The New Colossus
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Influential senators working to overhaul the nation's health care system have investments and family ties with some of the biggest names in the industry. The wife of Sen. Chris Dodd, the lawmaker in charge of writing the Senate's bill, sits on the boards of four health care companies.
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Newberg argues that religious belief is often personally and socially advantageous, allowing men and women to "imagine a better future."
excerpt:"It was a small detail, a point of comparison buried in the fifth paragraph on the 17th page of a 24-page summary of the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey. But as R.
OSHAWA -- Russell Cormier doesn't consider himself a hero -- but that hasn't stopped well wishers, local politicians and media from across the country from calling him one.
White House officials last December sought to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from submitting a proposed rule that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions on the grounds they pose a threat to public welfare, agency sources said yesterday.
Out of the world's 23 largest aid donors deliver aid, the United States ranked 15th in overall effectiveness, 13th in the level of generosity measured by the size of its economy, and near the bottom, 22nd, when it came to adherence to principles and guidelines established by the …
The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion in taxpayer money to avoid bankruptcy. Even as their companies fail, Ford an …
By Timothy Gardner NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. environment regulators late Thursday rejected a permit for a new coal-fired power plant in Utah over the issue of its greenhouse gas pollution, putting in question the future of new coal plants that do not to curb their emissions.
Arguments about the merits of religions are often battled out with reference to history, by comparing the sins of theists and atheists.
It was the charismatic, ambitious and hugely talented Pompey who said to the older Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC) that more people worship the rising sun than the setting sun.
A stalagmite rising from the floor of a cave in China is providing clues to the end of several dynasties in Chinese history. Slowly built from the minerals in dripping water over 1,810 years, chemicals in the stone tell a tale of strong and weak cycles of the monsoon, the life-giving rains that water crops to feed millions of people.
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This year's ozone hole over Antarctica was the fifth biggest on record, reaching a maximum area of 10.5 million square miles in September, NASA says.
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Most of the re-opened new libraries will be housed in less space and one, in Chicago (formerly the largest regional library), will re-open without "permanent furniture and shelving." PEER notes that during the past two years, EPA further diminished its own informational infrastr …
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there's no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country.
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A federal appeals court refused Thursday to make a resistant Bush administration speed up a decision on whether greenhouse gases and global warming threaten public health and welfare.
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