Perhaps within five years, the government is likely to recommend annual flu shots (search) for every American — not just young children, the elderly and other at-risk people, public health advocates predict. The government panel that sets U.S. vaccine policy already has begun discussing “universal immunization” as a way to …
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24 November
ETA Suspected in Spain Blasts
MADRID, Spain – Suspected Basque (search) separatists detonated four small bombs in the troubled region Sunday, police said — a day after Spain’s government made an unprecedented proposal for Parliament to endorse talks with the armed group if it renounced violence. Two policemen and a security guard suffered minor injuries …
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24 November
Bush Praises New EPA Chief
WASHINGTON – President Bush, in a rare visit to the Environmental Protection Agency, pledged Monday that science would be at the heart of the nation’s air, water and land policies. Bush attended a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for Stephen Johnson (search), the first career employee to take over the agency’s reins. …
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24 November
Transcript: Rep. Jim Langevin
This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” May 24, 2005, that was edited for clarity. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We should not use public money to support the further destruction of human life. (END VIDEO CLIP) NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: …
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24 November
Cancer Fighting Device Cooked Up in Kitchen
NEW YORK – Cancer survivor John Kanzius isn’t a doctor. But the electrical engineer and former owner of radio and TV stations is now the home inventor of a possible cancer-treatment device that he built in his kitchen and is now being tested at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center …
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24 November
Eleven Oz. Premature Baby Girl Born
OKLAHOMA CITY – Her legs are no longer than an adult’s pinkie and her feet are about the size of an adult’s fingernails. Weighing 11 ounces, Kalea Lyn Allen was delivered three months premature Tuesday by Caesarean section after an ultrasound raised concerns, Dr. John Stanley said. “She’s a survivor,” …
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24 November
Timeline: Watergate Scandal
A timeline of the Watergate scandal: June 17, 1972: Five men are arrested in a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. June 20, 1972: President Nixon and aide H.R. Haldeman discuss Watergate. Later, prosecutors find an 18-minute gap in tape of that conversation. …
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24 November
Sports Leaders Want Tougher Testing Policies
WASHINGTON – The commissioners of pro baseball, basketball and hockey told Congress on Wednesday they want to toughen their steroid (search) policies, drawing praise from lawmakers intent on legislating standardized drug-testing across U.S. professional sports. In an unusual gathering of some of the most powerful people in American sports, the …
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24 November
NASA Spots Birth of Black Hole
GREENBELT, Md. – The birth of a black hole has been captured for the first time, a NASA scientist said Monday. NASA’s Swift orbiting observatory (search) detected the gamma-ray burst of the collision between two dense neutron stars about early Monday and pointed its visible light and X-ray telescopes at …
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24 November
U.N. Nuke Treaty Conference Bogged Down
UNITED NATIONS – The monthlong U.N. conference to review the work of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (search) remained bogged down in its seventh day on Tuesday in disputes over the agenda. The impasse threatened to keep the more than 180 national delegations from dealing with major issues at a time …
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