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CDC defends actions in TB case as lawyer starts new treatment (U.S., 12 articles) [UPDATE]
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While the federal government rarely imposes quarantines issuing its first in more than four decades last week cities and states routinely isolate TB patients to prevent them from infecting others. Since the Atlanta lawyer has been isolated in a special room at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, federal health officials lifted their quarantine order Saturday night, but it was replaced with a Denver health agency's restriction. Bob Cooksey will be investigated to see how he was involved in the case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday. A woman sped through a crowded street festival Saturday night, injuring about 35 people, including two police officers who drove their motor scooters into her path attempting to stop her, authorities said. In an exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer , tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker said he never thought others were at risk for catching his deadly disease. Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker, 31, made headlines this week when he traveled on an international commercial flight with a rare form of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The ABC interview took place at a specialist clinic in Denver, where Mr Speaker is under quarantine.
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Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine (U.S., 4 articles)
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Potentially embarrassing or compromising scenes like these are raising questions about whether the Internet's leading search engine has gone too far in its latest attempt to make the world a more accessible - and transparent - place. The Mountain View-based company already is planning to expand the service to other U.S. cities and other countries. It takes pictures of your house from outer space, copies rare Sanskrit books in India, charms its way onto Madison Avenue, picks fights with Hollywood and tries to undercut Microsoft s software dominance.
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Inmates clash in prison fight (U.S., 4 articles)
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Three of the injured prisoners remained in serious condition at area hospitals yesterday, a spokesman with the Maryland Division of Correction said. Corrections officers manned the closed gates yesterday to a street that runs through the downtown state prison complex, checking employee IDs and fielding questions from inmates' relatives. The inmates with the worst wounds were taken to area hospitals - three with critical injuries that could be considered life-threatening, said Major Priscilla Doggett
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Common questions about analyzing tests for cheating (U.S., 4 articles)
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Accusations of cheating in Texas schools began in earnest in 2004, when a series of stories in The News uncovered cheating in Wilmer-Hutchins schools in southern Dallas County. But eventually a TEA team found that two-thirds of the test proctors in the district's elementary schools had helped students improperly. Tens of thousands of students cheat on the TAKS test every year, including thousands on the high-stakes graduation test, according to an in-depth data analysis by The Dallas Morning News.
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ABC News: Democrats Get Combative Over Iraq (U.S., 7 articles)
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By CHARLES HURT May 26, 2007 White House hopefuls John McCain and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama engaged in a nasty firefight yesterday, with the McCain campaign blasting Obama as a dope-headed dove ready to surrender to al Qaeda. McCain accused both the Illinois senator and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of "waving a white flag" at al Qaeda by voting late Thursday against funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - The Democratic presidential front-runners came under attack from a rival on Sunday for showing insufficient leadership on ending the war in Iraq in a debate in which the main target was President George Bush.
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Then and now on immigration debate (U.S., 6 articles)
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Lawyers say that federal regulations prohibit state and local police officers from helping to enforce immigration laws in the absence of an explicit agreement like the one signed by Romney and rescinded by Patrick. Tomas R. Jimenez pretends that the reason immigration legislation is controversial is described by the question, " What effect will these permanently settled immigrants have on American identity?. Like other apologists for the illegals, Jimenez tries to erase the distinction between legal immigrants who have a right to be here and illegal aliens who do not.
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The Seattle Times: Ginseng, flaxseed show promise in tests (U.S., 5 articles)
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CHICAGO For the first time, doctors say they have found a pill that improves survival in liver cancer, a notoriously hard to treat disease diagnosed in more than half a million people globally each year. The results in a multinational study of 602 patients with advanced liver cancer are impressive and likely will change the way patients are treated, cancer specialists including the study authors say. Patients got either two tablets daily of a drug called sorafenib or dummy pills in the study, which started in March 2005.
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Patriots grieve for Hill at New Orleans service (U.S., 5 articles)
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The death of New England Patriots defensive end Marquise Hill , who fell off a jet ski Sunday in Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, was ruled an accidental drowning yesterday. An autopsy found no signs of drug or alcohol in Hill's body , although more tests are planned and will take two weeks to complete, said Dr. Frank Minyard. Hill's body was discovered by searchers about a quarter-mile from where the 24-year-old former LSU star and a female companion were involved in the accident, Capt. Brian Clark of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department said.
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Informant says Vick bet thousands on dogfights (U.S., 4 articles)
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The prosecutor in the investigation of a possible dogfighting operation at a Richmond, Va., house owned by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is confident charges will be brought. A study of more than 2,500 retired NFL players found that those who had at least three concussions during their careers had triple the risk of clinical depression as those who had no concussions. Those who recalled one or two concussions were 1 1/2 times more likely to be diagnosed with depression, said Kevin Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina's Center for the Study of Retired Athletes.
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ABC News: The 'Average Guy' Peddling Pinot (U.S., 4 articles)
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The die-hard New York Jets fan and director of the Wine Library, a liquor store in Springfield, N.J., is stripping wine of its stuffiness with his daily webcast, " Wine Library TV.. Swilling, rating and using such descriptors as leather baseball glove, cat pee and vomit to characterize wines, Vaynerchuk has hooked an average of 20,000 fans a day on his webcast. As BevMo's cellar master and " extreme researcher as he puts it, Wong makes big choices about what wine lovers all over California will be drinking tonight.
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Poof! Smoke gone (U.S., 4 articles)
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With just minutes to go before the Baltimore area's first smoking ban in bars and restaurants took effect yesterday, Steve Miller shouted a final rallying cry into the microphone at the crowded Phoenix Emporium on Main Street in historic Ellicott City. At the back of the room , Bradley Arnold, who turned 22 yesterday, lit up and shouted back, " Chainsmoke till midnight. Behind the wooden bar at the watering hole he owns in the heart of Adams Morgan, Darrell Green reached into his shirt pocket yesterday for his box of Marlboro Lights.
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