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Hillary’s Edge
by Gail Collins
It’s all up to Pennsylvania!Yes folks, over the next seven weeks — the amount of time it takes a normal country to conduct an entire national election — we will be obsessing about the critical upcoming Pennsylvania primary. Harrisburg! Altoona! The Poconos! Did you know that in the Poconos, some hotels have bathtubs shaped like hearts or Champagne glasses? We actually plan on bringing that up a lot. | Breaking the Nuremberg Code: The US Military’s Human-Testing Program Returns
by Heather Wokusch
The Pentagon is slated to release a suspected toxicant in Crystal City, Virginia this week, ostensibly to test air sensors.The operation is just the latest example of the Defense Department’s long history of using service members and civilians as human test subjects, often without their consent or awareness. | 'I have to be referee:' Dean urges do-over voting in Fla., Mich.
by David Edwards
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged Florida and Michigan party officials to come up with plans to repeat their presidential nominating contests so that their delegates can be counted."All they have to do is come before us with rules that fit into what they agreed to a year and a half ago, and then they'll be seated," Dean said during a round of interviews Thursday on network and cable TV news programs. | Fla. helps push foreclosures to record high
by Monica Hatcher
Florida and California, states with significant investor speculation and overbuilding during the real estate boom, helped push the percentage of homes entering foreclosure nationwide to record highs, an industry group reported Thursday.Together the two states had 21 percent of all outstanding loans but were responsible for 30 percent of new foreclosures in the three-month period ending Dec. 31, according to numbers released by the Mortgage Bankers Association. | Clinton camp targets Obama adviser saying neither candidate ready for 3 a.m. call
by David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's campaigns continued to battle Thursday over national security credentials with Clinton attempting to pin a damaging "YouTube moment" on its opponent.Clinton distributed a clip of Obama adviser Susan Rice arguing that neither candidate would be ready for the type of 3 a.m. phone call Clinton portrayed in a recent ad. A cable host asked when Obama had been in the position to handle a similar crisis. | Smoke?
by Barry Yourgrau
The NY Times just now ran a cutish feature about author Nicholson Baker, known usually as an eccentric literary miniaturist. Baker's new book however is the very uncute Human Smoke, The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization: it debunks the happy myths of the good guys in that grand good fight. | Pair of bombs kills 53 in Baghdad, officials say
by CNN
0ifty-three people were killed and 125 were wounded in two bomb attacks Thursday evening in a Baghdad commercial district, an Interior Ministry official said. A roadside bomb exploded first, around 7 p.m., in the central Baghdad district of Karrada, killing and wounding a number of people, the Interior Ministry official said. | Obama raises $55 million in February, sets new record
by CNN
Sen. Barack Obama raised $55 million in February, his campaign reported Thursday, setting a record for political fundraising in one month. The amount far outpaces the $35 million his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, raised over the same period. | State money cannot go to church school, judge rules
by Jack Brammer and Linda Blackford
The General Assembly violated the state Constitution when it appropriated $10 million to the University of the Cumberlands for a pharmacy building and $2 million for a pharmacy scholarship program in 2006, a judge ruled Thursday.In an 11-page order that can be appealed, retired Franklin Circuit Judge Roger Crittenden ruled in a summary judgment that “there is no question that the appropriation of $10 million (of) tax dollars to the university to construct a pharmacy building is a direct payment to a non-public religious school for educational purpose. |
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