then all of a sudden it wasn?t just ...

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Iraq and Afghanistan: America's invisible wars

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Mar. 20 - After seven years in Iraq and nine in Afghanistan, residents of York, Pa., talk about how the wars have become like a screen saver: always there but rarely acknowledged. ...

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Experiment implodes: Jeremy Tyler quits Israeli basketball team

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Mar. 20 (News) - The Jeremy Tyler experiment is over. Jeremy Tyler, former US high school hoops star, leaves Israel. ...

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Immigrant rights advocates reach out to African Americans

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Krissah Thompson - Mar. 20 - Immigrant rights advocates reach out to African Americans

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