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Poll: Will Health Care Reform Pass This Week End

The house is expected to vote on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) This week end. Have you read the bill and called your congress person?

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Public school nurses give swine flu vaccine to kids without parents' OK, sends child to hospital

School nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn't sign up for it - including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital.

'Into the Blast' - On the Hunt for D.B. Cooper

If you're lucky in this business, some assignments are custom-made for you. Such was the case when Skipp Porteous, the head of Sherlock Investigations in New York City, asked me to help out with his probe into the 'D.B. Cooper' case.

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Re-despertar. (poem)

Como de una hibernacion, Totalmente una liberacion, Historias de passion y seducciones, Effectuadas sin presiones. Culminacion inesperada, Libertad atrapada, Sentimientos profundos desambilicados, Suenos y planes rapidos cancelados.

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Right-Wing Media Respond To Fort Hood Shooting By Attacking Muslims

Right-wing media figures have used the shooting at Fort Hood as an excuse to attack Islam and American Muslims in particular, with Debbie Schlussel, for example, urging readers to think of the alleged shooter "whenever you hear about how Muslims serve their country in the U.S.

Alleged Ft. Hood Killer Linked To Obama: Nidal Was Homeland Security Adviser To Obama Transition Team

This is a link to the PDF file put out by the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute that identifies Nidal as one of the contributors to the report that was delivered to the Obama presidential transition team.

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Ft. Hood Shooter: Officials Begin Putting Shooting Pieces Together

"I want to add something else about Hasan at Walter Reed.

Obama takes heat for skipping Berlin wall anniversary

"Some consider President Obama's refusal to attend the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany next week an outrage, I consider it a tragedy." Gingrich wrote.

Dark Red Spot Found on Kuiper Belt Object Haumae

Unlike all other large Kuiper Belt Objects, which are covered in methane ice and so slightly red in colour, Haumea and its two moons are covered in water ice, giving them a blue tinge. Moreover, Haumea is much denser than water and so must have a rich rocky core.