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Gephardt, Thompson: Resetting health
The Swampby Mark Silva Dick Gephardt, the Democratic former majority leader of the House who has run for president, and Tommy Thompson, the Republican former governor of Wisconsin and ex-secretary of Health and Human Services who also harbored presidential...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Republican Party, Democratic Party, Social Issues, Richard A. Gephardt
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Obama: Student loans, free Internet
The Swampby Christi Parsons TROY, N.Y. -- President Obama today called for support of his plan to expand loan and grant programs for college students, and also embraced new federal rules coming out today that will require Internet providers to treat......Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Joe Biden, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Loans
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Audi Wants Your 'Tony Stark Innovation'
KickingTiresIn one of the more bizarre promotional tie-in contests we???ve ever heard of, Audi has announced ???The Tony Stark Innovation Challenge.??? Named after the alter ego of Iron Man, the challenge asks contestants to submit YouTube videos describing ideas...Tags: YouTube, Robert Downey Jr., Computer Networking and Internet, Personal Service, Arts and Culture
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Obama on energy: drilling, nukes and coal
The Swampby Jim Tankersley Pitching his energy and climate agenda to a joint session of Congress last February, President Obama warned of the "ravages of climate change" and asked the House and Senate to send him legislation to send me legislation......Tags: Republican Party, Washington (U.S. state), California, Environmental Pollution, Social Issues
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Obama's State of the Union: 'Hopeful'
The Swampby Mark Silva, updated with details and speech President Barack Obama, vowing a new commitment to fiscal restraint while renewing his bid for an overhaul of healthcare, called on Americans Wednesday night to repair "a deficit of trust.'' The president,......Tags: California, Louisiana, Wars and Interventions, Social Issues, Weather
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Barack Obama: 'My job as president'
The Swampby Mark Silva With a nation still "emerging from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,'' in which eight million Americans have lost their jobs during the past two years, President Barack Obama says it's "no wonder'' that "people......Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Politics, White House, Small Businesses, Career and Workplace
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Ford Opens Innovation to Public
KickingTiresGone are the days when you could count on one company having all the good ideas, or so says Ford as it opens its doors ??? or at least its website ??? to consumer ideas about car features. Under its......Tags: University of Michigan, Companies and Corporations, Education, Ford, Vehicles
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Why FAU stadium will get done and be ready in 2011
FAU Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsI just want to clarify why when one name was dropped yesterday, I knew the stadium was going to get done on time. I had predicted a while ago that it would get done when FAU decided to sell......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Texas, Howard Schnellenberger
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All the kitchen's a stage: Why Chicago breeds great restaurants and theater companies
Over the past 25 years or so, two surging art forms have elevated cultural Chicago on the global stage: theater and fine dining. Is this coincidence or correlation? I mean no disrespect to dancers, musicians or rockers, nor architects, painters, poets...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Music, Charlie Trotter's, Celebrities, Artists
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White House trying to clear the forest of 'patent trolls'
It's news when government identifies a genuine problem and takes reasoned steps to solve it. So here's news: The Obama administration has a plan to fix the broken U.S. patent system. The White House outlined the plan last week in a presentation...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Intel Corp.
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...Tags: Elizabeth Warren, Manufacturing and Engineering, Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Instrument Engineering
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Drawing insight into Google's Doodles
SAN FRANCISCO — Google.com is the most visited online front door in the United States. According to Alexa, a longtime Internet statistics firm, it is also the second most visited home page in the world behind Facebook.com; roughly 40 percent of...
Tags: Architecture, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Online Media Industry, Science, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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