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The Struggle Over Health Care

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

Two MS Pills Show Promise

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…

Haiti to relocate 400,000 homeless outside capital

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

Student loan demand at record high

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

U.S. airlines top expectations as demand improves

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

Space review panel says moon, Mars out of reach

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

IBM uses DNA to make next-gen microchips

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

Facebook to face off with new Web rivals

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

Top 5 and 5 to watch: Las Vegas

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

Jobless ex-con asks for more prison time

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

Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web

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

Disgruntled 8-year-old boy crashes teacher’s car

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