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Stolen Prescription Drugs How Common Are Heists (18 March 05:02) |
| How common are stolen prescription drugs, and where does the contraband resurface?
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Proving Age Discrimination Is Harder Than Ever (18 March 04:46) |
| How a Supreme Court decision is making age discrimination harder than ever to prove.
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Credit Default Swaps Who Wins If The US Goes Bankrupt (18 March 03:13) |
| Why does anyone buy insurance policies that pay off only if the U.S. goes bankrupt?
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Analyzing Obamas NCAA Basketball Tournament Picks (18 March 01:53) |
| Analyzing Barack Obama's NCAA tournament bracket.
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Court Hears Challenge to Military Funeral Protests (18 March 12:29) |
| The Supreme Court takes up the issue of whether hurling antigay invective at a soldier's funeral is protected speech.
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The Worlds Smartest American Idol Fans A Roundtable (17 March 07:41) |
| Who cares what Simon, Randy, Kara, or Ellen think? We created our own American Idol panel, with four of the smartest judges we could find.
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Why Isnt Obama Leading Financial Reform (16 March 10:41) |
| Why is Barack Obama leaving his No. 1 job, Wall Street reform, to a single, soon-to-retire senator?
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Regina Benjamin on Childhood Obesity (16 March 06:54) |
| Regina Benjamin, America's Surgeon General, discusses the difficulty of tackling childhood obesity—and the highest peak of Mount Kilamanjaro.
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America May Truly Be In Decline (16 March 06:49) |
| Declinists have always projected America's imminent demise. For a change, they're onto something.
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Liberals Five Favorite Republicans (16 March 05:09) |
| Democrats have broken up with the Olympia Snowes and Christie Whitmans of old. But even in this polarized political moment, there are five Republicans they have learned to love.
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Lawrence Egbert Assisted Suicides New Face (16 March 04:25) |
| Despite criminal charges in both states, the head of a radical right-to-die insists his work is compassionate and necessary.
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Obamas Out Of Control Health Care Costs (15 March 10:48) |
| Obama is telling people what they want to hear about health care, not what they need to know.
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Subtle Cervical Cancer Ads Raise Questions (15 March 09:38) |
| The subtle ads for drug giant Glaxo's new cervical-cancer drugs have people talking.
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Its Chinas World Were Just Living in It (13 March 09:42) |
| The middle kingdom is rewriting the rules on trade, technology, currency, climate—you name it.
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Behind the GOP Commitment to America (13 March 09:36) |
| Sixteen years after the Gingrich revolution, Rep. Kevin McCarthy is concocting his own multipoint plan to win over America and take back the House.
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TV Review Who Do You Think You Are (13 March 04:14) |
| 'Who Do You Think You Are?' NBC's new geneaology-themed reality show, dredges up details about celebrity's ancestors. How race casts a gruesome shadow on the results.
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Michelle Obama Why Im Fighting Childhood Obesity (13 March 04:06) |
| How we can empower parents, schools, and the community to battle childhood obesity.
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How to Tackle the Childhood Obesity Epidemic (13 March 04:06) |
| American innovations in food, transportation, and technology are threatening to supersize us all.
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How Pediatricians Can Fight Childhood Obesity (13 March 04:06) |
| Doctors must do more to help patients battle the bulge.
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Tantawi May Have Been Moderate But He Was Ignored (13 March 03:29) |
| In death as in life, Westerners overestimate the influence and importance of Egyptian cleric Mohammad Sayyid Tantawi.
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Conan OBrien Tour Convenience Charge Too High (13 March 02:05) |
| An open letter to Conan O'Brien.
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Five Ways Obama Can be More Like Reagan (13 March 12:29) |
| President Obama has said he wants to emulate Reagan's political success. Here's how he can.
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The Dangerous Quest for Deepwater Oil (12 March 10:30) |
| Miles below the ocean floor lies enough oil to power the U.S. for more than a decade—and perhaps our best shot at energy independence.
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Russias Only Way to Stay Relevant Play the Pest (12 March 08:30) |
| Russia's new diplomatic strategy is cheap and counterproductive. But playing the pest is the only way for Moscow to claim relevance.
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Is New York the Most Corrupt State (12 March 06:34) |
| Don't blame David Paterson—he's just doing what New York politicians always have.
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Is South Carolina the Most Corrupt State (12 March 05:11) |
| South Carolina: We've got Mark Sanford and Joe Wilson. And don't even get us started on history.
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Does South Carolina Have the Most Embarrassing Government (12 March 05:11) |
| South Carolina: We've got Mark Sanford and Joe Wilson. And don't even get us started on history.
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Is Illinois the Most Corrupt State (12 March 04:48) |
| It's practically mandatory to indict governors in the Land of Lincoln.
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The Swamps of Jersey (12 March 04:44) |
| The Garden State's real bosses—bootleggers, cross-dressers, organ traffickers—put Tony Soprano to shame.
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Cose Politics is No Excuse for Bigotry (12 March 04:09) |
| Antigay policies can be attributed to populist, even democratic, politics, but that does not absolve their perpetrators of bigotry.
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Is Rhode Island the Most Corrupt State (12 March 04:00) |
| Rhode Island may have slightly more than 1 million residents, but its politicians have wowed political junkies by blatantly taking bribes in office, working with the mob, and serving jail ti... |
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Iraqs Rock Band Hits Hard Times (12 March 03:41) |
| Life was hard for the Arab world's best-known metal heads. Then they came to America.
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Matt Damons War Film Green Zone Doesnt Ring True (12 March 03:29) |
| Paul Greengrass's new Iraq film, 'Green Zone,' pays admirable attention to the details of Baghdad. It's the story that's ludicrous.
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Movie Review Remember Me Does It Honor 911 (12 March 03:13) |
| The new Robert Pattinson movie has an unexpected plot twist. Is it exploitative, or historically important?
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Does Robert Pattinsons Remember Me Exploit National Tragedy (12 March 03:13) |
| The new Robert Pattinson movie has an unexpected plot twist. Is it exploitative, or historically important?
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Is Louisiana the Most Corrupt State (12 March 03:09) |
| In Louisiana, the nation's most corrupt state, fraud is just good entertainment.
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Is Ohio the Most Corrupt State (12 March 02:12) |
| In the Buckeye State, even the reformers are corrupt—and the populist heroes are federal criminals.
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Why Athletes Arent Role Models (12 March 01:50) |
| Why we should stop worshiping athletes—unless they're on the field.
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What Is a Senate Parliamentarian Anyway (11 March 08:55) |
| Who is the 'Senate parliamentarian' we've just started hearing about?
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Why Hollywood Tells Troubled Stories About Blacks (11 March 05:50) |
| Why do all the films about African-Americans tell the same troubled stories?
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How Expensive Will The Obama Health Care Plan Really Be (11 March 05:06) |
| The bogus Republican claim that Obamacare is a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy.
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Sarkozy and Bruni in Trouble Not So Fast (11 March 02:51) |
| From tweets to the world's front pages, the tales of infidelity about France's first couple are too good to resist—never mind the facts.
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White House Religion Panel Gets It Right (11 March 01:33) |
| The White House panel on faith-based initiatives, a middling and contradictory group, kinda sorta got it right on religion and government.
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DC Aims to Increase Female Condom Use (10 March 11:48) |
| The underutilized contraceptive is making a big comeback thanks to a major grant. But is it enough to stop the spread of HIV?
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NEWSWEEK Debate Can Bad Teachers Change (10 March 11:00) |
| NEWSWEEK's Evan Thomas and The New York Times' Elizabeth Green discuss whether educators are born or made.
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Educating Elite Hackers and Cybersecurity Experts (10 March 09:54) |
| Inside the rush to recruit, train, and deploy a new generation of cybersecurity experts to protect and defend our digital borders.
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Does Going Green Make You Less Virtuous (10 March 05:40) |
| A new study shows that people are more likely to cheat and steal after buying green products.
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T Boone Pickens John Kerry Team on Energy Bill (10 March 04:08) |
| John Kerry and T. Boone Pickens, once fierce foes, have found a way to work together on energy legislation.
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Why Dems May Do Well in November Elections (09 March 11:51) |
| Come November, the president and his party may find themselves succeeding most by failing the least.
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Calif Governor Why Brown Will Be the Dem Nominee (09 March 10:52) |
| In one of the nation's bluest states, why is Jerry Brown the only Democrat running for governor?
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