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Make other changes that will increase insurance and medical provider competition, increase the number of medical providers, and put the responsibility for purchasing, price negotiating and paying for health insurance directly in the …

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Bipartisan Health Care Reform: My Bottom Line, Arnold Kling …

Have recent revelations about email dustups and some unsupported claims regarding climate change shaken your faith in science as a whole? Or are these just anomalies and human failings, and your trust in science-based actions still strong?

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Has ‘Climategate’ Affected Your Trust in Science?

There is an enormous need for an interstate market in health care policies. We should move immediately to eliminate this artificial and extremely expensive obstacle to the lowering of the cost of health insurance.

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Cool Green Morning: Monday, February 8

The President plans to convene a half-day meeting with Republicans and Democrats – with the CSPAN cameras rolling – to talk about the way forward on health care. The Note, authored by ABC News’ Rick Klein, covers politics, …

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Health Care Redux - The Note

Last month, the blog Solve Climate published a report detailing Bell Labs’ new initiative to make the systems that power the Internet more energy efficient by convening a “Green Touch” consortium composed of industry, universities, science labs and non-profits. The consortium is committed to find open-source solutions to energy efficiency, with the goal of making communications networks “1,000 times more energy efficient” within the next five years. But what interested me most about this report was a nugget buried in the middle of the text: Recently, the industry lost its battle to have the information and communication technology sector (ICT) included in the ‘Copenhagen Accord’ that came out of the two-week talks in December.

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Fighting Climate Change is a Business Model

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The battered bodies may be mending, but the minds still struggle. As many as one in five Haiti earthquake victims have suffered trauma so great with the multiple shock of lost homes, jobs and loved ones that they …

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Mental Health In Haiti: Nation Copes With Trauma

• Ability to interchange Toshiba transducers while using the Viamo’s transportation pole, thus improving productivity and flexibility while saving health c…

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PRESS RELEASE: "Toshiba Viamo Ultrasound", Now Available in USA !

NEW YORK — As the first cases in a massive battle over illnesses linked to 9/11 near trial, an Associated Press investigation has found that several of the initial 30 suits contain inconsistent or exaggerated claims about how the …

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Plaintiffs In 9/11 Health Trials Range From Bogus To Heartbreaking

President Obama has invited the Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress to a meeting near the White House to work on health care reform legislation. The meeting of the bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate will be on Thursday …

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President to Host Bipartisan Health Care Reform Meeting Later This …