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Missing the Gain But Joining the Pain

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Sam Kornell - Nov. 15 (News Analysis) - Since the industrial revolution, profits from the exploitation of fossil energy — coal, oil and natural gas — have not been equally distributed. America, Europe and Japan got rich off of oil and coal; now China, India and much of the rest of the developing world are attempting to do the same thing. If they succeed, climate scientists say, it will mean environmental catastrophe. This progression has created a situation in which any solution to climate change is, to a greater or lesser extent, going to be unfair — a fact many negotiators openly acknowledge. The Danish environmental minister hosting the Copenhagen conference, Connie Hedegaard, has reportedly been "extraordinarily blunt" in insisting that China, India and the rest of the developing world shoulder a large share of the climate load.

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I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - Even among the most extreme opponents of President Obama's push for health care reform — those who equate his proposals to Nazi death camps or Soviet gulags — there's little overtly expressed racism. Aside from the occasional slip by Republican officials in South Carolina,...But implicit racism — prejudice unacknowledged in public and, in many cases, hidden from conscious awareness — is a factor in opposition to Obama's health policies

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Virginia Tech Study Contains Lessons for Fort Hood

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 12 (News Analysis) - The 2007 Virginia Tech massacre resulted in widespread psychological distress among the university's students — whether or not they witnessed the incident firsthand.

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The Edwards Effect?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Erik Hayden - Nov. 12 (News Report) - Life-threatening illnesses can disrupt even the most stable marriages, but new research suggests that men are far more likely to divorce a terminally ill spouse. Last year's tabloid revelation that presidential contender John Edwards had been caught in

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Does Biased News Have a 'Time Bomb' Effect?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Nov. 09 (Special Report) - There's nobody more cynical about the media than your average European. Only 12 percent of Europeans claim to trust the media, compared to 15 percent of North Americans, 29 percent of Pacific Asians and 48 percent of Africans, the BBC has found. Yet new research out of the London School of Economics and Political Science suggests that even the most hardened Europeans may succumb to media manipulation and change their political views if they are bombarded long enough with biased news. Michael Bruter, a senior lecturer in European politics at the school, fed a steady diet of slanted newsletters about Europe and the European Union — either all good news or all bad — to 1,200 citizens of six countries over two years. Over time, Bruter found, and without exception, the readers subconsciously adopted the bias to varying degrees and changed their view of the EU and of themselves as Europeans, a few of them in the extreme. Surprisingly, they didn't register any change right after the newsletters stopped — not until full six months later, when they had obviously let down their guard.

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Many Still Believe That Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/11, and Now We Have Some Idea Why

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Emily Badger - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - Of 49 people included in the study who believed in such a connection, only one shed the certainty when presented with prevailing evidence that it wasn't true. The rest came up with an array of justifications for ignoring, discounting or simply disagreeing with contrary evidence — even when it came from President Bush himself.

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The Biggest Roadblock to Change May Be in Our Minds

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - When you step back from the specifics of the health care debate — as well as the rancor surrounding it — an odd contradiction emerges. Fairly or not, insurance companies have traditionally been regarded with a combination of contempt and scorn. Yet the president's proposal to change the nation's system of health care coverage — which would put restrictions on some of the companies' more egregious practices and provide increased competition — has provoked fear and outrage in a sizable portion of the populace. Americans who under other circumstances might be grousing about rising premiums or denials of coverage are tenaciously clinging to a system they know and dislike.

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A Victory for the 'Water Underground'

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:44:03 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Oct. 13 - Bone-dry California eases restrictions on greywater use, allowing wastewater from washing machines and bathtubs to spill onto the state's lawn and lemon trees.

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Fostering Abortion With Soviet Gusto

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:43:01 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Oct. 07 - One way America resembles the old Communist bloc can be found in the nexus of abortion and public health care.

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What Really Happened in Rwanda?

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Christian Davenport/Allan C. Stam - Oct. 06 (Special Report) - Researchers Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan government — needs to come out.

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Building an American Insurance Bazaar

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 30 (Opinion) - Normally I'm proud of American exceptionalism. But the reason for the mess in American health coverage has nothing to do with any maverick individualist tradition. Americans have inherited a largely accidental system of employer-based insurance that started during lean times in World War II. Wage freezes imposed by the government led employers to offer benefits instead of higher salaries. The slow institutionalization of this system is the reason Americans can't carry their benefits from job to job or into self-employment; and it's one reason we can't think clearly about new ways to pay for health care.

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Are America's Winds Slowing?

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Haederle - Sep. 29 (Special Report) - Wind speeds, expected to help propel the advance of renewable energy, may be slowing, a cautious new study suggests. Then again, they may be blowing even harder.

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Solar Power Helps Squeeze Last Drops from Old Oil Wells

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By John Perlin - Sep. 19 (Special Report) - Last month, the oil and solar industry joined hands in an oil field about a century off its prime that Chevron owns in Coalinga, Calif., where steam is required to sufficiently thin what oil remains so it can be extracted. The oil company signed a deal with Bright Source Energy to build a demonstration project: Thousands of flat mirrors will reflect concentrated sunlight on a boiler atop a tower, superheating the water to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit to produce high-pressure steam.

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Doctors With Borders Licensed for U.S. Practice |

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Frank Nelson - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - After spending seven years studying to become a doctor in her native Mexico, Nidia Payan found herself having to sell tamales to make ends meet when she first arrived in Los Angeles. Later, just to be considered for a part-time job as a medical assistant, she had to start as a volunteer.

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Triaging the Train Wreck of Climate Change

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Brian Helmuth - Sep. 08 (Special Report) - Like many scientists, I didn't start out studying climate change; it more or less became a fact of life when the organisms I was studying started to die...I have been fortunate to travel to many sites around the globe, ranging from the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean to the crashing surf along the Pacific coast of North America, and what I see matches the observations made by what now is an army of scientists: The Earth's flora and fauna are changing — shifting their geographic locations, altering when they reproduce or dying wholesale — as a result of human-induced global warming.

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Charting Where U.S. Health Proposals Fall on Private/Public Scale

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 02 (Special Report) - Hot on socialized medicine or cool with private payer, take the temperature of your favorite U.S. healthcare option with our handy-dandy Miller-McCune meter.

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Karl Marx and American Health Care

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Aug. 11 (Special Report) - Germany — where Marx was born — has a health care system that roughly resembles the plan Congress and President Obama have set out to forge. But insurance companies haven't been driven out of business. In fact, they thrive here because of a law that says every German must be insured, and there are a number of "public" options to choose from.

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Despite 'Bleakest' Year, Journalism Report Sees Some Promise

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Tom Price - Jul. 09 (Special Report) - This is the first of two articles examining the Project for Excellence in Journalism's latest annual examination of the news media in the United States.

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Germany Offers Model of Energy Self-Sufficiency

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Jul. 08 (Special Report) - Biomass-powered villages in Germany's heartland may offer a model for U.S. towns questing for energy self-sufficiency

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Freeze! You're Under Examination

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Bernice Yeung - Jun. 30 (Special Report) - Making sure people get health care when they leave prison saves taxpayer money and protects public health. It may even help them stay out of prison.

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Racism's Hidden Toll

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Ryan Blitstein - Jun. 15 (Special Report) - Does the stress of living in a white-dominated society make African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts? Apparently, yes.

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Sotomayor Debate Puts Life Experiences on the Stand

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Jun. 11 (Special Report) - From the 1880s until about 2000, said Harvard law professor and Supreme Court historian Mark Tushnet, the idea that a judge's background would influence how he or she approached cases — and that this was desirable — was conventional wisdom. The court for years even followed a kind of enforced diversity, drawing justices from the geographic regions that captured some of the country's biggest disagreements, with plantation owners in the South, industrialists in the Northeast and ranchers to the West.

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Study: Gay Men, But Not Women, Do Better at College

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Jun. 03 (Special Report) - Gay male college students are more motivated to learn and more likely to be mentored than their straight counterparts, and their above-average grades suggest this kind of engagement makes a real difference.

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Legal Immigrants Hope to See DREAM Act Extended to Cover Them, Too

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Lindsey McCormack - May. 29 (Special Report) - His father, a computer programmer, applied for a green card as soon as he could file the paperwork. Bhaskar would have benefited from that petition, but at 21, he was hit by a provision called "aging out" — a consequence of a visa processing backlog that affects thousands of aspiring Americans a year. He continues to live in the United States on a student visa, but Bhaskar may be legally obligated to leave after he graduates from business school next year.

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Political Ad Campaigns For and Against Supreme Court Nominees Hurt the Institution and the Country.

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By James L. Gibson - May. 26 (Special Report) - Hyperbolic attack ads from advocacy groups have diminished the popular esteem of the U.S. Supreme Court in the past, so as the campaign to replace David Souter heats up, a little restraint is in order.

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