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...legislators announced they had reached an agreement to close the state's $26.3 billion budget shortfall. The deal employs a combination of shifted funds, massive borrowing and more than $15.5 billion worth of cuts to major government programs. Comparing the budget sessions to a "suspense movie," Schwarzenegger thwarted a request by state Democrats to raise taxes and said the $12.9 billion hike in February was enough. Having issued some $680 million in IOUs and put nearly every member of the state workforce on a mandatory three-days-a-month furlough program, California plans to save an additional $1.2 billion...
...wants to set her children free. Already in Oregon, one-third of those who chose assisted suicide last year cited the burden on their families and caregivers as a reason. A study in the Netherlands found that one in four doctors said they had killed patients without an explicit request--including one doctor who believed that a dying Dutch nun was prevented from requesting euthanasia because of her religion, so he felt the just and merciful thing to do was to decide...
...months ahead as U.S. troops are deployed to reclaim territory from the Taliban and block the insurgent offensive. In fact, the Washington Post reported July 31 that General Stanley McChrystal, the commander appointed by Obama to try to reverse the Taliban's remarkable comeback in Afghanistan, is likely to request further U.S. reinforcements beyond the extra 21,000 troops the President approved in the spring. McChrystal reportedly also hopes to nearly double the size of the Afghan security forces, although the Afghan government is unlikely for the foreseeable future to be in a position to pay an army...
...conflict. Rasmussen, 56, spent eight years in Copenhagen's top office, most notably shepherding Denmark through the Muslim cartoon uproar of 2005 - which he called the nation's greatest crisis since World War II. An avid Facebook user, Rasmussen recently visited a special-needs classroom following an online request from the teacher, a Facebook friend. To be successful in Brussels, he'll need the support of plenty of real-world allies, as well. (Read: "Why Pakistan Balks at the U.S. Afghanistan Offensive...
However, the database is maintained so that it can be reviewed in Amber Alert cases or mined for leads in certain criminal cases. For example, if a detective in a bank-robbery case has a partial license-plate number, he or she can request a review of scans in the vicinity of the crime. Gomez says the request must go through well-defined channels and protocols; investigators cannot simply call up the data independently...