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Urge Congress to pass this critical legislation, which would end the practice of so-called "drive-through" mastectomies when women are forced out of the hospital only hours after invasive breast cancer surgery. Help restore patient and consumer rights to breast cancer patients and their families.Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act. You may reach your member of Congress by calling the U.S. House of Representatives switchboard at 202-225-3121.

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A national town hall meeting for students, is planned for December 15 (2:00-3:00 p.m. ET). The Secretary will take comments and questions from students in the studio audience and around the country via telephone, email, and video.

Chamber released the second in its “Leaders and Laggards” series of state report cards.

profile of each state that summarizes any restoration of education budgets by ARRA funds per program and compiles all reported information regarding the state’s use of ARRA funds per program. To summarize: over $67 million in formula grants were awarded by the Department as of September 30, 2009. Roughly 400,000 jobs have been created or saved through these formula grants. Of those, 325,000 are education jobs; the remaining portion is attributable to general public service positions.

The Department has moved quickly to award more than $67 billion in education stimulus aid to date to stabilize state budgets and save jobs,” he said. “We are now asking states to implement reform-based action items in order to get the remaining $11.5 billion. Specifically, the Department is asking states to provide basic information on the four key measures of reform

Race to the Top Grant first round will accept states’ applications until January 19, 2010.

these are the four challenges that our country has to meet for our children to outcompete workers around the world, for our economy to grow and to prosper, and for America to lead in the 21st century.

TEDxMidAtlantic-Marcus Ranum-11/5/09 How networks send stuff through all the internets / sockets / services / clients. 10 pages of code does this. We could have made it all work except from the call back thing and that's how we get firewalls acting like the man in the middle.

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Barak Obama's Kenyan father's third wife was Jewish. They had 2 sons and they are technically both Jewish. Barak's 1/2 brother is Jewish.

This is not about free trade at all. This is an entertainment industry-written bill designed to recreate the Internet in its image — as a broadcasting platform, rather than one used for user-generated content and communication. ~ Mike Masnick

found that a particular form of a gene found on chromosome 17 made some people more likely to develop PTSD.

patients older than 16, children are still at high risk for hot tub-related injuries,

the FBI has seen a significant increase in fraud involving the exploitation of valid online banking credentials belonging to small and medium businesses, municipal governments, and school districts.

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500,000 officers' Social Security numbers were printed in the Congressional Record between 1971 when the military began using them to identify troops and 1996. Moreover, digitized versions of the federal publication have been available online for years. Malamud said there needs to be a process to ensure the material has been removed from the public files. He has urged the military to inform the affected officers.