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Jim Brinling's List: Headlines February 17 to the 20th

$787 stimulus package close to done deal - Feb. 13, 2009

In the headlines, 2/17. The economic stimulus package passes Congress and the next step is Presidential signature.

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- $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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- - The bill got 60 votes -- the minimum it needed to pass. Three Republicans --
    Sens. Susan Collins, R-Me., Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Olympia Snowe, R-Me. --
    voted for it.
  - transformational for the nation," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif
  - "the largest change in domestic policy since the 1930s."
  - Republican critics believe there are more targeted and effective ways to create
    jobs than the measures in the bill, including more spending on infrastructure
    and more tax relief.
  - Democrats have also countered the Republicans' debt argument by noting that
    record deficit levels were achieved as a result of borrowing to pay for the cost
    of the Iraq war and to finance a series of tax cuts -- both decisions made
    during a Republican administration.
  - 39% -- to appropriations spending
  - 34% -- on direct spending
  - 27% -- for tax breaks for individuals and businesses
GoErie.com: Satellites collide 500 miles over Siberia

In the Headlines, 2/17. Two satelites collide over Siberia.

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headlines current events NASA on 2009-02-17
- Two big communications satellites collided in the first
  crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris
  clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space station.
- NASA believes any risk to the space station and its three
  astronauts is low. It orbits about 270 miles below the collision course. There
  also should be no danger to the space shuttle set to launch with seven
  astronauts on Feb. 22, officials said
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- - The collision involved an Iridium commercial satellite,
    which was launched in 1997, and a Russian satellite launched in 1993 and
    believed to be nonfunctioning.
    
    The Iridium
    craft weighed 1,235 pounds, and the Russian craft nearly 2,000
    pounds.
Buy American Video - CBSNews.com

The economic stimulus package includes a "Buy American" clause many U.S. industries lobbied for. Lesley Stahl reports that businesses that export overseas fear foreign governments will retaliate and keep U.S. products out of their market.

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Economic Crisis Poses Threat To Global Stability : NPR

In the Headlines, 2/18. The global economic crisis is now at the top of the list of natinal security concerns. More threatening than terrorism according to Dennis Blair.

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- The global economic situation is so serious that the head of U.S. intelligence
  agencies now says it has surpassed terrorism as the top threat to national
  security.
- National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair's dramatic
  report last week — that the economic crisis is now the United States' top
  "near-term security concern" — caught some members of Congress by surprise.
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- - The global economic downturn could easily change the world. Previously stable
    countries could become unstable.
    The geopolitical lineup could shift sharply, some countries becoming more
    powerful while others get weaker. Allies could turn into adversaries.
  - One possibility is that unemployment could get so bad in some countries that
    there will be civil unrest.
  - The key factor there is the duration. Gordon agrees that a long recession
    would be hard for countries to manage.
  - Throughout history, wars have often been preceded by serious economic crises.
    World War II followed the Great Depression, for instance.
  - The steps that most need to be taken, the panel agreed, are the ones that are
    probably most difficult politically: Troubled U.S. banks, they all said, need to
    be nationalized
  - The United States should lead the way in resisting protectionist pressures
  - And governments around the world need to work together (the opposite has
    happened).
    
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  - Some analysts even say the world is going through a period of deglobalization
    after years of increasing economic integration. That's a trend that could
    aggravate international tensions.
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GoErie.com: Crusade for a cure

In the Headlines, 2/19. Inventor of a poosible cure for cancer John Kanzius dies at the age of 64.

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current events headlines Erie Kanzius on 2009-02-19
- Kanzius seemed an unlikely person to invent a possible cure for
  cancer.
- He worked for many years as a radio engineer, first for RCA,
  then for WJET-TV. But it was his background designing and fixing radio
  transmitters that led to his invention.
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- - Doctors had diagnosed him in 2002 with chronic lymphocytic
    leukemia, a rare cancer. He was undergoing chemotherapy when he began thinking
    about using radio waves to burn cancer cells.
  - "I remembered how I could stand next to a 50,000-watt
    transmitter and not feel a thing," Kanzius said in 2004. "But if I held a penny
    or something metal in my hand, I would instantly get burned."
  - It took a couple of years, but he convinced Curley and other
    researchers at M.D. Anderson and UPMC that perhaps they could target cancer
    cells with tiny pieces of metal, then heat them with radio waves emitted from
    outside the body.
    
    The cancer cells would be
    destroyed, but no healthy tissue would get burned.
  - Kanzius often said that he wanted to keep as much of his
    invention's business in Erie as he could.
    
    He
    told Jim Dible, president of the Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership,
    that it was his wish that Erie play a major role in both the human trials and
    the development and manufacture of the devices.
Foreclosure Nightmare Unfolds Video - CBSNews.com

Debate has emerged as to whether President Obama?s mortgage relief plan will actually be enough to stop the millions of homes now in danger of foreclosure in the near future. Anthony Mason reports.

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Obama's $75B Mortgage Plan Video - CBSNews.com

President Obama has unveiled a $75 billion rescue plan to help homeowners who face foreclosure or whose houses are worth less than their mortgages. Chip Reid reports from Phoenix, Ariz.

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World Of Trouble Video - CBSNews.com

Three years before the housing market crash, Paul Bishop says he warned his superiors at World Savings that many of the mortgages they were granting were misleading and predatory.

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Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife : Don't Miss : The Buffalo News

In the headlines 2/18. Buffalo man charged with beheading his wife.

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- Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the
  beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local
  Muslim community
- Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on
  Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that location and discovered her
  body.
GoErie.com: Baby's DNA key to case

In the headlines 2/18.

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current events headlines dna on 2009-02-18
- Thousands of miles south of here, on the island nation of
  the Dominican Republic, a newborn boy's blood contains the critical piece of
  evidence in a rape investigation that originated on Erie's east side.
- The results of the DNA testing will dictate the course of
  the case. A test that shows DiNicola is the father would debilitate the defense
  and almost certainly lead to a conviction.
GoErie.com: Erie County's flu cases climb

In the headlines. 2/18.

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current events headlines flu on 2009-02-18
- Influenza cases rose sharply in Erie County for the second
  straight week.
- Eighty-three of Erie County's 104 flu cases so far this
  season have been reported in the last two weeks.