WASHINGTON – Two Northwest Airlines pilots have told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the Nati ...
Posted Monday, October 26th 2009 at 5:11PM
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WASHINGTON – Majority Leader Harry Reid says health care legislation headed to the Senate floor will include an option for government-run insurance. Reid says states will have the prerogative of opting out of the program if they choose. Reid noted t ...
Posted Monday, October 26th 2009 at 5:09PM
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Health care Keeps Going Strong
The health care sector should remain one of the sturdiest fields through the decade, with needs for:
1. Personal and Home Health care Aids: Associate's degree. The second-fastest growing professional field in all ca ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2009 at 10:03PM
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Sales Representatives
More than ever, big companies are farming out their sales forces. But instead of jobs going overseas, they're going to the suburbs. According to the BLS, one in five sales reps telecommute. The highest paying sales jobs usually ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2009 at 9:58PM
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombs tore through Baghdad on Sunday, killing 132 people, wounding more than 500 and leaving mangled bodies and cars on the streets in one of Iraq's deadliest days this year. The two blasts shredded buildings and smok ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2009 at 9:51PM
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AHIP is the powerful insurance lobby that spends 5 million dollars a week trying to kill health care reform. Billionaires for Wealthcare is a grassroots network looking to stop them - with song.
• AHIP and other insurance and HMO interests spend ...
Posted Sunday, October 25th 2009 at 2:57PM
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The NewYork Times does a excellent job of letting Ms. Sherri West tell the story of how her life changed after a devastating divorce which eventually led to the loss of her business and home. Inspite of West's challenges, she tells how she has staye ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2009 at 2:13PM
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WASHINGTON — Late last month, the senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, met in an empty Palm steakhouse before it opened for the day, neutral ground secured for a secret tęte-ŕ-tęte. Mr. ...
Posted Friday, October 23rd 2009 at 1:05PM
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D.C. - Today, the Immigration Policy Center released a new report, Breaking Down the Problems: What's Wrong With our Immigration System. This special report looks at the impact our outdated and inefficient immigration system is having on our nation a ...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st 2009 at 4:06PM
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October 21
Double Dutch is historically a jump rope game played by black children (mainly girls) in rural and urban areas in America. The first concrete evidence of jump rope activity can be seen in medieval paintings where children roll hoops ...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st 2009 at 2:59PM
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October 17, 2009 Op-Ed Guest Columnist by BONO (singer/songwriter)
http://www.atu2.com/band/bono/
A FEW years ago, I accepted a Golden Globe award by barking out an expletive. One imagines President Obama did the same when he heard about his Nob ...
Posted Wednesday, October 21st 2009 at 2:40PM
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made a special guest appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this week to reprise his role as "The Rock Obama." This was by far the most Obama-sympathetic opener of the season, as it detailed the problems he inherited when he to ...
Posted Tuesday, October 20th 2009 at 4:49PM
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October 18
On this date in 1926, Chuck Berry was born. He is an African-American Rock & Roll musician and songwriter.
Charles "Chuck" Edward Berry was born in San Jose, California, and grew up in St. Louis. In the early 1950s, Berry led a popu ...
Posted Sunday, October 18th 2009 at 9:58PM
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Who wouldn’t want to buy a Black doll named little monkey for their little girl? What better way to reinforce the idea that people of colour are less than, than by giving a child a toy that plays upon the racialized meme that we are animals. If th ...
Posted Friday, October 16th 2009 at 6:10AM
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What is meant by the term "body image'
Answer: Body image is the term used to describe how we see ourselves when we look in the mirror – and how we believe others see us. Different than a reflection, which is what the mirror "sees,' body image en ...
Posted Thursday, October 15th 2009 at 5:05PM
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HONG KONG - Harry Connick Jr. says he did the right thing by expressing his outrage at a blackface skit poking fun at the Jackson Five in Australia last week. "I'm pleased with the way I handled the situation," the 42-year-old American singer and ac ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 2:14PM
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Netting $2.5 billion in profits last year wasn't enough for WellPoint, the nation's largest insurance company. Now, WellPoint's affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, is suing the state of Maine for refusing to guarantee it a profit margin in ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 4:11AM
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You and more than 50,000 others have joined the call for CNN to dump Lou Dobbs! Now it's time to take the next step. In just one week, CNN will launch its “Latino in America” series, which tells the stories of Latinos from across the count ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 3:02AM
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TORONTO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey was so taken by Sapphire's novel "Push" that she read it more than once. Yet even though the talk-show host has made best-sellers of unknown books, Winfrey didn't think even her staggering influence could make "Push" — t ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 2:57AM
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In the almost two decades since comedian Chris Rock has been on the scene, he’s been everything from sidekick and standup star to producer/host of two hit TV shows, “The Chris Rock Show” and “Everybody Hates Chris,” respectively. His stand-up career ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 2:49AM
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Years ago while in high school I was recruited to study engineering. My parents wouldn't let me go all the way to Boston. Now I am a clothing engineer. I am always cold, always inventing some way to stay warm. Sometimes I hate bulky winter sweaters. ...
Posted Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 1:21AM
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As nurses, we've seen the costs our health care system imposes on all Americans. But our special role in this system -- as caregivers of young and old alike -- means that we also have a special role to play in the debate over reforming it.
We' ...
Posted Thursday, October 8th 2009 at 12:32PM
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Let me offer a modest proposal: If Congress fails to pass comprehensive health reform this year, its members should surrender health insurance in proportion with the American population that is uninsured. It may be that the lulling effect of having ...
Posted Thursday, October 8th 2009 at 11:02AM
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Ring the bell, school's back in!
Football is back in, too, for Michael Crabtree(notes). After a long holdout, he finally signed a contract with the San Francisco 49ers. As it turns out, all they needed was a little help from M.C. Hammer.
Actual ...
Posted Wednesday, October 7th 2009 at 9:06PM
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An Oakland Raiders cornerback claims he was penalized on Sunday for making a religious display while celebrating an interception. After picking off a Matt Schaub(notes) pass in the end zone, Oakland Raiders cornerback Chris Johnson celebrated by dro ...
Posted Wednesday, October 7th 2009 at 8:28PM
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