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Think Congress is sophomoric? A study says you're right
— If it sounds like the debates in Congress have devolved into those of teenagers, it's because they have. Discourse in the House and Senate has dropped a full grade level — to the equivalent of high school sophomore, according to a new...
Tags: Republican Party, Education, Politics, YouTube, Victor Hugo
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Congress sounding increasingly like teenagers, study says
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- If it sounds like the debates in Congress have devolved to that of teenagers, it’s because they have. The level of discourse in the House and Senate has dropped a full grade level -- to the equivalent of a sophomore in high school,...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, YouTube, Georgetown University, Justice System
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Nighttime fasting may foster weight loss
In an age of long commutes, late sports practices, endless workdays and 24/7 television programming, the image of Mom hanging up her dish towel at 7 p.m. and declaring "the kitchen is closed" seems a quaint relic of an earlier era. It also harks back...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Liver Disease, Restaurants, Diabetes, Heart Disease
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Experimental drug helps the brain recover from stroke -- in mice
Scientists have developed a “proof of concept” drug for stroke patients that helped afflicted mice recover the ability to walk normally. In laboratory experiments, the researchers also found biological evidence that the drug helped grow new...
Tags: Medical Research, Human Body, Brain, Behavioral Conditions, Placebo
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PASSINGS: Doris Betts, Norman Fruman, Stanley R. Resor, Greg Ham, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller
Doris Betts
Southern author of short stories, novels
Doris Betts, 79, a novelist and writing teacher best known for short stories and novels that evoke the geography and mores of the South, died of lung cancer Saturday at her home in Pittsboro, N.C.,...Tags: U.S. Army, Obituaries, Companies and Corporations, Awards and Prizes, Literature
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Obama emphasizes new aspects of life story
WASHINGTON — There were no silver spoons, but lots of school loans. Grandmother worked her way up the ranks at the bank. Later, it took two incomes to pay the condo mortgage and the bills.
If all this doesn't sound familiar, it soon will.
As he...Tags: Republican Party, Education, Politics, Finance, Mitt Romney
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Obama heads for campuses to urge lower college costs
WASHINGTON — President Obama will try to add the cost of college to the campaign debate this week as he travels to campuses in three swing states and calls on Congress to prevent a hike in student loan interest rates this summer. But the...
Tags: John Kline, Republican Party, Voting, Politics, Finance
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Obama addresses student debt at Chapel Hill
President Obama gave personal testimony on the experience of carrying burdensome college loans today, drawing a chorus of “amens” from a student audience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In a pitch for his latest...
Tags: Republican Party, Education, Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, Loans
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Obama 'slow jams' on student loans with Jimmy Fallon
Alternately serious and silly, President Obama weighed in on the ongoing Secret Service scandal and even "slow jammed" the news as he taped an appearance on NBC's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on Tuesday. Obama, already the first sitting president to...
Tags: Education, Mitt Romney, Loans, Jimmy Fallon, White House
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Late Night: Obama, 'preezy of the United Steezy,' jams with Fallon
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Science and the doubting conservatives
With so many scientific issues becoming battlefields in the culture wars — from climate change to stem-cell research to evolution (see above) — we hardly needed a new study to tell us that scientists have become a favorite target of the right....
Tags: Education, Conservation, Talk Shows (genre), Science and Technology, Religion and Belief
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Three UC schools ranked among public school bargains
L.A. NOWDespite skyrocketing tuition costs, three University of California schools were named among the nation’s best public school bargains in rankings published Tuesday by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance....
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