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Food-safety fix starts at FDA
Tribune NewspapersThe Obama administration took the first steps toward modernizing the nation's faltering system for protecting the food supply on Tuesday by announcing new regulations to curb the spread of salmonella in eggs and naming a new food watchdog at the Food...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Agriculture, Health Organizations, Salmonella Infection, Health and Safety at School
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It wouldn't kill you to lose a few pounds -- or would It?
Special to The Washington PostThese days it seems our entire way of life is predicated on the belief that being overweight is terrible for you. We're waging war against the obesity epidemic, which public health experts call one of the great threats to our society. Countless diet books...Tags: Bacon, Diabetes, Physical Exercise, Clubs and Associations, Sociology
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New food safety standards for eggs, meat, vegetables being adopted by Obama administration
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is trying to make Americans' food safer after recent recalls of popular products like peanut butter and cookie dough. A food safety working group established by President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the...Tags: Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Standards, Agriculture, Health Organizations, Tomatoes
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Social Security fundfaces depletion
KIPLINGER NEWS SERVICEYou can debate whether life is just beginning or you are over the hill when you reach the big four-oh. But if you're 39, you've got another worry: Social Security . The 2009 Social Security trustees' report shows that by 2016, tax revenues flowing...Tags: State Budgets, Social Security, Medicare, Retirement, Wages and Pensions
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Health-care reform: Barack Obama's plan may cost blue states more than red states
Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- When Congress decides how to pay for President Barack Obama's signature health-care initiative, some of his strongest political bastions may be footing a heavy bill. And in a political irony, states that went for Obama's rival, Sen. John...Tags: Insurance, Economic Policy, Health Insurance, Healthcare Policies, Employers
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Mother of teenage survivor tells of hearing from daughter after crash
Ernice Beasley answered the phone at her Northwest Washington home Monday afternoon to the terrified screams of her 14-year-old daughter. "Mommy, I'm dying! Mommy, the train just crashed!" Lanice Beasley shouted as she lay covered with debris, unable...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Transportation Accidents, Health and Safety at Work, Howard University
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Anti-Semitism: return of a perennial horror
The murder of a guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington last week was a tragedy. But it's also a reminder of anti-Semitism's return.
The museum is a memorial to, and tells the story of, the greatest spasm of anti-Semitic...Tags: Passover, Gaza Crisis (2008), Purim, Murder, Holidays
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Secretary Clinton Fractures Elbow
The Associated PressSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has fractured her right elbow. The State Department says Clinton was on her way to the White House Wednesday afternoon when she fell and injured her elbow. The secretary was treated at The George Washington...Tags: Hillary Clinton, The White House
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Hillary Clinton Fractures Elbow In Fall
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fractured her right elbow during a fall Wednesday, her chief of staff said.
Clinton was on her way to the White House when she fell and injured her elbow, chief of staff Cheryl Mills said in a statement...Tags: The Associated Press, Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie, The White House
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Clinton Has Successful Surgery On Broken Elbow
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has had successful surgery to repair a fractured right elbow. The State Department says she's expected to make a full recovery.
Clinton injured herself in a fall at the State Department on...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie, The White House
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FrancEyE dies at 87; prolific Santa Monica poet
Frances Dean Smith, a Santa Monica poet known as FrancEyE who was inspired by Charles Bukowski, lived with him and had a child with him in the 1960s, has died. She was 87. Smith, who had been living in a nursing home in San Rafael, Calif., died June 2 at...Tags: Santa Monica, Garden Grove, Celebrity Mothers, Newspaper and Magazine, Death and Dying
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$177M Kennedy Airport project aims to reduce delays
keith.herbert@newsday.comAn eight-year, $177-million project to reduce some of the nation's worst flight delays is under way at Kennedy Airport, where plans call for widening runways and adding and extending taxiways so aircraft can move more nimbly, according to aviation...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Local Authority, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Regional Authority, Air Transportation
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