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AP IMPACT: Delhi ignores own quake peril warnings (AP)

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:01:32 +0000

AP – The ramshackle neighborhoods of northeast Delhi are home to 2.2 million people packed along narrow alleys. Buildings are made from a single layer of brick. Extra floors are added to dilapidated buildings not meant to handle their weight. Tangles of electrical cables hang precariously everywhere.

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AP IMPACT: Meth fills hospitals with burn patients (AP)

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:26:07 +0000

AP – A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment — a burden so costly that it’s contributing to the closure of some burn units.

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AP IMPACT: Health overhaul lags in states (AP)

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:54:33 +0000

AP – Here’s a reality check for President Barack Obama’s health overhaul: Three out of four uninsured Americans live in states that have yet to figure out how to deliver on its promise of affordable medical care.

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Huntsman departs race, impact in SC unclear (AP)

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:48:58 +0000

AP – Days before the South Carolina primary, Jon Huntsman dropped out of the presidential race Monday and endorsed Mitt Romney for the party’s nomination, becoming the latest Republican to call the GOP front-runner the strongest candidate to beat the Democratic incumbent.

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AP IMPACT: EPA rules threaten older power plants (AP)

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:39:46 +0000

AP – More than 32 mostly coal-fired power plants in a dozen states will be forced to shut down and an additional 36 might have to close because of new federal air pollution regulations, according to an Associated Press survey.

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AP IMPACT: PSU culture explained away Sandusky (AP)

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:20:32 +0000

AP – The warning signs were there for more than a decade, disturbing indicators that Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was breaching boundaries with young boys — or maybe worse.

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AP IMPACT: More kids skip school shots in 8 states (AP)

admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:39:30 +0000

AP – More parents are opting out of school shots for their kids. In eight states now, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners aren’t getting all the vaccines required for attendance, an Associated Press analysis found.

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AP Impact: Right-to-know laws often ignored (AP)

admin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:07:32 +0000

AP – Satbir Sharma’s wife is dead. His family lives in fear. His father’s left leg is shattered, leaving him on crutches for life.

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Greenman: Nasty debate won’t have lasting impact

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:58:14 +0000

So focused were the GOP candidates on kneecapping each other, without the help of immigrant labor, nobody on the stage made a particularly compelling case against President Obama.

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AP IMPACT: NYPD spied on city’s Muslim partners (AP)

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:50:41 +0000

AP – The New York Police Department’s intelligence squad secretly assigned an undercover officer to monitor a prominent Muslim leader even as he decried terrorism, cooperated with the police, dined with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning series by The New York Times about Muslims in America.

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