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Stress, inadequate mental health care cause of US troop deaths
May 14, 2009The anti-war movement is speaking out against the death of five American GIs in Iraq allegedly shot by U.S. Army Sgt. John M. Russell May 12 at a clinic for troubled soldiers at Camp Liberty west...
Read moreTop three really bring it on American Idol
May 14, 2009Last night on “American Idol” Kris Allen, Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey, the final three Season Eight contestants really stepped up their game, making it one of the toughest nights for voters nationwide to decide who...
Read moreRecession hits Social Security and Medicare
May 14, 2009The recession has taken a big bite out of Medicare and Social Security, according to the latest reports from the trustees of both of those programs released this week. In both cases, rising unemployment, now at...
Read moreTVA sends spilled coal ash to impoverished Black communities in Georgia and Alabama
May 14, 2009Original source: The Tennessee Valley Authority has begun shipping toxic coal ash from the massive spill that occurred last December at its Kingston power plant in east Tennessee's Roane County to landfills in the neighboring states...
Read moreCheerios and cholesterol — don’t believe the hype, FDA warns
May 13, 2009If you are eating Cheerios because you believe that it will dramatically lower your cholesterol, then forget about it.
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