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Sep 2, 2010  Talks have begun in Washington on peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The goal is high - as President Obama, who is hosting the meeting - defines it. And the principals say they agree on that goal.
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Sep 2, 2010  When Congress passed the Bush income tax cuts, it included a proviso that the cuts would expire at the end of the year 2010 - unless Congress extended them. What Congress never anticipated is that the economy would be where it is right now.
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Sep 2, 2010  Mammoths are extinct, but we do know where and how they lived - and scientists have always wondered how they could have lived wandering around the Arctic where it is so bitterly cold.
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Sep 2, 2010  Back in 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a report that said eating an ounce-and-a-half a day of certain nuts might help to reduce the risk of heart disease.
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Sep 1, 2010  In a speech that lasted less than 20 minutes last night, President Obama covered a lot of ground - he felt he had to. On Iraq, he made a promised announcement.
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Sep 1, 2010  President Obama realized that for many - if not most - of his audience last night, the most pressing concern isn't foreign policy or conflicts in faraway places, but the impact of a troubled economy on their own lives.
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Sep 1, 2010  Doctors at Seattle Children's Research Institute have looked at the connection between obesity in teenage boys and sleep deprivation.
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Sep 1, 2010  As you may have heard, bees in this country have been mysteriously dying from what's called Colony Collapse Disorder. It seems that, for some reason, adult bees aren't living as long as they used to.
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Aug 31, 2010  President Obama will be addressing the nation tonight - and he's expected to announce that, as planned, the Iraqis are now in charge of the war in their country - and that the American combat role has officially ended.
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Aug 31, 2010  President Obama will be talking tonight not only about Iraq, but also Afghanistan - where more U.S. troops have been killed in the latest roadside bombings.
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Aug 31, 2010  Barry Humphries is a 76-year-old painter, writer, and actor from Australia, playing a character he invented fifty years ago: Edna Everage, known to the world as Dame Edna - who doesn't seem to like Humphries very much.
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Aug 31, 2010  Sometimes, a drug developed to be effective against one sort of disease turns out unexpectedly to have positive results against quite another.
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Aug 30, 2010  The City of New Orleans marked a sad anniversary yesterday - five years since Hurricane Katrina barreled through the Gulf, five years since the levees broke and drowned The Big Easy.
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Aug 30, 2010  How did we get into the sea of red ink the country is drowning in - and how can we get out? It may seem too complicated for most of us, but we learned all we need to know in primary school.
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Aug 30, 2010  Not everything that everybody knows - or thinks he knows - is true. Everybody knows, for example - or thinks he knows - that expensive cancer treatments account for a large percentage of the burgeoning cost of health care in the United States.
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Aug 30, 2010  Let me say this, at the outset: I'm a city boy through and through, born and raised. So, there's very little about farming that I'm not ignorant about - and I can be easily fooled on the subject of agriculture.
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Aug 27, 2010  The latest CBS News Poll is a shocker: 83% of us rate the economy as bad, 34% of us say it's getting worse. Well, we're gonna fix it...
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Aug 27, 2010  The L.A. Times has rocked the education establishment with a series of articles about rating teachers, based in part on the progress of their students.
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Aug 27, 2010  He is easily the highest-ranking Republican figure to do it so far. Ken Mehlman - who ran George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign, and was chairman of the Republican National Committee - has un-closeted himself.
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Aug 27, 2010  So far, the search for messages from space has turned up exactly zero - no signs of any other intelligent civilizations. But now, look at this: all of a sudden, astronomers seem to be awash in new planets.
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Aug 26, 2010  Now, there's been an attack on a Muslim New York cab driver by an arts student from the suburbs. The student got into the cab, according to city police commissioner Ray Kelly, and asked the driver if he was a Muslim.
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Aug 26, 2010  Al-Qaida is a little like the oil spill: extremely toxic, and mysteriously invisible. Unfortunately, there are no magical bacteria eating away at it.
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Aug 26, 2010  Even before the recession hit, Americans were demanding "smaller government" - and finally, governments, faced with the reality of plummeting tax revenues, are delivering just that.
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Aug 26, 2010  The Tom Cruise film "Minority Report" depicted a future world where computers were able to predict the exact time when a crime would be committed. Or is it?
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Aug 25, 2010  Once again, bad news takes its toll on the stock market. Well, maybe if we just stopped reporting the depressing housing news - or, instead of the business report, played patriotic marches...
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Aug 25, 2010  Have we just seen an example of what Sharia Law might be like?
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Aug 25, 2010  It's not quite as bad as facing the next four months a half-mile underground in the Chilean mine - but, spending a week stuck in traffic on a highway in China, having to eat overpriced noodles, comes pretty close.
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Aug 25, 2010  They are a hundred light years away, orbiting a Sun-like star. They are planets, as many as seven of them - the most complex new planetary system astronomers have discovered so far.
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Aug 24, 2010  It has been a slow-moving, but terrifying, crisis: unstoppable flood waters, created by the worst rain in 80 years in Northeast Pakistan made the Indus River into a water monster that's been consuming the countryside.
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Aug 24, 2010  The stem cell issue is back! And this time, it's not just about respecting human life. At issue: is it legal to spend Federal money to experiment on stem cells from human embryos?
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Aug 24, 2010  The idea of the government just printing money to end the recession seems to scare people. But to economist Dean Baker, who sees the unemployment rate circling the economy like a wake of buzzards, the only thing scarier than printing money at this point would be not printing money.
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Aug 24, 2010  It happened August 5th as 33 miners were working a half mile underground in a Chilean copper mine: a landslide collapsed a tunnel, and left them trapped. After 17 days, rescuers were able to punch through - and then, came the extraordinary news: all 33 were alive.
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Aug 23, 2010  The amazing sudden disappearance of all that spilled oil is great news for Gulf businesses. But, for businesses trying to prove their damage claims: What do you do when the oil's gone, but the perception remains?
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Aug 23, 2010  Everyone is searching for the perfect analogy to win the argument over the "Ground Zero Mosque" - which is not at Ground Zero, and isn't primarily a mosque.
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Aug 23, 2010  U.S. combat troops are leaving Iraq - but, did we win? President Obama will give a speech on the end of the combat mission in Iraq next week. Gen. Ray Odierno - the commander of the U.S. forces in Iraq - sounded upbeat about the Iraqi Army.
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Aug 23, 2010  America's oldest family farm is no longer in the family. It's not easy to leave a piece of land that was given to your family by a king.
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Aug 20, 2010  The late Johnny Carson got his TV start on a quiz show called "Who Do You Trust?" Grammatical fine points aside, the whole world seems to be playing that game now when it comes to Iran's nuclear program.
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Aug 20, 2010  There've already been assertions that most of the oil from the BP oil spill is either already gone or rapidly disappearing. Where did all the oil go? Long time passing. Many, many years from now ... where will it go?
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Aug 20, 2010  Cigarette smoke is so bad for you in so many ways that some people refer to cigarettes as "coffin nails." Obviously, if you're a hooked chain smoker or go though a pack or two a day, you're flirting with serious consequences.
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Aug 20, 2010  130 years ago, Thomas Edison changed the world by creating the first marketable incandescent light bulb. Yet, 1.6 billion people in the world haven't caught up with that. That's because they have no electric grid to plug the bulb into.
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Aug 19, 2010  The last full brigade of American combat troops in Iraq - the 4th Stryker Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division - is now out of Iraq. The brigade crossed the border into Kuwait, well ahead of the August 31st deadline.
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Aug 19, 2010  GM - jokingly referred to as "Government Motors," since the Government owns more than 60% of it - has formally filed to become a public company and to raise money by offering shares again.
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Aug 19, 2010  There aren't enough kidneys available for people who need transplants. But a discovery in Britain could mean a substantial increase in the available kidneys there, here, and around the world.
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Aug 19, 2010  There's a chain of French restaurants called Dans le Noir - which means "In the Dark" - with branches in Paris, London and Barcelona - and plans to open one in Manhattan's Lower East Side - where you can't see anything, at all.
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Aug 18, 2010  The Federal jury in the trial of former Congressman and Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and his brother Robert has convicted them of only one of the 24 corruption charges against them: lying to an FBI agent.
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Aug 18, 2010  The Obama Administration is asking banking executives for their advice on changing the government's role in backing the 11 trillion dollar home mortgage market.
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Aug 18, 2010  Any time there is a catastrophic development anywhere, be it natural or manmade, it's human nature for the political opposition to blame the government for being callous or incompetent. Think of Katrina. Think of the BP oil spill. Right now, in flood-stricken Pakistan...
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Aug 18, 2010  Following up on a test done in the 1990's, a new study says that six-and-a-half million American teenagers now suffer from hearing loss.
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Aug 17, 2010  Harry Reid, the Senate's top Democrat, has come out against the building of that mosque in New York near Ground Zero. In doing so, Reid distances himself from President Obama on this issue.
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Aug 17, 2010  It is still raining in Pakistan - and the human toll of catastrophic flooding there is literally incalculable. Despite all efforts, most flood victims have yet to be reached by any sort of aid.
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Aug 17, 2010  It's been a year-and-a-half now since President Obama signed the 862 billion dollar stimulus package. Nearly all the money has been awarded - to state and local governments. But, little of it has actually been put to work, or had any actual affect on anything - or at least, that's how it seems to Republicans.
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Aug 17, 2010  It's almost back-to-school time. But a new survey from Chase and U.S. News & World Report says 55 percent of families with school age kids have yet to begin their back-to-school shopping - and 62 percent haven't even drawn up a budget for these things.
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Aug 16, 2010  In the building of that controversial mosque near Ground Zero in New York, President Obama seemed to be taking a stand Friday evening, when he seemed to be coming out unequivocally for the mosque project. Then, next day?
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Aug 16, 2010  For all the governmental talk and bluster about cleaner, greener energy sources - not a whole lot has changed in that regard. Ask Fred Krupp of the Environmental Defense Fund.
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Aug 16, 2010  Every other day, it seems a new study comes out, indicating something which "everybody" always believed to be true is actually not true.
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Aug 16, 2010  Hot enough for you this summer? Of course, this is a big country, and some places have been hotter - or wetter - than others. But 34 states, stretching from the Northeast to the Southwest, have had above average temperatures.
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Aug 13, 2010  It's been an awful summer weather-wise, not only here in the United States - but around the world: with blistering heat and fires in Russia, a disastrous deluge in Pakistan. And some scientists are saying we'd better get used to it.
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Aug 13, 2010  On our CBS Television broadcast this "Sunday Morning," we'll have Russ Mitchell's profile of Rob Reiner. Like his father - the great Carl Reiner - Rob has been an actor, writer, director and producer - all in the family business.
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Aug 13, 2010  It was seventy-five years ago this weekend that President Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law - on August 14th, 1935. Nearly a decade later, Roosevelt spelled out what is still the liberal agenda, when he proposed what he called a "Second Bill of Rights" in 1944.
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Aug 13, 2010  Laughter is the subject of a book by Robert Provine - a psychology professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. You know what's not funny? Serious books about laughter. So, what is laughter?
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Aug 12, 2010  The stock markets took a tumble yesterday, getting the Federal Reserve's none-too-subtle message that the economy is weakening. Investors, like the Fed, are now worried about deflation.
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Aug 12, 2010  Understandably, many young Americans have not looked at factory work as a career with a future. They've heard manufacturing - actually making things - is something they do in faraway lands, where labor is cheap.
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Aug 12, 2010  It may sound heretical - but the point can be made that, in many ways, the world's environment is not getting worse every day - but better. That point is made by Bjorn Lomborg, at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
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Aug 12, 2010  As a parent, you know it's important to make sure your school-age kids are eating a healthy diet, getting enough exercise, doing their homework, and not getting into drugs or alcohol. But there's something else you should pay attention to, too.
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Aug 11, 2010  House Democrats pushed through - and President Obama promptly signed - a 26 billion dollar jobs bill, mostly for laid off schoolteachers - but also for some police and firefighters, some of whom might have been laid off, too.
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Aug 11, 2010  The Federal Reserve has to react to the signals it's getting from the economy. And, what the Fed does and says also sends a signal that the economy reacts to - so that, in effect, the Fed and the economy are reacting to one another.
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Aug 11, 2010  These days, a lot of workers are not liable to take time off - or even be late - for work, for good reason. More than ever, people feel they have to show up at work on time now - punctuality counts.
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Aug 11, 2010  You can't learn by just putting a book under the pillow while you sleep - I've tried that, and it doesn't work! But Dr. Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, says you can learn while napping.
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Aug 10, 2010  Looks like the party's over at the Pentagon. So says Secretary of Defense Robert Gates - whose own office at the Pentagon has grown in the last ten years by a thousand people, many of whom are Generals and Admirals.
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Aug 10, 2010  Do you have so-called "senior moments"? There's nothing unusual about that, or ominous. But now, there's a study that finds there's something about Alzheimer's that only now is being fully realized.
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Aug 10, 2010  Freedom of choice is a great thing - we Americans love choice. But it can get a little overwhelming, sometimes. You've got to draw the line, though - our parents or the government can't make all your decisions for you.
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Aug 10, 2010  Science is based mostly on projecting from experience - what we know. The problem is that a lot of the things we think we know, based on our own experience, turn out to be wrong.
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Aug 9, 2010  The bodies of ten medical volunteers - six Americans, two Afghans, a German and a Briton - murdered by the Taliban in a remote valley of Afghanistan - have been flown to the capital at Kabul, where their leader - Tom Little, an eye doctor - will be buried.
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Aug 9, 2010  Most new jobs traditionally come from small businesses with new ideas. But the Patent Office backlog is such that to get a new idea patented now takes three years. Inventors say that's way too long.
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Aug 9, 2010  Demonizing is rampant in politics. But you don't have to be a politician - or even a person - to be demonized. Substances can be demonized, too. And right now, high fructose corn syrup is getting the treatment.
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Aug 9, 2010  It's been 12 years since the discovery of the human embryonic stem cell. There's been a lot of controversy about using it in medical research - a lot of hype about it, too.
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Aug 6, 2010  Sometimes, even if you're a naturalized American citizen, the call of home takes over - Attorney General Eric Holder described it as a "deadly pipeline" to Somalia.
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Aug 6, 2010  The confirmation of Elena Kagan means that for the first time, there will be three women on the Supreme Court - which, according to the President, makes her a powerful symbol.
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Aug 6, 2010  WikiLeaks - the Internet site that's been leaking Defense Department incident reports from Afghanistan - says it still has 15,000 more secret papers, including a massive file of encrypted data that's been posted for anybody who wants to try to decode it.
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Aug 6, 2010  Last year, NASA scientists released data showing they'd found something very exciting on the Moon. But, don't expect to find a lot of water below the Moon's surface. In fact, don't expect to find any.
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Aug 5, 2010  In overturning California's Proposition 8, Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker said its real purpose had nothing to do with protecting marriage - and everything to do with legislating the inferiority of gay people.
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Aug 5, 2010  When Federal Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California's Proposition 8 - and said gay couples had a constitutional right to marry - he pulled no punches. But for millions of Americans, this is clearly a major social change.
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Aug 5, 2010  The only thing more amazing than the amount of oil that's spilled into the Gulf since the BP blowout is the magical way it's just disappeared.
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Aug 5, 2010  The new commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, has updated the rules of engagement for U.S troops there - and the General thinks the old rules were pretty good, says CBS News Military Analyst Mike Lyons.
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Aug 4, 2010  Where has all the money gone? Republicans want to know! The President's stimulus package was supposed to keep unemployment below 8%, but it hasn't.
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Aug 4, 2010  The group planning an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan now has permission to clear the site. Needless to say, the opponents will sue.
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Aug 4, 2010  Oh, goody - another survey about how fat we are. In fact, not just one - but two - surveys, being released simultaneously! You see, we're so fat now, releasing one survey at a time is no longer enough.
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Aug 4, 2010  Sometimes, it just hits you: we've got to spend more time with the kids. I like this story. It's hard to believe the family actually did it, but they have the pictures.
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Aug 3, 2010  BP is closing Pandora's Box, forcing the genie back into the bottle, pushing the toothpaste back into its tube. If the heavy mud works as expected, the Gulf leak will be history.
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Aug 3, 2010  Hey, this idea that the Republicans are about to take over Congress in November? The President says there's only one way that can happen.
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Aug 3, 2010  When Barack Obama took office, there were 144,000 troops in Iraq. By the end of the month, there will be 50,000 - all of them considered "non-combat," as promised.
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Aug 3, 2010  Under overwhelming public pressure, the enormously well-paid city manager and police chief of Bell, California were forced to resign. But now, they're out. And you know what that means?
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Aug 2, 2010  Is this the "all clear" or not? Was BP's cleanup worse than the spill? Has the oil dispersant turned out to be more dangerous than the oil it dispersed?
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Aug 2, 2010  The President is under pressure from fellow Democrats to say something good about himself as the election gets closer, and so he's been doing just that.
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Aug 2, 2010  The President knows that most Americans want out of Afghanistan. But just what constitutes "finishing the job"?
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Aug 2, 2010  The city of Baldwin Park, California is renowned as the birthplace of the immortal In-N-Out Burger chain. Which means what the city has just done amounts to sacrilege - or at least, heresy.
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Jul 30, 2010  Fascinating as the leaked classified military documents on Afghanistan posted on the Internet may be, the military has asked the FBI to help get to the bottom of it, saying those responsible may have done incalculable harm.
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Jul 30, 2010  Included in the thousands of documents on Afghanistan leaked to and released by WikiLeaks are U.S. military intelligence and field reports saying that it was Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency that armed, trained and financed the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2009.
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Jul 30, 2010  In the peaceful serenity of Arlington National Cemetery, the graves of fallen are in neat orderly rows of white markers. Yet, come to find out - as we did yesterday - thousands of them may be mismarked.
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Jul 30, 2010  The downside of an increased lifespan is that the longer we live, the older we are - and the older we are, the more we need geriatric care.
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