January 21st, 2010
Summary: With Senate passage of health care legislation, lawmakers in both houses of Congress now face the challenge of reconciling two different bills.
Democratic leaders in the House have vowed to change the Senate bill. However, their Senate colleagues must hold their 60-vote margin if a reconciled bill is to pass and hand President Obama a major victory. Republicans continue to voice fierce opposition to the bill.click here to learn more
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January 21st, 2010
By JEANNE WHALEN
Two experimental pills for multiple sclerosis proved effective in clinical trials, raising the possibility for the first time that oral treatments might become available alongside the more cumbersome injections and infusions used to treat MS today. click here to learn more…
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January 21st, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti’s government plans to relocate some 400,000 homeless survivors of last week’s earthquake to new villages to be set up outside the wrecked capital, Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said on Thursday.click here for full feature
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January 21st, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As lenders continue to curtail access to mortgages, credit cards and other types of loans, one area of the credit market is rapidly expanding: student loans.click here to view full story
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January 21st, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Continental Airlines and Southwest Airlines results topped Wall Street estimates as more people booked flights and ticket prices rose, but the airlines said the path to recovery would be rough.click here for full feature
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August 17th, 2009
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 will not happen without a big boost in NASA’s budget, leaving only the International Space Station as a viable target for the country’s human space program, according to a presidential review panel.click here to read full feature
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August 17th, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp is looking to the building blocks of our bodies — DNA — to be the structure of next-generation microchips.click here to read more
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August 17th, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook’s vision of becoming a “utility” that offers activities to keep people online for hours could set it on a collision course with the Web’s giants.click here to read full feature
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February 26th, 2009
By Bill Marx
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
Here’s a look at the top five in points and five drivers to watch in Sunday’s Shelby 427. All statistical references are for Sprint Cup races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway unless otherwise indicated. Driver rating is based on the past four races at the track.click here to read more
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February 26th, 2009
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A jobless Taiwan man released from prison two years ago asked police to send him back so he could eat, police and local media said Tuesday, a grim sign of hard economic times on the island.click here for full story
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December 1st, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook, the Internet’s largest social network, wants to let you take your friends with you as you travel the Web. But having been burned by privacy concerns in the last year, it plans to keep close tabs on those outings.click here for full story
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December 1st, 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - An eight-year-old German schoolboy who wanted to complain to his mother about being sent out of class took his teacher’s car and crashed it, police said.click here to read full feature
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