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...half price, and eventually free, to struggling households in the American Northeast and Midwest. By this year, the service has expanded to more than 200,000 families in 23 states. The partisan controversy around it has also grown. Republicans grouse that taking fuel from Chávez, America's chief antagonist in the hemisphere, is unpatriotic and simply aids his anti-U.S. foreign policy. Democrats and advocates for the poor disagree. In a website video for Boston-based Citizens Energy, which helps distribute the Citgo oil, director Joseph Kennedy, son of Senator Robert Kennedy, says, "Some people...
...from the womb, and a labor-induced delivery, which can occur any time after 37 weeks and in which the baby is initiating the process. "In a vaginal delivery, that baby instigated the labor, and is therefore ready and can be healthy at 37 weeks," says Dr. Catherine Spong, chief of the pregnancy and perinatology branch at NICHD and one of the co-authors of the paper. These results also do not apply to women who go into labor prior to 39 weeks and end up having a cesarean; likewise for them, the baby instigated the labor process...
...time he was here two weeks, I could see how calm things were...He increased the confidence level." - Bill Clinton, on Panetta's debut as White House Chief of Staff, Washington Post...
Leon Panetta may not have an intelligence background, but his appointment as CIA director shows that Barack Obama understands the CIA's problems. As a former White House chief of staff, Clinton Administration budget director and eight-term California Congressman, Panetta knows his way around Washington better than most people, and that kind of knowledge is exactly what the CIA needs right...
...administration of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva seems, if anything, more determined to protect Thailand's monarchy from criticism. Thailand's military appears to share a similar mission. Late last month, army chief Anupong Paochinda reiterated that it was the military's duty to protect the royal institution and ordered his men to report any possible instances of lèse-majesté, according to local news reports. Anupong also urged battalion commanders to comb the Internet for antimonarchy material. With the military now on the case, Thailand's Internet war room just got a lot more ammunition...