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10 hrs ago | The Peninsula

Wal-Mart's reverse course of health care

Whatever the company's motive, retail behemoth Wal-Mart Stores Inc. made health-care reform significantly more likely last week by throwing its weight behind a requirement that all employers provide health coverage.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Healthcare Law, Law, Business News

19 hrs ago | TheDay.Com - Top Stories

DUI Defense Attorney Seeks Fairness, Lasting Change

Editor's Note: After a series of drunken driving fatalities in the region, The Day is running an occasional series on the issue.Attorney Ronald F. Stevens takes on some of the toughest cases that come through the criminal court system when he represents people charged with killing someone while driving drunk.

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Related Topix: Boston College, East Lyme, CT, Niantic, CT, Train Disaster

Yesterday | The Ledger

Safety Net Is Fraying for the Very Poor

Government "safety net" programs like Social Security and food stamps have pulled growing numbers of Americans out of poverty since the mid-1990s. But even before the current recession, these programs were providing less help to the most desperately poor, mainly nonworking families with children, according to a new study by the Center on Budget and ...

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Social Security

Sat Jul 04, 2009

New York Times

Environment Groups Find Less Support From Justices

The Supreme Court heard five environmental law cases in the term that ended Monday, and environmental groups lost every time.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, US Military, US Navy, Samuel Alito

Fri Jul 03, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Sheehy names Matter to media buying post

Megan Matter Company: Sheehy+Associates Title: Associate media buyer Industry: Marketing/PR Previous: Media assistant Find me online at: www.sheehy1.com The latest: Matter was promoted to associate media buyer.

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Related Topix: Public Relations, Marketing, Louisville, KY, University of Louisville, Environmental Law, Law

Drugs.com

Odd Behaviors on Ambien Linked to Brain Circuitry

New information about brain circuit activity may help explain why some people who take the sleep aid Ambien walk, eat, talk on the phone and even drive while not fully awake -- and without remembering it the next morning.

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Related Topix: Ambien, Zolpidem (generic), Medicine, Medication

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Salem-News.com

Almost 50 U.S. Casualties in Iraq And Afghanistan Reported in June

They bring the total reported in June to 48, according to our numbers. Main photo courtesy: Georgetown University Soldier photos: MySpace, U.S. government - There has been little reprieve for American combat forces fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military, US Army, Iraq, World News, Wilmington, NC

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Wausau Daily Herald

Jesse Burish ordained in face of waning priest numbers

Wausau resident Jesse Burish, a member of St. Matthew's Catholic Church, will be ordained to the priesthood today at the Cathedral of St.

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Related Topix: Wausau, WI, Wausau Metro, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Milwaukee, WI

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Reuters

Study in mice sheds light on Ambien side effects

A new study in mice may help explain some of the rare but strange side effects in people taking the sleep drug Ambien, including sleep walking, midnight binges and even driving while not fully awake.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Ambien, Zolpidem (generic), Medication, Health

Sun Jun 28, 2009

Jerusalem Post

US professors: Support for Israel eroded

Unwavering support for Israeli policy has eroded dramatically both on American college campuses and within the United States as a whole, according to a group of American university professors who on Sunday concluded an academic exchange program here, sponsored by the Yitzhak Rabin Center.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Calgary Sun

Iran demands cautious approach

My old friend and Georgetown University Foreign Service School classmate, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, was executed in Tehran after a failed attempt to overthrow Iran's Islamic Republic in 1982.

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Related Topix: Travel, Iran Travel, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Opinion

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Oregonian

'Thriller' of an icon projected African Americans to world

Michael Jackson fans attend a vigil in Buenos Aires on Friday, reflecting the singer's worldwide popularity.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, African-American, Gary Metro, Opinion

Fri Jun 26, 2009

The Nation

The Beat: Michael Jackson: Imperfect Icon Who Became Face of America

But Michael Jackson touched almost all of them. The music star's death Thursday , at age 50 after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest is an international event.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, African-American, Gary, IN, Gary Metro

Indiana Law Blog

Environment - 'A Rough Term in Supreme Court for Environmentalists Draws to a Close'

Friday, June 26, 2009 Environment - "A Rough Term in Supreme Court for Environmentalists Draws to a Close" Jennifer Koons reports today in the NY Times in a story that begins: Environmental interests were trounced in the 2009 Supreme Court term that ends Monday.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Criminal Defense Law

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Coshocton Tribune

Who are we as Americans?

President Obama, in his May 21 speech at the National Archives Museum in Washington said that 'we can defeat Al Qaeda ...if we stay true to who we are...anchored in our timeless ideals.' A much more somber note, however, was in a warning by retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter the day before at Georgetown University Law Center.

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Related Topix: US News

Wed Jun 24, 2009

ABC7 Chicago

North Shore native is jilted wife in gov.'s scandal

When Jenny Sullivan was growing up in north suburban Winnetka and attending the prominent Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart college prep in Lake Forest, she must have learned a few things about forgiveness.

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Related Topix: Mark Sanford, US Governors, Charleston, SC, Charleston Metro

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Curve

Breaking Through Boundaries

It's a Race Thing Her involvement in a study of attitudes toward black lesbians in the '80s at Georgetown University propelled Dr.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, HIV/AIDS, Health, African-American, Activism, San Francisco Metro

Fort Collins Coloradoan

Comment demonstrates ignorance

Re: Jamie Kepros' June 9 Soapbox about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court: Here is what Sotomayor wrote in an opinion she handed down as a Circuit Court of Appeals judge: She 'hoped a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't ...

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Related Topix: Sonia Sotomayor, US News, US Supreme Court, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Mon Jun 22, 2009

ClipSyndicate

VIDEO: In-Depth Look - The Cost Of Health Care Reform

Interview and discussion with Jean Mitchell of the Georgetown University. She talks about President Obama's plan to create a health care reform.

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Related Topix: Video, US Politics, US News

Sun Jun 21, 2009

103JAMZ.com

Why R U? - Amerie

Pop-oriented R&B singer Amerie, the daughter of a Korean mother and an African-American father who was a career military member, grew up on bases from Alaska to Germany.

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