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...average, each case of foodborne illness cost $1,850; in Hawaii, where everything is more expensive, each case incurred $2,008 in damages, the highest in the U.S. (Rounding out the top 10 states with the highest costs: Florida, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, the District of Columbia, Mississippi, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey.) (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...towering obstacle: Bush fatigue has by no means disappeared, whatever setbacks have plagued the Obama Administration of late. Mitch Daniels of Indiana is likable and pragmatic, but may be hampered by his physical stature (Americans seem to favor tall candidates) and an overall dearth of pizzazz. Haley Barbour of Mississippi is magnetic and skillful, but his history as a lobbyist is out of step with the prevailing anti-Washington national mood. John Kasich, a longtime Congressman now running for governor of Ohio, is impressive, but still lacks the kind of intense focus required to run the presidential gauntlet...
...Democratic attempts to pass a bill. The first group includes Democrats who voted for the Stupak amendment and yet opposed final passage of the House bill. There were 23 of these Democrats, mostly Representatives from Southern congressional districts, like Heath Shuler of North Carolina and Gene Taylor of Mississippi. It's safe to say that Democratic leaders shouldn't worry about which abortion language is preferred by these members because that wasn't the issue that prevented them from supporting health reform...
...plans for two more reactors outside St. Petersburg were delayed. Last August, the Tennessee Valley Authority scrapped plans for three new reactors in Alabama and delayed a fourth by at least four years. Other reactors have been canceled in Texas, Missouri and Idaho; license applications have been suspended in Mississippi, Louisiana and New York. Peter Bradford, a former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), has calculated that of the 26 new applications submitted to the NRC since 2007, nine have been canceled or suspended indefinitely, and 10 more have been delayed by one to five years. Utilities like Exelon...
Cairo, Ill., sits on a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in the heart of a region called Little Egypt for the resemblance it bears to the flat, loamy landscape of the Nile River Delta. Charles Dickens, after a visit in 1842, dubbed Cairo a "dismal swamp ... uncheered by any gleam of promise," although Mark Twain rehabilitated its image 40 years later, making it the destination of Huck and Jim's river voyage in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At its 1920s peak, Cairo was a boomtown of 15,000 people. But as river trade declined...