Sunday, September 6, 2009

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A Shot Against Cancer: Vaccines vs a Fearsome Disease

By ALICE PARK

We get vaccinated against all manner of diseases--except the one we fear most. But that may be changing

In Italy, An Offended Berlusconi Goes on the Offensive

By JEFF ISRAELY

Derided for alleged peccadilloes, the Prime Minister of Italy lashes out in court and in print against his enemies, not sparing the Catholic Church

Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors

By BONNIE ROCHMAN

The Defense Department is hoping to use meditation techniques — and the mystique of Japan's legendary swordsmen — to toughen U.S. troops

Why Obama Won't Use the M-Word for Honduras' Coup

By TIM PADGETT

Designating an overthrow as "military" may trigger sniping from conservative Republicans but not doing so may set a bad precedent for other coup-mongers

Target Germany: A Second Front in Afghanistan?

By JASON MOTLAGH

The coalition airstrike on hijacked fuel tankers highlights both the efficacy of a new policy to protect civilians — and German troops in Afghanistan

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By KAREN TUMULTY

Maine Senator Olympia Snowe's idea of creating a public option as only a fallback if private insurance companies fail to produce genuine competition seems to be gaining currency at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue at the moment

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Top 10 Public-Service Announcements

A recent Welsh ad warning against texting and driving is a viral sensation, but it's got nothing on Smokey Bear and singing pills

Quotes of the Day

"Experimental uranium enrichment has successfully been conducted to enter into completion phase."
NORTH KOREA'S PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE U.N.,
in a letter to the U.N. Security Council. The process could give North Korea a second way to make nuclear bombs
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Why the Omens Are Not Auspicious for the Burma's Junta

By Hannah Beech

Two years after Burma's Buddhist monks marched for freedom and were brutally put down, one monastery still prays for liberation

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