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President Barack Obama said he's "surprised and deeply humbled" to receive the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and will travel to Norway in December to accept the honor...
Obama said he doesn't "feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize" but that he would travel to Oslo in December to accept it as "a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century." He then rattled off a laundry list of problems. Beyond nuclear weapons and climate change, he said he hoped the prize would serve as a catalyst to grapple with the Middle East, violence, poverty, disease and racism. "Some of the work confronting us will...
...Green Initiative has lauded the effectiveness of limiting napkin dispensers in the dining hall to reduce waste and cut costs. Take away napkin dispensers and less people use napkins. Take away toilet paper and... well, maybe in the interest of cleanliness, the administration shouldn’t accept that advice in concert with these Bank ideas: “People can clean their own bathrooms” and the proposed dumping of Dorm Crew...
...army, but faced with unpredictable and uncontrollable events, not even the head of state can exercise discipline." - Refusing to accept responsibility for the stadium massacre (Radio France Internationale, Sept...
...spokesman for the president of the state senate, says, "The hope is that it will dovetail very nicely with health reform nationally." Rhode Island, which has some of the most stringent insurance-market regulations in the country, already has guaranteed issue in the small group market (requiring insurers to accept all applicants) and strict limits on how insurance companies can set premium rates based on health status. "Changing the underwriting laws will be relatively easy for us," says Chris Koller, Rhode Island's insurance commissioner...