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• Texas Hearing Considers Deeper Conservative Stamp on Textbooks
  11 Mar 2010 at 3:30am
  Proposed changes to the state?s social studies curriculum would portray conservatives in a more positive light.
  
  
  
• Disease Cause Is Pinpointed With Genome
  11 Mar 2010 at 6:14am
  It now appears possible to sequence a patient?s genome at reasonable cost and with sufficient accuracy to be useful.
  
  
  
• Safety Regulator Plans Closer Look at Electronics in Cars
  11 Mar 2010 at 12:30pm
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will also explore whether data recorders should be mandatory in all cars.
  
  
  
• Dodd to Offer Financial Regulation Bill Without G.O.P.
  11 Mar 2010 at 1:58pm
  A Republican on the Senate Banking Committee called Senator Christopher J. Dodd?s plan to proceed without more negotiations ?very disappointing.?
  
  
  
• E-Mail Messages Are Disclosed in Ensign?s Ethics Case
  11 Mar 2010 at 3:20am
  E-mails provide evidence of Senator John Ensign?s efforts to steer work to the husband of his former mistress.
  
  
  
• Leaders in House Block Earmarks to Corporations
  11 Mar 2010 at 12:57pm
  The ban would wipe out one of the most controversial means of awarding no-bid contracts to private firms.
  
  
  
• Obama?s Student Loan Overhaul Endangered
  11 Mar 2010 at 11:38am
  House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent an ambitious overhaul of student loan programs from becoming a casualty of the health care battle.
  
  
  
• Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools
  11 Mar 2010 at 12:50am
  The new standards, which experts said could well be adopted by a majority of states, would replace the nation?s checkerboard of locally written standards.
  
  
  
• Ben Quayle, the Former Vice President?s Son, Enters Politics
  11 Mar 2010 at 3:20am
  Ben Quayle has a familiar last name, but he is little known in Arizona. Now he is fighting to change that.
  
  
  
• Kansas City to Close Nearly Half Its Schools
  11 Mar 2010 at 12:20am
  The Board of Education in Kansas City, Mo., accepted a sweeping and contentious plan to shrink its school system in the face of dwindling enrollment, budget cuts and a $50 million deficit.
  
  
  
• Views of ?JihadJane? Were Unknown to Neighbors
  11 Mar 2010 at 5:40am
  The ex-husband of the woman who called herself ?JihadJane? said she ?was just like anyone else.?
  
  
  
• Planned Electric Rate Increase in Los Angeles May Affect Solar Power
  11 Mar 2010 at 12:12am
  Proceeds from an electric rate increase would be earmarked for renewable energy purchases and programs.
  
  
  
• Panel Urges New Look at Caesarean Guidelines
  11 Mar 2010 at 2:06am
  The medical experts told an National Institutes of Health conference that the trend of ?once a Caesarean, always a Caesarean? may be safely reversed.
  
  
  
• Obama Gets Tough on Health Care Fraud
  11 Mar 2010 at 12:12am
  The president said he would unleash auditors in a crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid waste and fraud, a move to please both liberals and conservatives.
  
  
  
• Sushi Spot Is Charged With Serving Whale Meat
  11 Mar 2010 at 3:30am
  Federal prosecutors have filed criminal complaint accusing a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica and its chef of serving whale meat, a violation of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.
  
  
  

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