Saturday, August 15, 2009

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Home Nurse Visits: A New Health-Care Fear for Conservatives

By AMY SULLIVAN

Opponents of health reform have found a new threat: home nurse visits to low-income parents. Yet it was conservatives who championed them to begin with

Drought and Famine: Ethiopia's Vicious Cycle Continues

By KASSAHUN ADDIS / ADDIS ABABA

Still suffering from the effects of last year's drought, and struggling to get aid from recession-hit donors, Ethiopia enters another season of famine as 6.2 million people go hungry

Vulture Restaurants: Clean Carcasses for an Endangered Bird

By SOPHIA YAN

Conservationists have been opening "vulture restaurants" around the world to provide chemical-free meat to these endangered, if not exactly loveable, birds

Less Vegas: The Casino Town Bets on a Comeback

By JOEL STEIN

The casino town bet big on the real estate boom — and lost. But the rapid reset of home, hotel-room and casino prices has encouraged some in America's most optimistic city to go right back to the table

This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index

By PAUL SLANSKY

Cataloging the key events of the past week

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Swampland

By Amy Sullivan

The question of whether a public option would include abortion coverage remains controversial for a fair number of Catholics and evangelicals who are otherwise supportive of health reform

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Top 10 Mysterious Monsters

As two filmmakers from New Zealand set out this month to find the fabled and feared Mongolian Death Worm, a look at ten creatures that have eluded even the most determined of hunters

Quotes of the Day

"It has been the largest seminar in my life, and I have been the sole student."
ASHRAF GHANI,
on talking with the people of Afghanistan during his presidential campaign
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A Week After Typhoon, Taiwan Rescue Efforts Still On

By Natalie Tso / Cishan, Taiwan

With 35,000 people still stranded after Typhoon Morakot battered the island last week, Taiwan's government is trying to make up lost time for a sluggish response to the deadly storm

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