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...House outline is how they would actually pay for health-care reform. Specifically, there is no mention of an idea being kicked around in the Senate Finance Committee to impose new taxes on at least some of the employer-provided health benefits that workers now get tax-free. House sources say they are facing strong resistance from rank-and-file Democrats against that idea, and Rangel has previously expressed his opposition to such a funding measure...
...heart of the crisis stretches back a year, when the Garcia government, using special powers granted it by Congress, passed nearly 100 legislative decrees to facilitate implementation of a free-trade agreement with the United States. The agreement came into force this past February. Indigenous communities, under AIDESEP, objected to a number of decrees that dealt with water and land rights. They argued that the decrees would not only increase the number of oil and logging concessions already granted in the country's 67 million hectares (165 million acres) of rain forest, but allow for the actual sale of their...
...Free speech advocates were also caught off guard. Some complained that the move was yet another brick in China's notorious Great Firewall, the government's ever-expanding system of website blocking, word-recognition software and other surveillance and censorship activities that severely restrict what Chinese netizens can access. But everyone is in the dark about the details: how the software will be installed, whether it was possible to remove it from computers, whether scofflaws will be penalized and how the rules would be enforced. "The biggest challenge right now is that we don't have any details," says...
Tweet Deal. Marriott's gotten into the whole social network thing. Follow @MarriottIntl on Twitter, or check the hotel's website, to get the Deal of the Day every weekday at 7 a.m. EST through June 12. Deals can include discounts on room rates, free nights or free breakfasts at the hotel chain's Caribbean, Hawaii and California resorts. A sample from last week: two nights of a six-night stay free at Frenchman's Reef & Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort on St. Thomas. You get 24 hours to jump on that day's deal...
...Lonely Planet guidebooks on your iPhone, with apps for 20 cities, such as London, Barcelona, Tokyo and Miami. GPS mapping allows you to see all the nearby bars, restaurants and cultural landmarks in your vicinity. To get you hooked, Lonely Planet is offering the San Francisco app for free until the end of June; after that, it retails for $15.99. Click here to download...