Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced his list of proposed new cabinet members. Some of his choices are expected to face resistance from parliament, which has to vote on the ministers. Iranian-American writer Hooman Majd talks with Steve Inskeep about Ahmadinejad’s cabinet choices.
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Reuters – U.S. crude prices fell nearly $1 to around $71 a barrel on Thursday on oversupply, retreating from the highest level since late June, and North Sea Brent crude briefly touched a record for 2009.
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Reuters – Whole Foods Market Inc on Tuesday posted third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, as sales rose, and the seller of organic and gourmet food items raised its full-year earnings forecast.
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Whole Foods profit tops view, shares up
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The Money Times Chimpanzees Do Die From Simian AIDS, Study Finds New York Times Chimp 099 with her daughter in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, in early 2006. She died in November 2006 from complications of a spinal cord injury. Her body was one of three bodies of SIVcpz-infected chimpanzees that were subject to post-mortem analysis … Chimps dying from AIDS-like disease, study says Chicago Tribune Chimps die from primate version of HIV Science News AIDS-like Illness Found in African Chimps Lex 18 WGME
Visit Bulgaria City and State Agree to Repay US for Improper Medicaid Claims New York Times ALBANY — New York State and New York City officials agreed this week to repay the federal government for more than half a billion dollars in improper Medicaid claims, averting a potential court battle but adding more red ink to … NY to make $540M payment for false Medicaid bills The Associated Press N.Y. State, City Pay $540 Million to Settle Medicaid Case Wall Street Journal New York settles case for $540 million Crain’s New York Business Reuters
ABC News Autistic Marine pleads guilty to military charges San Jose Mercury News AP CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.—An autistic Marine has received a three-year suspended sentence and given a bad-conduct discharge after he pleaded guilty to desertion and other charges at Camp Pendleton. Pvt. Joshua Fry of Orange County had a plea bargain … MILITARY: Autistic Marine gets three-year suspended sentence for … North County Times – Californian Autistic Marine from Orange County pleads guilty to fraudulent … Los Angeles Times Autistic Marine Pleads Guilty To Military Charges CBS 13 all 22 news articles
Reuters Flu vaccine for fall won't protect against swine virus USA Today By George Frey, Bloomberg News By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY The Food and Drug Administration approved a seasonal flu vaccine on Monday, in plenty of time to protect people against the three standard flu strains expected to spread this fall. … FDA Approves Next Seasonal Flu Vaccines Wall Street Journal Seasonal Flu Vaccine Approved U.S. News & World Report FDA approves seasonal flu vaccine Reuters Los Angeles Times
Boston Globe What's Up, Docs? Wall Street Journal Everyone in the US supports “health reform” as an abstract goal, but that mile-wide consensus is an inch deep when it comes to substance. Increasingly, however, most of the major health industry lobbies seem prepared to concede the mile—as long they … House healthcare plan to add to deficit: analysts Reuters 'Do no harm' in healthcare costs Christian Science Monitor Conrad defends CBO msnbc.com Huffington Post
AP – Chris Brown has publicly apologized for his beating of Rihanna (ree-AHN’-ah).
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Straits Times AIDS Vaccine Funding Declines for First Time Voice of America A shift in priorities is blamed for the first ever decline in funding for AIDS vaccine research. The finding appears in a report published Monday called Adapting to Realities: Trends in HIV Prevention Research Funding 2000 to 2008. … South Africa: Motlanthe's Address Puts Back in International HIV … AllAfrica.com SAfrica stops funding for AIDS vaccine research The Associated Press South Africa Launches HIV/AIDS Vaccine Trial Kaiser Family Foundation BBC News
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