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Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have long wanted to see the money come from the $700 billion bank bailout fund, known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, and have argued against taking money from the modernization fund. Pelosi relented only after Friday's job report - the worst in 34 years, showing that the economy shed more than 533,000 jobs last month. But, having made this concession, Dems said they were unlikely to yield more ground. "This is a bad choice that we have to make. We should be able to use TARP money. The White House...
...remains a scourge in America, but new government figures show that for the first time, both new cases and deaths from cancer declined simultaneously. What's more, while cancer rates for men and women often diverge, with one group making progress while the other loses ground, in the latest report, both sexes improved. The news, however, was not as happy elsewhere. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released its World Cancer Report, revealing that the burden of cancer around the world has more than doubled over the past 30 years. What's most disturbing...
...leading cancer experts, it doesn't have to be that way. Organizations including the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Lance Armstrong Foundation joined the IARC in releasing the report and proposing an action plan to help nations control the growth of the disease. "Although cancer is a great, growing and devastating disease," says Boyle, "it is largely preventable." (Read "5 Truths About Health Care in America...
Such proactive measures would require a combined effort by governments, health organizations and citizens, both to provide medical intervention such as screenings and immunizations and to encourage lifestyle changes that help individuals reduce their risk in the first place. "This report should serve as a clear and concise reminder that we are in the middle of a growing cancer crisis worldwide," says Boyle. It should also remind us that we have the power to contain...
...main local office of the Jama'at-ud-Da'awa (JuD), a charitable organization that terrorism experts say became the legal front of the banned LeT. Soldiers entered the office after a 3 p.m. deadline for its occupants to surrender had passed. Some 30 people fled. Local residents report that they heard fighting and machine-gun fire but no heavy weapons. The army has refused to comment. Latif Akbar, a leader of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party in Muzaffarabad, told TIME that he's "very worried about the law-and-order situation. There will be retaliatory attacks [by militants...