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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
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NPR Topics: News
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NPR news, audio, and podcasts. Coverage of breaking stories, national and world news, politics, business, science, technology, and extended coverage of major national and world events.
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Bid To Revive Privacy Board Awaits Nominees
Privacy advocates are urging the Obama administration to appoint nominees to a privacy and civil liberties board that has been defunct for more than two years. Congress wants to revive the board as an independent body to protect U.S. citizens against potential transgressions tied to counterterrorism activities.
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Counting On The COBRA Subsidy For Coverage
Congress has extended the COBRA subsidy periods again and again, helping many laid-off workers keep health insurance. Still, sorting through the paperwork to get the government assistance is no easy task. And, the government subsidies expire in March unless the jobs bill passes.
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Proponents Seek To Resurrect Public Option
After a messy Senate burial late last year, the government-run health insurance plan may be back. Proponents cite continued wide support and the fact that this time it needs fewer votes to pass in the Senate.
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China's Capital Of Capitalism Weathers Recession
China is now second only to the U.S. in the number of billionaires, and nowhere is the country's entrepreneurial zeal more apparent than in the southern city of Wenzhou. The past year has been hard on China's entrepreneurs, but they are still wheeling and dealing in Wenzhou.
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Rum Money Ignites Brawl Between U.S. Territories
Diageo, the company that manufactures Captain Morgan, wants to move production of the rum from Puerto Rico to the U.S. Virgin Islands. The move would cost Puerto Rico billions of dollars in lost revenue.
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Police Commandos Crack Down On Afghan Drug Trade
The opium trade in Afghanistan is a key source of income for the Taliban. The group uses the money to carry out suicide bombings and other attacks. But a team of Afghan police commandos is working around the clock to cut off this dangerous funding source.
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Funding Halted For Virtual Fence On Mexico Border
Technical glitches and delays have put the virtual fence in jeopardy. The fence was supposed to monitor most of the 2,000-mile southern U.S. border by 2011 but now covers only a portion of Arizona's boundary with Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said funds will be frozen until a reassessment of the project can be completed.
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Holder Says Bin Laden Won't Be Captured Alive
The attorney general told a House subcommittee the al-Qaida leader would never appear in an American courtroom because the possibility that he would be caught alive is "infinitesimal." In testimony Tuesday, he rejected criticism from GOP lawmakers who contend it is too dangerous to put terror suspects on trial in federal civilian courts as Holder has proposed.
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The Real Problem With Earmarks And Congress
ANALYSIS: Despite all the talk about eliminating earmarks, don't bet on its happening. Earmarks come close to the basic notion of representative government: We want to know what our lawmaker has done for us lately.
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Plane Making Emergency Landing Hits, Kills Jogger
Robert Gary Jones, 38, died instantly when he was hit by the single-engine plane on Hilton Head Beach in South Carolina. The plane had lost its propeller, and the pilot's vision was blocked by oil on the windshield. The coroner said Jones apparently did not see or hear the plane, which was "basically gliding."
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Novel Health Plans Try To Help Uninsured
Gold Dust Saloon owner Ruth McDonald uses an innovative "three share" model to provide health coverage for her workers. The restaurant is one of 30 employers in a Colorado program that provides low-cost coverage to small businesses.
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Honda Recalls 410,000 Vehicles For Brake Problems
Honda said over time, brake pedals can feel "soft" and must be pressed closer to the floor to stop the vehicles. Left unrepaired, the problem could cause loss of braking power and possibly a crash. The recall includes 344,000 Odysseys and 68,000 Elements from the 2007 and 2008 model years.
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Finding A Home For The Homeless' Belongings
Cities have taken various approaches to dealing with property left out in public by the homeless. Many seize and destroy it, but some are trying to find ways to store and protect it.
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U.S. Youth Likely To Face Greater Health Issues
Anti-smoking campaigns have had success reducing smoking, and since the 1990s smoking among youth has also declined. However, public health messages about exercise and healthy eating don't seem to be having an effect yet. Kids are developing adult diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure.
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Tea Party Activists Rally Against Health Care
Tea Party activists held a rally Tuesday on Capitol Hill to kill the health care measure House Democrats hope to pass this week. They called their rally Code Red for Health Care, and hoped their voices would help stall the bill.
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