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...surface, there was nothing unusual about the Oct. 6 telephone call between White House health-care boss Nancy-Ann DeParle and Karen Ignagni, the leading medical-insurance lobbyist in Washington. The two women have known each other for years and often speak several times a week. Though Ignagni's group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), has long been leery of - and at other times downright hostile to - the health-care bills moving through Congress, an uneasy truce was holding between the insurers and a White House bent on reform. But just barely: when DeParle and a Senate aide asked...
Rossi’s group concluded that increased alcohol consumption in both men and women strongly decreased the likelihood of a woman’s egg being successfully fertilized...
...corporations has not escaped the notice of the Obama administration, which has ordered average compensation reductions of 50 percent at seven of the largest recipients of federal bailout funds. The cuts will affect the executives of some of the companies most closely linked with the recession, including American International Group, General Motors, and Citigroup. However, other firms that have already paid off their bailout loans, like financial behemoths Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are immune from these restrictions and may continue to award massive bonuses to their executives...
...Harvard, a group of students focused on more tangible efforts towards reducing carbon emissions. Mobilized by the Environmental Action Committee, these students learned how to “weatherize” homes, a process that retrofits homes to be more energy efficient by sealing windows and patching holes in several Cambridge buildings...
Students also learned other masonry and electrical techniques from professionals who volunteer for the Home Energy Efficiency Team, a group that brings Cambridge community members together to weatherize local homes...