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Hideous rodent may provide cure for cancer

Naked mole rats are unique in many ways. For one, they're the only mammals with a hive mind, obeying their queen as if they were ants. Also, they feel no pain, an adaptation still not fully understood

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Obama’s foreign policy report card

You'd never know it from the mainstream media, but he deserves high grades for his work so far in Iran, Iraq and Pakistan.

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G.O.P. introduces house resolution honoring tea party protesters

Republican Reps. Eric Cantor and Joe Wilson introduced a resolution Tuesday afternoon honoring the demonstrators who marched in “tea party” protests in Washington on Sept. 12, Talking Points Memo reports.

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New IRS unit designed to target super-rich

Offshore tax shelter? Check. Income hidden from tax authorities?

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The stats are in: no global cooling

The idea that the world is now cooling has been repeated in opinion columns, talk radio, pundit television and more. After a poll was released last week indicating that only 57 percent of Americans now believe there is strong scientific evidence for global warming, which is down from 77 percent in 2006, Seth Borenstein from the Associated Press decided to check out what the statistics are really saying about global warming or cooling.

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The tax breaks that ate America

Oct. 26, 2009 | Here's the latest bold new idea for reconciling the costs of national defense with the need to avoid adding to federal deficits or raising taxes

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Scientologists convicted of fraud

A French court has convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud, but stopped short of banning the group from operating in France. Two branches of the group's French operations and its leader in France have been fined, reports say

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RNC mailer designed to look like census survey misleading

Michele Bachmann may be raising outlandish fears about the Census — but Michael Steele's operation seems to be more than happy to associate its political efforts with the national survey. The Republican National Committee is sending a mailer to GOP voters that aims to gather information and raise money.

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Report: Current health care system wastes up to $850 billion annually

According to a report by Thomson Reuters, the American health care system wastes between $505 billion and $850 billion every year, which is up to a third of the nation's total health care costs. “America's health care system is indeed hemorrhaging billions of dollars, and the opportunities to slow the fiscal bleeding are substantial,” said the report, which was completed by Thomson Reuters' vice president for health care analytics.

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This Week On Embedded – Ben Harper, Nick Harmer from Death Cab and Fleet Foxes – Promo

This week on Embedded, Ben Harper, Nick Harmer from Death Cab For Cutie and Fleet Foxes. Embedded

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