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...Hampshire and Arizona, have arrived carrying guns, including a Phoenix man toting a pistol and an AR-15 assault rifle. Carrying visible weapons is legal in both states, and the protesters were not in the high-security zone around the President. But the head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence called the incidents "craziness," especially amid the combustible debate over health-care reform...
...caps or drug co-payments they can't afford. Others die because they are freelancers and don't have insurance, so they don't go to doctors. Others might not get the coverage they need because they wrote a column that called insurance companies death panels. (See how to prevent illness...
...gang is right of public opinion. When the summer meetings began, Senator Baucus refused a seat to single-payer groups, although a sizeable part of his own party preferred the option. Senator Enzi has gunned down subsidies for the uninsured, cut required minimum benefits packages, and weakened regulations to prevent underwriting against the sick. Democratic Senator Kent Conrad won’t support a public option. Even if the gang does manage craft a bill, the chances of it being acceptable to the president’s base...
...percent of fly ash is disposed of in hundreds of landfills across the country. Astonishingly, the Environmental Protection Agency does not regulate fly ash, which contains arsenic, lead, mercury, and uranium, as a hazardous material. It recommends that coal plants store fly ash in insulation-lined landfills to prevent leakage but has no mandate to actually enforce this suggestion...
...Argote also said administrators and students engaged in dialogue about the shift after it was announced, and student suggestions and preferences for the space were considered. As a result of those discussions, the space now has mobile tables to facilitate group studying and acoustical adjustments in the walls to prevent echoing in the room, among other student-oriented features...