BOSTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) — A former NCAA and NBA basketball player was convicted on fraud charges involving $700,000 in business loans he spent on himself, U.S. authorities said. National Basketball Association – NBA – United States – Basketball – sport
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AP – The group of Muslims planning to build a 13-story Islamic center and mosque near ground zero appears plagued by divisions that raise questions about the future of the project, with one major investor saying he is prepared to sell some or all of the site if the price is right.
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An estimated five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in either plan, according to a new report.
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Reuters – BP shifted much of the blame for a rig blast that led to the United States’ worst-ever oil spill onto its contractors Transocean and Halliburton.
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AFP – The United States appeared powerless to stop a Florida church from burning hundreds of Korans on the anniversary of 9/11 despite fears of global repercussions.
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Reuters – The United States does not plan to contribute to a NATO request for 2,000 troops for the Afghan war, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, even as the head of the alliance held out the possibility of U.S. participation.
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“The View” (WJLA at 11 a.m.) kicks off its 14th season Tuesday morning with the return of Barbara Walters (off since May because of heart surgery), although she’ll share the spotlight with another special guest — late-night host David Letterman, who will make his first appearance on the chat show. Arts – United States – Seattle Public Library – September 11 2001 – War on Terrorism
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Reuters – China has told the United States it wants to narrow differences that have developed over a range of issues, state media said on Tuesday, aiming to lay the ground for a visit by President Hu Jintao early next year.
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Through Aug. 29 Singles 1. Serena Williams , United States, 7895 2. Caroline Wozniacki , Denmark, 6410 3. Kim Clijsters , Belgium, 5325 4. Venus Williams , United States, 5176 5. Jelena Jankovic , Serbia, 5145 6. Sam Stosur, Australia, 4550 7. Francesca Schiavone , Italy, 4450 8. Vera Zvonareva , Russia, 4430 9. Li Na, China, 4015 10. Agnieszka Radwanska , Poland, 3995 11. Victoria Azarenka …
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AP – Venus Williams struggled with her serve. She kept tugging at her dress. Every bit as big a nuisance was her opponent, Shahar Peer.
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Venus wins but never finds comfort at US Open
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AP – One of the investors in a proposed Islamic center near ground zero is a Long Island medical clinic owner whose expressions of sympathy for Palestinians included a donation to a charity later shut down for links to Hamas.
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Backer of NYC mosque gave to Hamas-linked charity
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AP – The first known U.S. outbreak linked to a rare strain of E. coli in ground beef is prompting a fresh look at tougher regulations to protect the nation’s meat supply.
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Although the recently enacted health care reform legislation contains a number of provisions designed to make primary care the foundation of health care reform in the United States, one of those provisions is generating a lot of family physician interest because it calls for incentive payments for physicians who provide primary care services.
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Provision in Health Care Reform Law Gives Primary Care Financial Boost
AP – Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history.
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It likely comes as no surprise that many common household chemicals and medical products as well as industrial and agricultural chemicals, may irritate human skin temporarily or, worse, cause permanent, corrosive burns. In order to prevent undue harm regulators in the U.S. and beyond require safety testing of many substances to identify their potential hazards and to ensure that the appropriate warning label appears on a product. Traditionally, such skin tests have been done on live animals–although in recent decades efforts to develop humane approaches , along with ones that are more relevant to people have resulted in new models based on laboratory-grown human skin. The most recent chapter of this ongoing effort was written on July 22 when the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)–an international group that, among other things, provides guidelines to its 32-member countries on methods to assess chemical safety–officially approved three commercially available in vitro models of human skin for use in chemical testing. Specifically, the new guideline ( OECD Test No. 439 ) stipulates that the models can serve as an alternative to animals in tests for skin irritation, one of several human health endpoints for which chemicals are tested. Similar 3-D models were approved for corrosion tests in 2004, leaving many hopeful that soon it may be possible to the assess the full spectrum of a chemical’s effects on human skin–from irritation to corrosion–without using live animals. [More] United States – Health – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – Medicine – Irritation
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Rabbit Rest: Can Lab-grown Human Skin Replace Animals in Toxicity Testing?
AFP – Vice President Joe Biden launched a new American military mission in Iraq on Wednesday, opening up a fresh phase in a seven-year deployment that has cost the lives of more than 4,400 US troops.
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Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on February 27, 2009. We are re-posting it because of current concern about bedbugs. NEW YORK–Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite? If only . The creepy critters have become such a nuisance here that the city council is mulling legislation that would establish a bedbug task force, ban the sale of used mattresses, train exterminators, and regulate mattress disposal. Just how infested is Gotham? According to the New York Daily News , there were 22,218 complaints to the city’s 311 hotline about infestations of the blood-sucking hemipterans, a 34 percent jump since this time last year. [More] NEW YORK – New York City – United States – Bedbug – Daily News
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AP – Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has long worked to bridge divisions, be they fissures between interfaith husbands and wives or political chasms separating the United States and the Muslim world. The 61-year-old clergyman is now in the midst of a polarizing political, religious and cultural debate over plans for a multistory Islamic center that will feature a mosque, health club and theater about two blocks north of ground zero.
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This Sunday, August 29, is the fifth anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans, which touched off one of the most egregious and most publicized tragedies in modern American history. Scientific American published an article in 2001 that predicted precisely the kind of destruction the storm wrought, based on computer models of hurricane paths and storm surges. Unfortunately, politicians and engineers responsible for flood protection did not listen to the scientists who were running the models. After 1,400 people died in the wake of Katrina and the nation’s pitiful emergency response , Louisiana and the federal government convened several independent panels of scientists and engineers to propose ways to better protect New Orleans and the entire Mississippi Delta from future hurricanes. [More] Hurricane Katrina – New Orleans – United States – Mississippi Delta – Earth Sciences
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Protecting New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina