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• Google and US papers trial “living” news pages

  Strategy Eye - 2009-12-08

  Google is teaming up with The Washington Post and The New York Times to trial “living” news articles which bring together multiple sources and can update and transform content as events unfold and more information is published. The new Living Stories pages, which to some extent resemble Wikipedia articles,...

  Tags: Google Inc., Living Stories, Wiki, Healthcare Reform, Channel Management, Internet, Online Communications, Healthcare, Marketing, Jasper Jackson, New York Times Co., Washington Post Co.

• A disabled Berkeley artist gets inside own head with her work

  - 2008-02-11

  APAINTING by UC Berkeley art professor Katherine Sherwood contains surprising medical content. Some of the blue-and-white swirls behind a mystical medieval symbol are not painted on: They're actually an angiogram of blood vessels in the artist's brain. Even before a brain hemorrhage paralyzed her...

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• Tilting at windmills

  - 2007-09-01

  How to clear your inbox The Small Business Administration canceled 8,000 loans to hurricane victims without notice to the borrowers. When the borrowers sought an explanation, they were told, according to Ron Nixon of the New York Times, "that they had voluntarily given up their loans," which was not...

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• Man does not live by stress alone

  - 2007-03-22

  The Washington Post recently reported that Baby Boomers appear to be less healthy than their parents were at the same age. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin found that "the trend seems to be that people are not as healthy as they approach retirement as they were in...

  Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, job, SOFTWARE, Washington Post Co.

• In Washington, It's Always the Year of the Rat

  - 2007-03-19

  Democrats have leapt on reports of mold, rats and bureaucratic hurdles at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as further proof of President George Bush's failed war policies. To the contrary, the problems at Walter Reed are further proof of the Democrats' failed domestic policies-to wit, the civil service rules that...

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• Wounded US troops tell lawmakers of deplorable medical treatment

  - 2007-03-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — Injuries, then anger and tears: for US troops, their wounds in Iraq and Afghanistan are just the beginning of a painful journey through a daunting medical bureacracy at home. US lawmakers listened Monday to stories of neglect and mistreatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, two...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, HEALTHCARE, hospital, Walter, Washington, Washington Post Co.

• DNC: The Real Newt Gingrich: Special Interest Shill

  - 2007-01-26

  To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Damien LaVera or Stacie Paxton, +1-202-863-8148, both of the Democratic National Committee WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Democratic National Committee on Newt Gingrich:As Newt Gingrich prepares to address leading conservative activists at this weekend's National Review Institute summit, recent reports...

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• Fortunately, the next terrorist attack isn't scheduled until next year

  - 2006-07-01

  You will recall that the great anthrax scare happened in the fall of 2001. Now, almost five years later, we learn this from Justin Gillis of The Washington Post: "The government's $1 billion effort to develop a new anthrax vaccine has run into difficulty, with the company in charge [VaxGen...

  Tags: Government, HEALTHCARE, vaccine, Washington Post Co.

• DNC: Culture of Corruption: TGIF Edition

  - 2005-10-07

  WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In just the last 24 hours, there have been significant developments in five separate scandals relating to the culture of corruption and cronyism that Republican leaders have brought to Washington, D.C. As a public service, the Democratic National Committee DNC has compiled this primer...

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• Schedule of Upcoming National Press Club Luncheons

  - 2005-03-31

  News Advisory: Following is the schedule of upcoming luncheons at the National Press Club: Monday, April 4 -- The Honorable Edward M. Gramlich, Federal Reserve Board; TOPIC: "National Saving." Friday, April 8 -- Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post; Anne Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt;...

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