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...climate change at U.N. headquarters that included Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao. With less than 70 days remaining before the Copenhagen summit begins, the message was unusually clear: There is no more time to waste. "The world's glaciers are now melting faster than human progress to protect them - and us," Ban told the assembled leaders...
...floor of Congress, four legal experts tackled the issue in a panel discussion at the Law School yesterday. The panel, entitled “When Medical Care Compromises Financial Health: Causes and Possible Solutions,” focused on the under-reported issue of insurance often not protecting against financial troubles brought on by high healthcare costs. “The rising cost of medical care in the United States is driving up premiums, and what’s been going on under premiums is an erosion of benefits,” said panelist Cathy Schoen, senior vice president...
...million ($147 million) for 2008-09, with the division that houses the Observer and the Guardian hemorrhaging ?36.8 million ($60.3 million), compared with a loss of ?26.4 million ($43.2 million) a year earlier, on turnover of ?253.6 million ($415.3 million) - the idea of effectively killing the Observer to protect the Guardian arguably chimed with the Scott Trust's credo. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...existing medical conditions are at a higher risk of danger than the average population, and unfortunately several students nationwide have died of complications. Advisory campaigns to supposedly minimize our risk, however, are ineffective. It’s common sense and the responsible self-reporting of symptoms that will protect us—not refusing to shake hands with people juggling clean plates...
Nicaragua's erstwhile Marxist Ortega, who calls his journalist critics "the children of Goebbels" after Hitler propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, was the subject of a special report over the summer by the New York City-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) for his government's harassment of independent media. His bill would force every journalist to be licensed and signed up with the Sandinista-controlled Nicaraguan Journalists Association, an obscure guild to which only about 20% of reporters in the country now belong...