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Walgreens Accused Of Scamming Taxpayers, A Look Inside What's Been Called America's Biggest Pharmacy's Pill-Flipping Scheme - CBS News
In a perfect world, Walgreens wouldn't be accused of ripping off taxpayers. But we're nowhere near perfect, and Sharyl Attkisson takes a look inside the accusations that the pharmacy exploited a Medicaid loophole that cost taxpayers big.
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Are gadgets killing the internet? | Technology | The Guardian
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The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It is published today by Allen Lane. To order a copy for £18 with free UK p&p go to Guardian Bookshop or call 0870 836 0875
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Usually, we don't need strict rules, or control from on high, in order to get by.
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So it's crucial, he argues, to safeguard and to extend the chaos of life online, to resist the dominance of "tethered" gadgets, and to oppose attempts to end net neutrality, which prevents broadband carriers to privilege certain applications or content online.
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The book tells how the town of Drachten, in the Netherlands, decided to experiment by abandoning road signs and traffic lights. Free of rules, people took more care and co-operated better; traffic flowed more smoothly. They took responsibility for the functioning of the system. Wikipedia, which Zittrain sees as a beacon of the internet's best future, seems to work for the same reason.
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In Zittrain's eyes, however, those calling for more control of the web are making the same mistake as those of us who flock to "tethered" gadgets, fleeing from freedom when the real solution lies in even more freedom.
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Although Zittrain is an evangelist for the "generative" world, that inventiveness, he was explaining, has a sinister side — especially now that so many people have access to cheap cameras and video recorders.
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The Future Of The Internet And How To Stop It is a densely-argued, sometimes overstated book
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Zittrain envisages a "portability policy" for personal data: if we're going to give so much of our data — lucrative, exploitable data — to privately-run enclaves on the web, shouldn't we have the right to move it, easily and at will, from site to site?
SME Toolkit - Management Control
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Organizational
Mapping allows you to effectively and efficiently define the tasks within your
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Following these activities, the Time Planning Schedule allows
you to assign the work to each key employee on a weekly basis and agree with
him or her on the feasibility and priority of the various tasks. Through a
brief mutual review at the end of the week, you can quickly evaluate what was
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A Functional Time Use Analysis
form helps you to determine who is presently doing what in your company, and
how long it takes. Once this has been determined, analyze and organize the
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The work
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? As you set up the task assignments, identify
the ways that you will clearly be able to determine whether or not they are
being accomplished. This is important not only in the general sense of running
your business and making sure that things are staying on track, but is critical
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For starters, create your own organizational chart to show all
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corporations have many top-level officials who are each assigned responsibility
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will show these various functional responsibilities through titles such as vice
presidents of marketing, production, finance, personnel, planning, and others.
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Functional
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The key to successful
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how you will know when it's done.
Memento Mori, by Dan Meinwald
The tradition of photographing the dead.
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After six years, singer R. Kelly to go on trial - CNN.com
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Although he won a Grammy in 1997 for the gospel-like song "I Believe I Can Fly," his biggest hits are sexually charged songs like "Bump N' Grind," "Ignition" and his current single.
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Despite his legal troubles, Kelly -- who rose from poverty on Chicago's South Side to become a superstar singer, songwriter and producer -- still retains a huge following, and his popularity has arguably grown since being charged in 2002.
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Documents show Kelly secretly married the singer Aaliyah in 1994, when she was 15
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In 2003, Kelly was arrested in Florida on child pornography charges after investigators said they found photos of him having sex with a girl. Charges were dropped after a judge ruled detectives illegally seized the photographs from a digital camera in his home.
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Kelly has settled three lawsuits accusing him of having sex with underage girls, filed in 1997, 2001 and 2002. In the third suit, the woman claimed that she began having sex with Kelly when she was 16, and that he forced her to have an abortion.
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It is unclear whether prosecutors have asked -- or would be allowed -- to tell jurors about accusations that Kelly allegedly had sexual relations with other minors, because some of the trial proceedings have been kept secret by the judge.
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Police and prosecutors said their investigation, including interviews with about 50 witnesses, determined Kelly and an underage girl were on the tape, and that FBI forensics experts had determined the tape was authentic.
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The 41-year-old Kelly, whose first name is Robert, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. But Kelly -- one of urban music's biggest stars, and a consistent hitmaker despite his legal woes
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Prosecutors, though, will have a unique challenge: The alleged victim, now 23, says it wasn't her. And Kelly's attorneys -- including Ed Genson, who often represents the rich and famous -- haven't admitted it's Kelly in the video.
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But after six years of repeated delays, jury selection is set to begin Friday in the Grammy-winning R&B singer's trial on child pornography charges, prompted by a videotape allegedly showing Kelly having sex with a girl as young as 13.
CNN.com - U.N. decries peacekeeper sex abuse - May 31, 2005
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Asked if this policy would be introduced into all missions, Guehenno said it should be left up to the leadership of each mission.
"In Congo we had a very bad situation that needed to be addressed by very drastic measures," he said. "In general this is a policy that needs to be looked at on a case-by-case basis."
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After reports of widespread sexual abuse of civilians by members of the large U.N. mission in the Congo,
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Asked after the meeting what areas the United Nations was concerned about, Guehenno said it would "have to watch with particular attention" Liberia and Haiti, places where troops were in "broken societies."
He added there was "no mystery" in guessing where the problem would next surface. "When you have a big deployment, the risks are higher than when you have a small deployment," he said.
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The head of U.N. peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno, warned the Security Council on Tuesday that "the number of allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse will probably increase, not decrease" as the United Nations started to take greater action on the problem.
The warning that things will get worse before they get better has become a common theme among U.N. officials addressing the problem of sexual abuse among peacekeepers.
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The report also proposed financial accountability for those who father children -- including the establishment of a trust fund for children and the docking of pay.
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A report in March based on analysis by Jordan's U.N. ambassador, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, spelled out for the first time ways to combat the problem of sexual abuse in peacekeeping missions.
The recommendations included:
-- Setting uniform standards of conduct for all national contingents;
-- Publishing peacekeeping rules in the languages of the troops;
-- Investigating allegations by professionals using modern forensic methods such as fingerprinting, blood testing and DNA testing;
-- And a permanent professional investigative capacity, including professionals with experience in investigating sex crimes, "especially those involving children," and courts-martial conducted in the countries where the crimes are alleged to have occurred.
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The 15-member security council also noted that these "unacceptable" acts of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by a few have compromised the professional work of the entire U.N. peacekeeping personnel.
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UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council has condemned acts of sexual exploitation by U.N. peacekeeping troops, and thrown its support behind a U.N. report on eliminating sexual exploitation in peacekeeping operations.
Huckabee: Politicization of rape victims' deaths 'heartbreaking' - CNN.com
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The letters detailed his past actions and pleaded that he remain incarcerated.
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"I feel that if he is released it is only a matter of time before he commits another crime and fear that he will not leave a witness to testify against him the next time," one victim wrote. She described how DuMond had raped her at knifepoint.
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Documents posted on the Web site The Huffington Post indicate Huckabee received letters from several victims of DuMond before his release.
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Huckabee said Wednesday his discussion with the parole board in 1996 was a general discussion about clemency, not about the DuMond case.
But a former Huckabee aide, Butch Reeves, tells CNN that the DuMond case was discussed during the meeting with the parole board, but that it was the board members who asked Huckabee about the case.
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Huckabee noted that the three board members who said they were pressured were appointed to the board by Democrats Clinton and Tucker.
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However, Charles Chastain, a parole board member at the time, told ABC News he felt pressure from Huckabee when the board considered DuMond's parole in 1996, and the Arkansas Times reported in 2002 that two other board members said they were influenced by Huckabee to parole DuMond.
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Huckabee said it was the decision by former Arkansas Govs. Bill Clinton and Jim Guy Tucker that made DuMond eligible for parole, and Huckabee declined to reduce DuMond's sentence further.
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Huckabee said he had considered granting DuMond clemency in 1996, but he dropped the idea in response to public outcry and because he wanted to ensure DuMond was supervised when he was released from prison.
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In 1996, Huckabee, during his first term as Arkansas governor, expressed support for the parole of DuMond in a letter to him.
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The case of the rapist, Wayne DuMond, began in 1985, when he was accused of raping a 17-year-old girl. He was later convicted and sentenced to a life term.
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"There are families who are truly, understandably and reasonably, grief stricken," Huckabee told CNN. "And for people to now politicize these deaths and to try to make a political case out of it rather than to simply understand that a system failed and that we ought to extend our grief and heartfelt sorrow to these families, I just regret politics is reduced to that."
CNN.com - Testimony on sex abuse victim behavior heard - Mar 21, 2005
Expert testifies to process of obtaining information from sexual abuse and sexual assault victims, explaining and clarifying what may seem confusing behavior on their part.
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Urquiza also said that victims might have a sincere level of affection for their abuser, viewing the sexual abuse as a disliked part of a relationship they otherwise value. He said an abuser commonly uses special attention or favors, and threats of consequences, to keep a victim from coming forward.
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Abusers also commonly try to lessen a victim's sexual inhibitions by making lewd comments or showing sexually explicit material, Urquiza said.
"What starts as innocuous gradually increases, desensitizing the child to sexuality," he said.
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He also acknowledged that he twice told a dean at his school that nothing sexual happened between him and Jackson. He explained that he lied because he was embarrassed and was being teased by other students, who saw him holding hands with Jackson in a television documentary.
Urquiza said such denials would not be unusual, adding that male sexual assault victims face the added problem of being exposed to ridicule because of the perception that they might be gay.
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Urquiza, a psychologist from the University of California-Davis who said he has evaluated more than 1,000 child sexual assault victims, said they are likely to disclose details in a series of statements that are "not likely to be consistent."
"It's better to think about it as a process," Urquiza testified. A victim's disclosure about what happened is often delayed, then starts out vague and changes over time.
Urquiza said children aren't consistent with times and dates because they are not attentive to such information in the same way adults are.
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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Changing stories and fuzzy details on specific dates are consistent with the way children who are victims of sexual abuse behave, an expert testified Monday at the Michael Jackson trial.
CNN.com - Florida Senate eyes tougher sex offender law - Apr 20, 2005
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The bill also would make it a third-degree felony in Florida to harbor a sex offender.
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The legislation also comes less than three days after authorities in Ruskin, Florida, found the body of 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde in a pond Saturday.
Sex offender David Onstott, who previously dated the girl's mother, told authorities he choked the teen and dumped her body in the pond on April 10, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said.
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The bill would punish the molestation of children under 12 with a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life, "followed by probation or community control for the remainder of the person's natural life and subject to a system of active electronic monitoring."
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On a 118-0 vote, the House passed legislation that would require longer prison sentences, lifetime probation and electronic monitoring for sex offenders convicted of crimes against children.
CNN.com - Congress gets Lunsford legislation - Apr 21, 2005
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"The reason we're here is because of a little girl who was 9 years old and lived in Florida," Poe said.
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Rep. Ted Poe, a Republican Congressman from Texas, has introduced legislation that would make the FBI's database of sex offenders available to the general public, Brown-Waite said.
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The Florida Senate is now considering a bill, also called the Jessica Lunsford Act, that would impose longer sentences and tougher penalties for convicted sex offenders. It would mandate that, after their release, the offenders be electronically monitored for the rest of their lives. The Florida House unanimously approved a similar bill Tuesday. (Full story)
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The bill is currently in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, according to a congressional bill-tracking site. Brown-Waite said 43 lawmakers have signed on.
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Currently, states are supposed to send sex offenders an annual mailer with an address verification form.
Under the Jessica Lunsford Act, states would be required to send the mailers semiannually and at random times, so offenders don't know when to expect them.
For those who do not answer the mailers, the legislation would increase penalties to imprisonment and a $100,000 fine. Any offender who fails twice to register with a state or fails more than once to answer a mailer would be required to wear an electronic ankle monitor.
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"While individual states have passed legislation targeting sexual offenders and predators, I feel that we need to have strong federal guidelines for states to follow."
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Members of Congress on Thursday were introduced to legislation that would require states to keep closer tabs on convicted sex offenders not behind bars.
CNN.com - Teen pushes change in youth sex offender laws - Jun 9, 2005
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In an aside to child victims, she advised, "stand up to your abusers. Abuse does not have to affect your whole life. If I can overcome the hurt and trauma, then so can you."
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Amie, her father Mark Zyla and supporters, took their fight to the state Legislature in January after seeing 23-year-old Joshua Wade, the man convicted of assaulting her nine years ago, on local news as a suspect in a similar crime.
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Wisconsin's law requires police chiefs and sheriffs to assess the public risk of each person on the registry whose offenses occurred as juveniles and notify the community about those considered likely to re-offend.
Rep. Mark Green, R-Wisconsin, plans to introduce federal legislation similar to Wisconsin's law.
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Critics say opening the records of juvenile offenders would scar them and diminish chances for rehabilitation.
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"The simple truth is that juvenile sex offenders turn into adult predators. Kids all over the country need the same kind of protection as in Wisconsin," she told the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A teenage girl who was abused as a child and convinced Wisconsin lawmakers to make public the records of juvenile sex offenders, urged Congress Thursday to create similar federal regulation.
Jeffs follower charged with rape of child bride - CNN.com
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Wall agreed to be identified publicly as the trial ended in hopes of encouraging other women who feel trapped by polygamy to come forward.
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Her pleas to church leaders to end the marriage were ignored, and Jeffs told her to submit "mind, body and soul" to her new husband, Wall told the jury.
Her sisters testified that most of the women in the family also opposed the marriage but were powerless to stop it.
Incest father was 'tyrant,' police say - CNN.com
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Watch a former tenant describe loud noises from the cellar »Investigators are also questioning the 100 people who rented rooms in the house from Fritzl over the years.
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The daughter of a former employer of Fritzl backed up the reports.
"He was hired even though he had a record," said Sigrid Reisinger, who heads the Amstetten construction material firm Zehetner and whose father employed Fritzl there from 1969-71.
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Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten daily carried an excerpt of what it said was a 1967 court record found in the state archives in Linz, in which a Josef F. was accused of breaking into the apartment of a 24-year-old nurse and raping her.
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Media reports suggest Fritzl was arrested in the 1960s in Linz and may have served prison time.
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Authorities say they expect to receive the alleged abuser Josef Fritzl's old court records early next week that Austrian media say document a 1967 rape allegation.
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The Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter in a dungeon cellar for 24 years may have started sexually abusing her when she was as young as 12, the chief investigator told The Associated Press Saturday.
U.S. Marine guilty of 'wrongful sexual contact' in Japan - CNN.com
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Two years ago, a U.S. civilian military employee was jailed for nine years for raping two women.
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Anti-American sentiment boiled over in 1995, after three American servicemen were convicted in the kidnapping and gang rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl.
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Staff Sgt. Tyrone Luther Hadnott, 38, was charged last month with the rape of a child under 16, abusive sexual contact with a child, making a false official statement, adultery and kidnapping, the military said.
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The case is similar to a recent alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl involving a U.S. Marine on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. That case sparked outrage and stirred memories of an earlier rape committed by U.S. servicemen.
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Dean also was found guilty of conspiracy to commit indecent acts and two minor charges. He was acquitted of conspiracy to kidnap or rape.
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Japanese authorities investigated but decided in November not to file charges.
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Dean is among four Marines under court-martial in the case. The others are Sgt. Lanaeus J. Braswell, 25; Gunnery Sgt. Carl M. Anderson, 39; and Gunnery Sgt. Jarvis D. Raynor, 34, the military said.
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A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 19-year-old Japanese woman last year was found guilty Thursday of "committing wrongful sexual contact and indecent acts," the U.S. military said, but he was acquitted of rape.
Think Progress » Gore: It Is ‘Obscene’ That Bush Has Dismissed ‘George Washington’s 200-Plus Year Prohibition On Torture’
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Exit Stage Left Says:
the_svedberg Says:
4) why are the same folks who were screaming about a new ice age 30 years ago all of a sudden crying about global warming?Every once in a while you should turn off Jerry Springer and tune into the Discovery Channel. Some scientists believe that when global warming melts the polar ice caps in sufficient amounts, the massive fresh water infusion into the North Atlantic will interfere with the flow of salt water in the Gulf Stream. This would cause a cooling of the planet at some point, and some believe this was one of the root causes of the last ice age.
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John Ashcroft said that history would judge the Bush administration harshly for this discussion of torture. Look at Bush’s position on turture: just how close can we get to torture and still get away with it???
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And these kinds of outrages — a president saying that he has the right to overturn George Washington’s 200-plus year prohibition against torture and torture anyone he wants, with his assistants gathered in the basement of the White House, according to recent revelations, personally reviewing the kinds of torture techniques being used prisoner by prisoner — it’s obscene!
Mecury Teeth Fillings Pose Risk to Some - AOL News
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Other options include glass cement
and porcelain as well as other metals such as gold, but they
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Fewer patients have been opting for mercury fillings in
recent years, instead choosing lighter options such as
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"We do believe that the agency will ask for the label to
indicate that mercury is an ingredient in the filling, and that
special populations should be exempt from such fillings, such
as: nursing women, pregnant women, young children, and
immunocompromised individuals," Smolinski wrote in a research
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While the FDA previously said various studies showed no
harm from mercury fillings, some consumer groups contend the
fillings can trigger a range of health problems such as
multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. In 2006, an FDA
advisory panel of outside experts said most people would not be
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WASHINGTON (June 5) - Silver-colored metal dental fillings
contain mercury that may cause health problems in pregnant
women, children and fetuses, the Food and Drug Administration
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WASHINGTON (June 5) - Silver-colored metal dental fillings
contain mercury that may cause health problems in pregnant
women, children and fetuses, the Food and Drug Administration
said on Wednesday after settling a related lawsuit.
Disinfectant Wipes Can Spread Superbugs - AOL News
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The researchers found that many health care workers cleaned
multiple surfaces near patients, such as bed rails, monitors
and tables with a single wipe and risked sweeping the
infections around rather than cleaning them up.
"We found that the most effective way to prevent the risk
of MRSA spread in hospital wards is to ensure the wipe is used
only once on one surface," Williams said. -
Disinfectant wipes routinely used in
hospitals may actually spread drug-resistant bacteria rather
than kill the dangerous infections, British researchers said on
Tuesday.
