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FDA: Ga. plant knowingly shipped tainted products
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 06:53 pm PST
 AP - A Georgia peanut plant knowingly shipped salmonella-laced products as far back as 2007, at times sending out tainted products after tests confirmed contamination, according to inspection records released Friday. Full Story | Top |
Venezuela's Jews fear more attacks
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 01:51 pm PST
 AP - As President Hugo Chavez intensifies his anti-Israel campaign, some Venezuelans have taken action, threatening Jews in the street and vandalizing the largest synagogue in Caracas — where they stole a database of names and addresses. Full Story | Top |
Deal announced on emergency stimulus plan
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:51 pm PST
 AP - With job losses soaring nationwide, Senate Democrats reached agreement with a small group of Republicans Friday night on an economic stimulus measure at the heart of President Barack Obama's plan for combatting the worst recession in decades. Full Story | Top |
First US face transplant patient leaves hospital
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 02:23 pm PST
 AP - She can eat pizza. And hamburgers. She can smell perfume, drink coffee from a cup, and purse her lips as if to blow a kiss. Except that one lip is hers, and the other is from a dead woman. She is the nation's first face transplant patient, and on Thursday night, she went home from a Cleveland hospital. "I'm happy about myself," she told her doctors. Full Story | Top |
KBR gets huge contract despite electrocutions
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:54 pm PST
 AP - Defense contractor KBR Inc., which is under criminal investigation in the electrocution deaths of at least two U.S. soldiers in Iraq, has been awarded a $35 million contract by the Pentagon to build an electrical distribution center and other projects there. Full Story | Top |
Blue the hue of creativity? Red for detail?
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:25 pm PST
AP - We learn from toddlerhood that red means danger — so should we use red ink for medication warnings? And if blue signals the freedom of open skies, how about brainstorming in a room painted blue? Full Story | Top |
Obama considering at least 2 Iraq withdrawal plans
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 06:28 pm PST
 AP - The White House is considering at least two troop withdrawal options as it weighs a new Iraq strategy — one that would preserve President Barack Obama's campaign pledge to get all combat brigades out within 16 months and a second that would stretch it to 23 months, two officials said Friday. Full Story | Top |
Film, TV actor James Whitmore dies of lung cancer
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:01 pm PST
 AP - James Whitmore, the many-faceted character actor who delivered strong performances in movies, television and especially the theater with his popular one-man shows about Harry Truman, Will Rogers and Theodore Roosevelt, died Friday, his son said. He was 87. Full Story | Top |
Russia allows transit of US military supplies
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:58 pm PST
 AP - Russia granted transit rights Friday to non-lethal U.S. military supplies headed to Afghanistan but only after apparently pressuring a former Soviet state to close an air base leased to the Americans. Full Story | Top |
Bush overpaid banks in bailout, watchdog says
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:31 am PST
 AP - The Bush administration overpaid tens of billions of dollars for stocks and other assets in its massive bailout last year of Wall Street banks and financial institutions, a new study by a government watchdog says. Full Story | Top |
Fla. man issued 50 traffic citations in one day
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:26 pm PST
 AP - Elvis has left the vehicle. A man was arrested on more than 50 traffic citations — all in one day. Police said Elvis Alonzo Barrett, 46, fled from police trying to stop him for a traffic violation Thursday morning. Police said he ran through red lights, crashed into another car and a fence. Police said they found crack cocaine and a crack pipe in his car. Full Story | Top |
Nazi find sheds light on Egypt's sensitive past
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:23 pm PST
 AP - Nazi hunters urged Egypt on Friday to come clean about how much it knew about a fugitive dubbed "Dr. Death," who reportedly lived here for decades until he died in 1992. But Egypt has long kept a strict silence about former Nazis reported to have taken refuge on its soil. Full Story | Top |
Help for Paying Off Your Student Loans
Mon, 2 Feb 2009 01:27 pm PST
U.S. News & World Report - A new federal program starting this fall promises relief and hope for millions of students and recent graduates burdened with big federal educational debts. Starting July 1, those with federal student loans can ask the government to limit their monthly payments on their federal student loans to less than 15 percent of their income. Many of those who qualify for the new Income-Based Repayment (IBR) program will pay much less than that. Full Story | Top |
Mood disorders common in polycystic ovary syndrome
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 02:43 pm PST
 Reuters - The prevalence of depression and anxiety among patients with polycystic ovary syndrome is high and warrants routine screening and aggressive treatment, investigators report in the journal Fertility and Sterility. Full Story | Top |
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