Archive for February 9th, 2010

Senate vote shows new hurdles for Dems’ union base (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The Senate Tuesday failed to advance President Barack Obama’s nomination of a union lawyer to the National Labor Relations Board, as the debate and vote became a test of union clout in Congress.

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Senate vote shows new hurdles for Dems’ union base
(McClatchy Newspapers)

Cruise suits up for `Mission: Impossible IV’ (AP)

AP – Tom Cruise is starring in another impossible mission.

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Cruise suits up for `Mission: Impossible IV’
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Lawmaker’s death a reminder of surgery risks (AP)

AP – Gallbladder surgery is usually a very safe operation, but a powerful congressman’s death is a reminder of the known risks.

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Lawmaker’s death a reminder of surgery risks
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Honda expands airbag inflation recall (AP)

AP – Honda Motor Co. is adding more than 378,000 cars to an existing safety recall for air bag inflation problems, the company said Tuesday.

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Honda expands airbag inflation recall
(AP)

Doping lab already testing dozens of samples (AP)

AP – Vancouver’s state-of-the-art doping lab already has tested more than 200 blood and urine samples from Olympic athletes, and there have been no positives.

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Doping lab already testing dozens of samples
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IMS Health 4Q profit shrinks (AP)

AP – IMS Health Inc., which provides market data to pharmaceutical and health care companies, said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit shrank 27 percent as rising expenses and restructuring charges failed to offset higher revenue.

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IMS Health 4Q profit shrinks
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Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase (AP)

AP – Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital’s General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up.

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Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase
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Relatives in eastern Cuba say woman has turned 125 (AP)

AP – Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.

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Relatives in eastern Cuba say woman has turned 125
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