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Sun-Times News Group :: Barack Obama :: (U.S., 13 articles)
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Former Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn and Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh appeared flattered that their names were being bandied about in the media as vice presidential contenders. Forty years earlier, a rising star named Barack Obama tall, elegant and impeccably dressed attacked the nation's post-independence government, accusing leaders of betraying their ideals and replicating the nepotism of departing colonialists. The return of Iraq and Afghanistan to the forefront of the presidential campaign illustrates how both sides increasingly seem to view the race as largely a referendum on Obama, a first-term Illinois senator trying to become the first black president. Moving the convention finale in Denver from an indoor arena to a huge stadium, with a bigger crowd and more "real" people, will probably suggest a new, more democratic spirit. The Kennedy comparison has already been made in so many ways that this extra echo feels insistent and unnecessary. On the Balboa Bay Club's wall of its most famous guests, there are photos of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford and, of course, the Duke. The announcement came a day after the Democratic presidential hopeful sought to downplay his recent remarks on the contentious issue of dividing Jerusalem.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Averting a rescue (U.S., 23 articles)
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration lobbied skeptical lawmakers Wednesday to support a rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as lawmakers weighed how to protect taxpayers while still giving the government unfettered power to pour money into the mortgage giants. WASHINGTON - Fresh worries spread through world markets Tuesday as a crisis of confidence battered more U.S. financial institutions and the chairman of the Federal Reserve issued a sobering assessment of economic woes. Asian stock markets fell sharply Tuesday as investor confidence in the U.S. financial system eroded even further despite a government-backed plan to help beleaguered mortgage financiers Fannie May and Freddie Mac.
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Release denied for dying Charles Manson follower (U.S., 6 articles)
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On Tuesday, the former follower of Charles Manson sought to end her story on her own terms: by being allowed to go home. " Susan has served a life sentence Virginia Seals, Atkins' sister-in-law, said in arguing that the state's longest-serving female inmate be freed. 1 why are all submitted comments posted? How does the editor pick and choose? I have submitted twice, maybe three times on different articles including this one and never once has mine been posted.
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Study: Kids' activity level drops with age (U.S., 6 articles)
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What's more, the study suggests fewer than a third of teens that age get even the minimum recommended by the government - an hour of moderate-to-vigorous exercise, like cycling, brisk walking, swimming or jogging. The sharp drop raises concerns about inactivity continuing into adulthood, which could endanger children's health throughout their lives, the study authors said. The new findings come just a week after an influential pediatricians group recommended that more children have their cholesterol checked and that some as young as eight years old should be given cholesterol-lowering drugs.
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400 volunteers exceed expectations :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Health News (U.S., 7 articles)
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Hundreds of volunteers will be at locations throughout the area to help parents register their children for the state's All Kids program, which provides health insurance coverage to kids at a reduced cost. There are no income or citizenship requirements to enroll in the program, and kids with pre-existing health conditions are also eligible to apply. On Saturday, hundreds of volunteers at locations throughout the city and suburbs processed 1,217 applications for All Kids, exceeding the goal of the 1,000 Healthy Kids & Families campaign sponsored by Resurrection Health Care and the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Schools feel crunch on lunch programs (U.S., 7 articles)
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The rising cost of grain, milk, and vegetables is expected to drive up school lunch prices this fall for tens of thousands of students, causing even further financial hardships for already-strapped public school systems across Massachusetts, education officials said. Some of the school systems that will be hit the hardest are the ones trying to offer the healthiest menu choices - fresh fruits and vegetables and other vitamin-rich choices that cost more than the processed fare that marked school lunches of old. That's why Baltimore schools chief Andres Alonso's plan to set up an alternative school for kids with behavioral problems inside the system's North Avenue headquarters makes a lot of sense.
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Knife crime policy in tatters as Home Secretary retreats on hospital visits by offenders (U.S., 6 articles)
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A spate of fatal knife attacks in the UK has sparked a debate about youth violence and gang culture in the country. Spain's Ministry for the Interior does compile separate statistics for knife crimes, but not because crimes with knives are on the rise. The Government's knife crime strategy was in disarray last night as the Home Secretary was accused of a humiliating U-turn over plans, briefed at the weekend, to confront offenders with stabbing victims in hospital.
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Lawmakers seek oil-drilling compromise (U.S., 6 articles)
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WASHINGTON (CNN) Two bipartisan groups one in the House, one in the Senate are trying to rekindle stalled energy-legislation by forging a compromise to expand domestic oil and gas drilling. The compromise would include new domestic drilling to satisfy Republicans and promote conservation and alternative energy sources to satisfy Democrats, several lawmakers said. The group in the Senate says its plan probably would allow drilling in new areas of the outer continental shelf, an idea vehemently opposed by Democratic leaders.
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Glenn Fleishman and Jeff Carlson Practical Mac columns (U.S., 4 articles)
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Her book, "Plant Life: Growing a Garden in the Pacific Northwest" (Sasquatch Books, 2002) is a selection of her columns in Pacific Northwest magazine. From ruby banana trees to peas in purple pods, they 're delicious to see or eat Plant Life. The topics I choose represent the things in which I take an interest, and I try to deal with them the way most folks would, sometimes seriously, sometimes with a sense of humor.
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Knox and Vivienne make 8 for Jolie-Pitt family (U.S., 4 articles)
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The newborns und Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, born one minute apart Saturday evening und are the ultimate million-dollar babies, with experts estimating their first photos will fetch a fortune. " In the celebrity world, it seems to be the double second coming said Darryn Lyons a photo agency in London. Sussmann said the Caesarean was moved forward from its originally planned date "for medical reasons" so the babies could be born " in the best conditions.
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Pope ends Australia vacation, readies for pilgrims (U.S., 9 articles)
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SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict XVI praised the Australian government Thursday for its " courageous' apology to the country's indigenous Aborigines for past injustices, saying it offered hope to all the world's disadvantaged peoples. The remarks came in the pope's first public appearance on a 10-day visit to Australia to lead the Roman Catholic church's youth festival, which has drawn more than 200,000 pilgrims to Sydney from across the world. Benedict said Australia's original inhabitants were an essential part of the country's cultural landscape, and cited their plight since the first British convict settlers arrived 220 years ago.
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Congress overrides Bush's veto on Medicare bill (U.S., 8 articles)
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The bill, called the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, would halt a scheduled 10.6 percent cut in payments to physicians and instead institute a 1.1 percent payment increase in 2009. The override vote in the House was a lopsided 383-41, easily meeting the two-thirds threshold needed to nullify the president's veto. Bush said the cuts to insurers would harm the managed-care program, which his administration sees as giving seniors more choices and eventually leading to lower health costs for the federal government.
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Option ARM loans aren't all bad (U.S., 8 articles)
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The new regulations particularly target abuses in the subprime mortgage market, which has been largely unregulated because the loans are secured and held by private investors. Subprime mortgages, designed to make loans available to borrowers with low incomes or poor credit, carry above-market interest rates to compensate investors for the added risk of default. " This probably would not be the loan for a person who planned on making just the minimum payment every month said the Washington Mutual senior loan consultant.
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Ronnie Wood checks into rehab for alcohol problem (U.S., 4 articles)
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Rocker Ronnie Wood, who has been admitted to rehab, has lived the ultimate sex, drugs and rock n roll lifestyle. The Rolling Stones guitarist started his music career in 1964 with R&B band The Birds - a popular live band who enjoyed a few hits in the 1960s before splitting. After a stint with the Jeff Beck Group as a bassist in the late 1960s, he began working with the Small Faces, along with Rod Stewart.
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Police Hope Levy's Ring Holds Clues to Her Fate (U.S., 7 articles)
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Police had been at the site, on a steep slope 100 yards northwest of Broad Branch Road NW, since a man walking his dog stumbled across Levy's skeletal remains May 22. He said police guarded the site for an extra day while waiting for the FBI crime lab in Quantico to study recovered items, including some of Levy's clothing. With the go-ahead from the FBI, the last D.C. and U.S. Park Police cruisers left about 5:45 p.m. yesterday.
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Big Tobacco Lures Young Smokers With Menthol Cigarettes: Study (U.S., 7 articles)
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Hoping to lure a new generation of smokers, tobacco companies routinely manipulate levels of menthol so that their cigarettes prove more appealing and less harsh to novice users, Boston researchers reported today. Scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health scoured thousands of pages of industry documents from the 1980s, 90s, and more recently, and commissioned laboratory tests of menthol cigarettes to uncover a strategy that was decades in the making. The researchers found that tobacco companies embrace a Goldilocks approach when launching brands: Add too little menthol, which has an effect akin to anesthesia, and tobacco retains its intense bite.
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Canoe man 'begged to come home' (U.S., 6 articles)
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John Gizzi was jailed two years ago and ordered to repay $2.6m of his ill-gotten gains or face a long stretch in prison. The jury was read transcripts of interviews between Mrs Darwin and police which were taken after Mr Darwin's reappearance and the couple's subsequent arrest last year. The wife of canoeist John Darwin who faked his own death "lied at length" even after her supposedly dead husband reappeared, a court has heard.
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Senate: UBS, Liechtenstein aided US tax cheats (U.S., 5 articles)
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US Congressional investigators will on Thursday accuse UBS and Liechtenstein's LGT Group of using the "cloak of bank secrecy laws" to help American clients evade billions of dollars in taxes. The report - which offers no conclusion on whether the banks broke the law - comes as regulators worldwide have ramped up efforts to crack down on tax havens. Much of Thursday's report, which focuses on Switzerland's UBS and Liechtenstein's LGT, details allegations obtained from whistle-blowers, co-operative witnesses and interviews with the companies examined over the past six months.
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WA fire crews gain ground on blazes (U.S., 5 articles)
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TROUT LAKE, Wash. - Despite gusty winds and warm temperatures the past few days, fire crews continued to gain ground Wednesday on several blazes burning in Eastern Washington. The Cold Springs fire near Mount Adams has burned nearly 12 square miles in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and on the Yakama Indian Reservation. Fire crews started a controlled burn in the Los Padres National Forest in hopes of halting the massive blaze's spread through the ravaged hills of the central California coast.
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Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak (U.S., 5 articles)
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President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003. The president's decision drew a sharp protest Wednesday from Rep. Henry Waxman which had subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over the documents. A House committee chairman, meanwhile, held off on a contempt citation of Mukasey und who had requested the privilege claim und but only as a courtesy to lawmakers not present.
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Two more salmonella cases in Mass. linked to outbreak (U.S., 5 articles)
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WASHINGTON - Frustrated tomato growers and sellers have asked the government to lift a five-week-old salmonella warning and want taxpayers to reimburse them for losses that could exceed $100 million, industry officials said yesterday. Tomato farmers, packers and distributors made the request to the Food and Drug Administration last week, a month after the agency first told consumers to avoid eating certain tomatoes from suspected regions, later identified as parts of Florida and Mexico. New Mexico's jalapeno crop is a month away from harvest and therefore not part of the latest warning regarding the link between salmonella and raw jalapeno and serrano peppers.
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FAA taking steps to lower odds of runway collisions (U.S., 5 articles)
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Washington Post Fashion Editor Robin Givhan was online Thursday, March 6, at 2 p.m. ET to weigh in on the fourth season finale of Project Runway. The agency expects to award a contract this fall to install the runway-light systems at 22 large airports over the next three years. The FAA also hopes to provide up to $5 million to test cockpit displays that would give pilots the most up-to-date information on runway conditions.
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Q&A: Sats results problems (U.S., 5 articles)
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Boxes of unmarked English test scripts had been left uncollected in a school, despite the exam chief's claim to MPs that delayed marking was 100% complete. Heads have continued to contact the BBC News website with claims of incomplete marking, missing papers and pupils wrongly claimed as absent. Schools still waiting for their pupils' marks are being advised to check for updated online results between now and 25 July.
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Calif. court rejects gay-marriage-initiative case (U.S., 4 articles)
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The decision, reached in closed session during the court's weekly conference, cleared the way for what some observers expect to be a close vote on the marriage measure. SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) The California Supreme Court has cleared the way for Californians to vote in November on whether to ban same-sex marriages in the state. Hundreds of marriage licenses have been issued to same-sex couples since mid-June, a month after the court overturned the state's laws against such unions.
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Downtown Dallas Rental Guides (U.S., 4 articles)
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Many of the residents are medical students or hospital employees because of the three hospitals in close proximity. Why North Dallas? " I think because we 're starting a family, and I 'm a social worker, we wanted a very affordable place. The List: North Dallas - The Cooper Fitness Center in North Dallas is a multi-divisional health and fitness complex that includes a fitness center, spa, clinic, and hotel.
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Woman linked to death, burning of man is denied bond - (U.S., 4 articles)
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The 20-year-old son of a brazen con artist who has been convicted of killing her boyfriend and then setting his body on fire is scheduled to plead guilty later this month for his role in that crime, according to court records. Matthew Haarhoff is charged with first-degree murder in the February 2006 death of Tony Fertitta, whose body was found burning in the Old Mill community of Anne Arundel County. A family member said yesterday that Haarhoff was expected to plead to a lesser charge, but his attorney and prosecutors declined to discuss the details of the plea.
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City's love for beer goes back 175 years :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Business (U.S., 4 articles)
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Angry mobs took to the streets when Mayor Levi Boone great-nephew of famed frontiersman and folk hero Daniel Boone decided to close taverns on Sundays and raise the price of liquor licenses. One could argue that our beer-drinking forebears slammed so much beer after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 that we made Milwaukee almost " famous. In the aftermath of the fire, Milwaukee-based Schlitz shipped so many beers to our devastated and thirsty city that its sales jumped 100 percent, and Schlitz soon became " The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous.
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Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell jams with lawmakers members at farm bill celebration (U.S., 4 articles)
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Mr. Peterson joined NASCAR in 1995 and spearheaded several safety initiatives, including the installation of Steel and Foam Energy Reduction Barriers and the implementation of safety features in the Car of Tomorrow. Brian France, NASCAR's chairman and chief executive, said Mr. Peterson's efforts will benefit NASCAR drivers for generations to come. A Will County judge modified Drew Peterson's bond Monday, allowing him to leave Illinois on vacation with his children while the judge mulls a defense motion to dismiss felony weapons charges.
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Anglicans meet amid gay bishop row (U.S., 4 articles)
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CANTERBURY, England (CNN) Controversy over gay clergy and female bishops is likely to dominate the Anglican church's once-a-decade conference, which begins Wednesday. Many invited bishops are boycotting the event, angry that the church allowed the consecration of a gay bishop in the United States in 2003. Williams did not invite the gay bishop at the center of the debate, the Rev. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, in a bid to quell controversy but many conservative bishops have still refused to attend.
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Pioneering heart doctor Michael DeBakey dead at 99 (U.S., 4 articles)
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DeBakey, a world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, died Friday night in Houston. According to a statement issued early Saturday by Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital, DeBakey died of "natural causes" shortly after arriving at the hospital. DeBakey, whose career spanned more than 70 years, counted world leaders among his patients and helped turn Baylor from a provincial school into one of the nation's great medical institutions.
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Family justice: what we can do to protect our children (U.S., 4 articles)
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When Social Workers, Guardians and their Solicitors tell a child that they are being traumertised by the system "for their own good" there is something very seriously wrong with the system. The Family Court being a Civil Court uses as I understand it, "the balance of probabilities" a much lower standard of proof to that used in the Criminal Courts "beyond reasonable doubt". The oft cited "Best interests of Children" and "Every Case is Different" are excuses used to avoid dealing with reality.
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New York Post (U.S., 4 articles)
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SARKO 'S QUEST FOR A SYRIAN SWITCH July 11, 2008 - IS Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about to switch sides? French President Nicolas Sarkozy's entourage says yes - emphatically. FIXING THE NATION 'S SACRED MOMENT July 4, 2008 - MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. THE impatient patriots here had splen didly short fuses in 1775. Working... more SOOTHING OBAMA, TWEAKING MCCAIN June 27, 2008 - TWO of yesterday's Supreme Court rulings both decided 5-4, and with the same alignment of justices concerned the Constitution's first two amendments.
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