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Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), the head of the Republicans campaign committee, caused a stir at last night's Rules Committee meeting when he suggested that treating female-related health conditions was comparable to insurance-company imposed restrictions on smokers. "Why should a woman pay more than a man?" asked New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone, according to the Courthouse News Service. "Well, we're all different," ...

We created the Health Care Reform Debate IQ quiz to test how much you know about the current debate about health care reform. Here's the answers! h4. Don't cheat! If you haven't taken the Health Care Reform Debate IQ quiz yet, go take it first! See answers on the next page... [page] 1) To be eligible for Medicare, you have to ...

LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri: For now, the rule is simple: Hug your running mate, kiss your wife. When Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, came out on stage to congratulate his running mate, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, after her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul last week, he gave her a hug, not a handshake. Palin ...

SEATTLE - The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace. Companies that sell advertisements online - including Microsoft - can electronically gather tidbits about Web surfers' habits, and then use that information to help decide what kinds of ads to show. However, in the newest "beta" version of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two cultural exchange trips to Europe by first lady Mary Easley and others incurred nearly $46,000 in "unreasonable and excessive expenses" as taxpayers footed the bill for items such as caviar and ballet tickets, State Auditor Les Merritt said Thursday. The Department of Cultural Resources said Easley traveled to France in May 2007 and Estonia and Russia in ...

SEATTLE — Computer makers are recalling 100,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony after 40 reports of overheating, according to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission notice Thursday. The recall applies to certain Sony 2.15Ah lithium-ion cell batteries made in Japan and sold around the world in laptops made by Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc. and Toshiba Corp. Some incidents involved smoke ...

President Barack Obama signed his first piece of legislation, and it sent a big sign of support to labor and civil rights groups everywhere—this White House believes in equal pay for equal work. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act will make it easier for employees to sue for decades-old pay discrimination. The bill effectively ends a 2007 Supreme Court decision ...

Bosses are witnessing a lot of bizarre behavior in Officeland these days. The lumpy and rumpled are showing up all spiffy and dry-cleaned. Mouthy iconoclasts are newly docile. Clock-watching slackers are suddenly the last to leave. People, it seems, are performing transplants on themselves--like the senior vice-president at a pharmaceutical company known as a terrible flirt who says she recently forced ...

All I can say is this is the 2nd company that I interviewed with in the last 6 months that is now laying off. 

Newly appointed White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers moves like Beyoncé and wears clothes like Tyra Banks. Indeed, her backless gowns and designer dresses have rendered her one of Chicago's Best-Dressed Beauties for years. Let's put that in context: Best-Dressed Executive, Board Member, Philanthropist, mother, and like many of President Obama's and the First Lady's friends and appointees, Harvard MBA. ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft's abandoned takeover bid for Yahoo appears to have culminated with a disheartening thud for those two companies but amounted to yet another coup for online search leader Google. What began in January as Microsoft's most audacious attack yet on Google instead paved the way for the Internet's most powerful company to gain even more clout through a ...

Introduction Currin Berdine An article with a title the "Top Five Jobs Immune to Recession" quickly caught my eye (think: eek, am I in trouble?) Even though only one of the fields specifically calls for an "administrative" worker, knowing this information can be very helpful for our careers. If you are looking for a job, or are considering a career change, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers slashed payrolls by 159,000 in September, the most in more than five years, a worrisome sign that the economy is hurtling toward a deep recession. The Labor Department's fresh snapshot, released Friday, also showed that the nation's unemployment rate held steady at 6.1 percent as hundreds of thousands of people streamed out of the work force for ...

Most business travelers use the web for at least some portion of their trip—whether it's planning, booking or compulsively checking the Weather Channel. But the web can offer more to make life easier. Here are a few under-the-radar sites to note. Remote file access. One of the toughest things about business travel isn't the travel part—although crummy flights, horrible hotels, surly ...

Let's see how long this actually takes to happen.

Okay...we are having a potluck at work in a few weeks for Thanksgiving. But that is pretty bland and generic by itself. So to make things more fun, I want hold some sort of "mini-event" or something with some type of enterta

BuyOnlineNow, a Rochester, MN based online office supply store, recently changed their shipping policy to ensure that all orders, no matter how big or small, will always ship for free. They hope that by adding these extra savings, they will make online office supply shopping decisions easier for their customers.

As President Barack Obama announced he was lifting a ban on embryonic stem cell research Monday morning in Washington, D.C., local researchers declared they will enthusiastically pursue the sometimes-controversial research in their labs. At the University of Miami Medical School, where doctors have been looking into the healing powers of immature adult stem cells, medical school dean Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt said ...

Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova wrote a series of heartbroken internet messages about love in the weeks before she leapt nine floors to her death. The striking beauty from Kazakhstan appears to have left no hints to her closest friends that she was depressed, let alone suicidal. But her internet poems and postings reflect an inner torment sparked by a lover, with her ...

Updated your Web browser lately? Ever? If not, you and 637 million other Net surfers with outdated, insecure browsers are inviting criminal hackers into your computer, researchers warn. Using Internet Explorer? You're likely to be one of the biggest offenders. The researchers wanted to know why so many recent attacks have been targeted at the browser and why so many were ...