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Oprah Winfrey has blessed the book world's eternal underdog: the short story.
For close to a year, diplomats say, a report on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons experiments has been sitting in a drawer of a U.N. nuclear monitoring agency, with access limited to only a few top officials.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is two steps further away from filling the ranks of his senior staff.
It's one of medicine's uncomfortable truths: That blood test for prostate cancer is far from perfect. Would as many men take a PSA test if they knew?
The critics have spoken, and "Slumdog Millionaire" is their final answer.
Not as barbaric as Marion Barber, not the breakaway threat of Felix Jones, Tashard Choice was merely the "other" running back for the Dallas Cowboys this season.
Churches in the nation's capital have started extending invitations to President-elect Barack Obama and his family, touting their African-American roots, their ties to presidents past and to Obama himself.
His name was invoked at church services nationwide on Sunday, but President-elect Obama didn't attend any of them. He went to the gym instead.
With two months left, the presidential election seems likely to turn on whether Barack Obama can make himself sufficiently acceptable to millions of disgruntled Americans eager to toss Republicans from the White House if they see a safe, competent alternative.
"Gossip Girl" has six more reasons to say OMG. And so do the Jonas Brothers.
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" dominated the seventh annual Teen Choice Awards, taking honors for Choice Movie: Action Adventure. Stars Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Bill Nighy also took home awards.
Sports fans everywhere want to know: "Why do I have to subscribe to the soap opera channel when all I really want is ESPN?"
He was 14 when the girl entered his grass-covered hut and placed a plate of steaming fish in front of him. Like all men on this African isle, Carvadju Jose Nananghe knew exactly what it meant. Refusing was not an option. His heart pounding, he lifted the aromatic dish, prepared with an ancient recipe, to his lips, agreeing in one bite to marry the girl.
The hospital lobby is a blur of surgical scrubs as a shift-change approaches. But when Elmer Jacinto slips in early in pressed whites and sneakers, he draws barely a glance from the guard behind the security desk.
For an extra $15, Northwest Airlines Corp. will sell coach passengers a few more inches of legroom.
Capping Corporate CEO PayThe SEC and all of our corporation's shareholders have to establish a set of guidelines for Company Executive Pay. Today, CEOs are being overly compensated and in too many cases are rewarded by keeping their corporate payroll to a minimum.
Breast cancer group called a "menace to women"As Eleanor Bader reports at RHRealityCheck, anti-choice forces have boycotted of Susan G. Komen's Race for the Cure (SKG), the largest breast cancer charity in the world and the leader in the fight against the disease.
Billionaires Thank Tea-Baggers at Glenn Beck's March on Washington"On Saturday 9/12, tens of thousands of conservative activists marched in Washington in opposition to big government and the Obama health care plan.
Strong Public Option Will Pass by Christmas"Mark my word — I'm the chairman — it's going to have a strong public option," said Harkin, who last week replaced the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) as chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee.
After every trace of abortion removed from health care reform...now they go after birth control!Our party has made it clear to the religious right that there will be NO payments for abortion in ANY plan for health care reform. Gee, you would think that would satisfy them.
A Method to Their Madness "............progressives could be forgiven for branding the right as stupid and crazy. But they would also be wrong. For if this is madness, there is great method in it. It is well organized and well funded.
Poll: Support for Public Option Grows"Among those who watched, 60 percent say they mostly agree with the health care plans the president presented; 33 percent mostly disagree. " "After the speech, 52 percent say they approve of how the president is handling health care, up from 40 percent last week. "
Tensions remain after Wilson apologyRepublicans still clinging to an outright lie: "While Wilson offered some contrition over what he called a "spontaneous" exclamation, Wilson said he stood by the substance of his criticism of Obama's health plan.
How We Will Replace Those Lost Automobile Manufacturing Jobs In Missouri & Be Prosperous Again!In order for America to have another "American Century" that is more prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable we must start using more of America's Natural Resources and stop our reliance on Oil and O.P.E.C..
At a most fundamental level, our computers are simple and not smart at all. They can only do one, solid thing; make a determination as to whether something is true or false. That's all a computer has ever been able to do.
Cheap breathalysers inaccurate, says ChoiceThe consumer group Choice says many lower-priced breathalysers have been found to be unreliable.
Having School Choice Is The Best Way For Our ChildrenBecause of failing schools like we have seen in Kansas City and other areas it is evident that our education system has to change. We also need to make everyone more accountable for a better education system (School Officials & Teachers, Parents, and Students).
Abortion battle joined again outside Nebraska clinic: Dr LeRoy Carhart takes up Tiller mission to keep late-term abortions availableThis article is three pages long. If you prefer to view it on one page, with fewer graphics, click here. At the end of a day of performing one abortion after the next after the next, LeRoy Carhart phrases the question himself.
Opposing groups protest outside abortion doctor's clinicOperation Rescue drove in two of their so-called Truth Trucks, delivery trucks with giant billboards of dismembered fetuses on the sides. The vehicles parked in a designated area outside the clinic to gasps from the women's rights groups.
'Non-GMO' Seal Identifies Foods Mostly Biotech-FreeAlarmed that genetically engineered crops may be finding their way into organic and natural foods, an industry group has begun a campaign to test products and label those that are largely free of biotech ingredients.
Warning: Liberals Will Go Insane Over This PostWe are human beings - we are not slaves to the flesh unless we choose to be so. Just as some men - with the normal inclination towards attraction to females - can eschew sex completely so other men can choose to change from attraction to men to attraction to women.
What is an election for? Does it make a difference who wins? All we do is pick the party, the candidate, that caves to bankers, wall street, and corporations.
The Health Insurance Racket Is Manufacturing Entertainment Value from Pulling the Plug on Grandma"Unfortunately, the people have been mesmerized by our theater state's purposefully distracting and dramatic media productions for so long that they've been mutated toward helplessness.
How Much Do Protests Matter? A Freakonomics Quorum"Surely speaking up when our upbringing encourages being polite can be the most courageous form of dissent.
Most people don't have the time to investigate every line of the health insurance reform bills currently in the Congress. But health insurers do.
New Report: Arkansas Small Businesses Support Health Care Reform, Public OptionArkansas small business owners want real health reform, are willing to contribute, and want a choice between private insurance and a public health insurance plan.
Right-Wing Turncoat Gives the Inside Scoop on Why Conservatives Are Rampaging Town Halls"Having failed at the ballot box, having watched their Fox News-organized "tea parties" fizzle the intimidation tactics which the Republicans have embraced are being used in a well-financed, top-down orchestrated fake grass roots campaign by corporate interests to try and protect …
Church usher says he saw Roeder put gun to Tiller's head | McClatchyThis is a fairly descriptive account of Dr. George Tiller's cold blooded murder. Point blank, gun to the head execution style... that's raw and cold. I don't want to hear "oh tiller is a murder bla bla bla, he's not a murderer and if you use that term your incorrect.
Officeworks axes cashback offersOfficeworks is taking a stand against cashback offers, refusing to run them in its stores following significant criticisms of the schemes by Australian consumers and regulators.
An Abortion Battle, Fought to the DeathIt did not take long for anti-abortion leaders to realize that George R. Tiller was more formidable than other doctors they had tried to shut down.
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