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...Congress to create an independent commission to regulate Medicare costs. Medicare, which spends more than $450 billion a year, is such a huge health care player that any changes it makes can lead the way for reforms in the private market. As originally envisioned, the new agency would essentially take over Congress's current authority to set Medicare payment rates for hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and other health care providers. It would use a process like the military-base-closing commission, whose recommendations automatically go into effect unless Congress votes to block them...
...Left Behind's focus on testing, is hoping to use turnarounds to place the focus more on "growth models," in which the most important measurement is not a single year's test score but rather whether students are improving from year to year. (Currently, NCLB requires states to simply take a snapshot of students based on their year-end standardized test scores, as opposed to tracking advancement over time...
...idea that you, dear reader, might be asked to take seriously. Not long ago, Nance Klehm, 44, a self-described radical ecologist in Chicago, invited her neighbors to stop using their toilets and start saving their poop. More than half of them - 22 of the 35 households - accepted her proposal. In three months she picked up 1,500 gal. (5,700 L) of excrement, which she'll give back to participants this spring after she and Mother Nature have transformed it into a rich bag of fertilizer. "I've sent a sample in for a coliform test," Klehm says. "There...
...juicy tale drew heavy media coverage in three countries. Knox, prosecutors alleged, was a promiscuous party girl who stabbed Kercher to death in a rage after the British 21-year-old refused to take part in a sex game with Knox and Sollecito and was sexually assaulted by a third accomplice, Rudy Hermann Guede. A native of the Ivory Coast, Guede opted for a separate, fast-track trial and was convicted of murder and sexual assault in October 2008 and sentenced to 30 years in prison, but Italian prosecutors say Knox and her boyfriend were accomplices. The prosecution...
...harbored hatred for Meredith, and that was the time when it could explode. The time had come to take revenge on that smug girl." - Giuliano Mignini, lead prosecutor, during closing arguments (Associated Press...