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Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 5:18PM
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All colleges are not created equal, at least where student loan debt is concerned. Some schools have higher average debt incurred by their students than others. The Project on Student Debt recently revealed the worst colleges and universities for st ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 5:08PM
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court confronted the profound impact of new location-tracking technologies on Americans' privacy. The case, U.S. v. Jones, presents the question of whether law enforcement needs a warrant before planting a GPS tracking device o ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 5:02PM
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WASHINGTON -- A minuscule tax on financial transactions proposed by congressional Democrats would raise more than $350 billion over the next nine years, according to an analysis by the Joint Tax Committee, a nonpartisan congressional scorekeeping pan ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 4:53PM
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In the final analysis, Conrad Murray was the person was most responsible for Michael's death. But a host of others played a significant role. They ought to thank their lucky stars that the sins of the many have fallen on the shoulders of one. One can ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 4:32PM
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Credit Suisse AG, Switzerland's second-largest bank, has begun notifying certain U.S. clients suspected of offshore tax evasion that it intends to turn over their names to the Internal Revenue Service, with the help of Swiss tax authorities.
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Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 4:27PM
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(Reuters) - A software flaw in Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads may allow hackers to build apps that secretly install programs to steal data, send text messages or destroy information, according to an expert on Apple device security. Charlie Miller, a r ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 4:19PM
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Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that typically affects the small joints in your hands and feet. Unlike the wear-and-tear damage of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis affects the lining of your joints, causing a painful swell ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 3:00PM
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For the past 8 months we have been investigating the billionaire Koch brothers and presenting the results of their political influence to you. With this latest installment, we have discovered what we think is their worst offense yet. Through their we ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 2:48PM
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Twenty years is a long time to wait for justice, but last Thursday prosecutors vacated the convictions of five people, known as the Dixmoor 51, who as teenagers were forced to confess to murders they didn't commit. This is a huge victory and wouldn' ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 2:30PM
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Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the uni ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 11:13AM
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Florida clinic offers coupon in advertisement.
An Orlando abortion clinic has begun offering $50 discounts for abortions performed on Sundays through May 2012. The clinic, run by Dr. James Pendergraft, is located just down the street from the F ...
Posted Wednesday, November 9th 2011 at 10:18AM
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Joe Frazier, one of the biggest sports icons of the 1960s and 70s, passed away tonight from liver cancer at the age of 67. He was diagnosed less than six weeks ago and spent his final days in a Philadelphia-area hospice.
His family released this ...
Posted Tuesday, November 8th 2011 at 10:10AM
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This should come to no suprise to anyone who has watched Jay Leno's "Jaywalking segments", but when high school students were asked 10 basic questions about history and government, selected from the national citizenship test, which is administered t ...
Posted Tuesday, November 8th 2011 at 9:56AM
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The Evolution of Black Girls Rock!
Beverly Bond's philanthropic organization Black Girls Rock! spawned into the inspiring awards show of the same name. BGR! celebrates the brilliance and beauty of Black women. Learn more about BGR! and rewatch The ...
Posted Monday, November 7th 2011 at 5:34PM
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Ask an acute care hospital-based nurse whether he or she has ever considered ambulatory nursing, and you might get this response: "Why would I want to be an ambulatory nurse?" Or, "What is ambulatory nursing, anyway?" It's a fair question. Few scho ...
Posted Monday, November 7th 2011 at 4:54PM
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Federal judge protects conscience rights for nurses as case gets underway. Two nurses working at a hospital run by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey won’t have to assist in abortions today as planned, thanks to a federal judge. ...
Posted Monday, November 7th 2011 at 4:42PM
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According to numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau today, more people between the ages of 18 and 29 — otherwise known as Millennials — are living with their parents than before the recession started in 2007. And other experts say research shows ...
Posted Monday, November 7th 2011 at 4:39PM
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A Chicago woman says Herman Cain groped her in 1997 when Cain headed the National Restaurant Association. Cain's campaign denies the accusations.
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Posted Monday, November 7th 2011 at 4:20PM
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The jury's decision to be announced later. Murray was Jackson's personal physician as the pop star prepared for his comeback concerts. Murray gave Jackson the surgical anesthetic propofol to help him sleep nearly every night for the last two months o ...
Posted Monday, November 7th 2011 at 4:15PM
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The United States had another month of mediocre job growth in October, the Labor Department reported Friday. Employers added 80,000 jobs in October, slightly less than economists had been expecting. The figure for September was revised upward to 158, ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 12:07PM
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11/01/2011 – Today, Hamedah Hasan can finally apply for her freedom. Hamedah has been locked up for 18 years serving a prison sentence she never deserved. When she was 21 years old, she and her two daughters escaped an abusive relationship to live wi ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 11:37AM
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One of the most positive aspects of the nursing profession is the fact that there are so many choices for practice areas. We typically think of nurses as those at the bedside or on a unit in a hospital setting however many other opportunities exist w ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 11:29AM
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A great recruiter knows the business like the back of his or her hand, has a keen sense of where the best opportunities lie, and combines that with a deep understanding of what is important to you to build a new assignment that is even better than th ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 11:05AM
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A report released this week reveals yet another devastating consequence of the enforcement-only approach to immigration—a startling number of children whose parents have been detained and deported are placed in foster care and face enormous barriers ...
Posted Sunday, November 6th 2011 at 10:09AM
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