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Your Thanksgiving tradition sounds like a major operation...
...Given the backdrop of health care reform and insurers' preoccupation with cost containment, the major concern is that women under 50 may now stand to lose insurance coverage for mammography - a preventive test that Medicare is mandated to pay for. But Sebelius rejected the notion. The task force does not "set federal policy, and they don't determine what services are covered by the Federal Government," she said. On the part of the task force, Petitti says the cost of mammography was never mentioned in the panel's discussions...
...version also gave an incorrect number for the initial reported vote margin between the two major tickets. In the initial, reported tally, Bowman-Hysen had a 45-vote lead over Hayward-Zhang—not a 46-vote lead...
...relationship between the United States and China has never been more important to our collective future," Obama said on Tuesday as he stood before reporters with Chinese President Hu Jintao. "The major challenges of the 21st century, from climate change to nuclear proliferation to economic recovery, are challenges that touch both our nations and challenges that neither of our nations can solve by acting alone. That's why the United States welcomes China's efforts in playing a greater role on the world stage - a role in which a growing economy is joined by growing responsibilities." (See pictures of Barack...
...Salvador's civil war officially ended with a peace accord in 1992. But this month marks the 20th anniversary of the conflict's last major battle, a 1989 FMLN attack on the capital San Salvador. As part of its counterattack, the Army murdered six Jesuit priests and two of their housekeepers; but the rebels' actions during that urban offensive, which killed scores of civilians and injured hundreds more, weren't particularly admirable, either. If the Route of Peace can help to keep Salvadorans, and foreign governments like the U.S., from repeating the mistakes of that dark decade, then it seems...