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...guess is that the public option is a bargaining chip that will be cashed in to gain support from moderate Republicans and Democrats as crunch time approaches. The real battle, and the fate of this liberal dream, will be fought over what gets covered and who decides...
...that seals are sometimes skinned while still conscious. "The Parliament has hammered the final nail in the coffin of the sealing industry's market in the E.U.," said Lesley O'Donnell, from the International Fund for Animal Welfare. "The decision will save millions of seals from a horrible fate," added Humane Society International director Mark Glover...
Recently, rumors that hot breakfast would no longer be available in the House dining halls created quite an uproar on campus. Though the fate of Veritas waffles may be at stake, I trust that the student body can speak for itself about such matters. I am more concerned with another potential budget cut that would involve layoffs of low-wage workers, particularly because their voices are not always heard...
...rapidly put in isolation with five other patients. "We had no communication with the outside world - no newspapers or telephones - so we didn't know much about this swine flu or how bad it was," he recalls. "When the woman died we were scared that this could be the fate of us all." Their fears only increased when a doctor and nurse who had been attending to sufferers also developed symptoms, and themselves became patients in the ward. (See the top five swine...
Those very government forces are now about to be entrusted with the security of the streets of Iraq - and their role in the fate of the bodies found in Ur raises questions about how in the future they will deal with not just crime, but also political opposition and international standards of justice. Al-Maliki's record does not comfort human-rights activists...