On July 15, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate voted to override President Bush's veto of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008.
G8 summit in Japan has started with the calls for enhancing food security and reducing trade barriers on farming products. Leaders have urged to tackle the food crisis on a priority basis. UN secretary general also...
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Bottled-water bans are starting to pick up some momentum in Canada. Check out yesterday's NowPublic coverage of a bottle ban in a B.C. school district. "Workers at St. John's city hall may soon be drinking their last...
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The movie's not even out yet but there's already a longer, more gamma-irradiated, cut of the film being planned for the inevitable blu-ray release:"During an interview with director Louis Leterrier, he mentioned that the upcoming Blu-ray release of 'The Incredible Hulk',...
I can not even begin to imagine how they got there."A MAN was operated on in Hornsby Hospital with fire brigade equipment early today to remove 16 stainless steel washers from his penis. Berowra Fire Rescue officers were called to alleviate the man from his awkward...
Be careful of ladle wielding sumo wrestlers! It seems as if this blunt, almost-hollow cooking utensil has been favoured by Toyozakura, a vetran sumo wrestler who used it as a whipping stick on an 18 year old...
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Amazingly, Ford will not be providing severance for the workers it lays off. If you’ll indulge me for a moment, I’d like to make a Barack Obama-style speech: Hardworking Americans in Michigan are getting cut from...
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In a move that is certainly intriguing, Fox is planning to air a couple of its higher profile new fall shows with less commercials than normal:"Fox Broadcasting saidThursday it would drastically reduce the commercial levels oftwo upcoming action dramas -- "Fringe" and...
California's farm belt has some of the highest levels of airborne dust, smoke and soot in the country."Environmentalists say a new plan to clean up the soot-laden air in California's farm belt would fail to...
Why should the U.S. have to foot the reconstruction bill in Iraq?They're only the ones who invaded the country, waged war against the Iraqi people, tortured and killed innumerable detainees, and established an...
NC Poll: Obama's Lead CutLook for Politisite Political Projections: NC coming next Monday. We are not affilliated with PPP or Public Policy Polling. Why is this article differant? See all the data by clicking here PPP . Politisite will be in NC Live...
Harley-Davidson announced today they will be reducing their motorcycle production, and cutting more than 700 jobs over the next several months." U.S. retail sales of Harley-Davidson motorcycles were down 12.8 percent...
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. saidit is cutting about 10% of its work force, or about 1,650 jobs, andwarned that weaker-than-expected sales hurt results in its recentquarter."AMD, locked in a battle with Intel Corp. over chips known as microprocessors, said it expects...
" WASHINGTON — President Bush is expected to announce next week that Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan will be reduced from 15 to 12 months, FOX News has confirmed. A senior U.S. official told FOX...
UPDATE: 9:30 EST13 people have been reported dead and 3 are missing as a result of flooding. "Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain pushed...