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Coca-Cola anti-obesity promises include no advertising to kids
Coca-Cola is making major promises to fight obesity – ceasing advertisements directed at kids, slapping calorie counts on all its packaging – as the soda giant stares down a rising tide of concern over sugar-stuffed beverages. On Wednesday,...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Muhtar Kent, Coca-Cola Co., Weight, Obesity
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Clash of the talking points on bombings
Los Angeles TimesA terrorist attack is like a national Rorschach test. Everybody sees in it what they want -- usually something that proves a point they've been making all along. Even before the Tsarnaev brothers were identified as the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon...Tags: Immigration, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Dick Durbin, Pakistan
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5 People Glenn Beck Has Compared to Nazis
ReutersMay 08 (TheWrap.com) - Glenn Beck is accused of likening New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who is Jewish) to a Nazi at an NRA event, but it's only the latest case of what "The Daily Show" once called Beck's "Nazi Tourette's." The conservative...Tags: Barack Obama, Judaism, Glenn Beck, ABC (tv network), Germany
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Bill would ban junk food from vending machines at state offices
Proposed legislation to remove junk food and sugar-loaded drinks from vending machines at California state office buildings and on government property is intensifying debate about when the battle against obesity becomes a gateway to "nanny state" tactics....
Tags: Gavin Newsom, Local Government, Heart Disease, Politics, California Public Employees' Retirement System
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Jon Stewart accuses NRA of fear-mongering at convention
The National Rifle Assn. held its annual convention last weekend in Houston, where conservative pundits like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck railed at efforts to enact tighter gun control measures -- and, as Jon Stewart pointed out Monday on "The Daily Show,"...Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Wayne LaPierre, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin
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Hopkins announces $4.5 billion fundraising goal
Johns Hopkins announced Saturday a $4.5 billion fundraising goal — among the largest in the country — to help the university and health system address some of the world's most challenging issues, including water scarcity, education quality and...
Tags: Charity, Political Fundraising, Politics, University of Baltimore, Boston College
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Sarah Palin, NRA's backward view of guns, 'politics of emotion'
It’s been kind of entertaining to see the world-class sophistry on display in Houston at the NRA’s annual convention. The message is: If you feel devastated about the slaughters of Sandy Hook, or Aurora, or Tucson, instead of trying to...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Wayne LaPierre, Sarah Palin
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Surveillance cameras aren't all that
Video surveillance cameras have been growing in popularity for years, but in recent weeks their advance has gotten a turbo boost. After helping to identify two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, the cameras went from occasionally desirable to...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Mayor, Sports
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Stephen Goldstein: Think NRA was winner? Not so fast
The NRA has won the battle but lost the war. The best thing that happened to gun control is its defeat in Congress. Today's losers (Obama, Democrats, the 90 percent of Americans who support sane legislation) will be tomorrow's winners. Today's winners...Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio
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READER SUBMITTED: Film "16 Acres" Chronicles Efforts To Redevelop The Ground Zero Site
New BritainThe film 16 Acres, the dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in New York City in the decade after 9/11, will be presented at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain, on Tuesday, May 7 at 6:30 p.m. This will be the first...Tags: Arts and Culture, Movies, New Britain, Architecture, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Mormon Church OK with gay Boy Scouts proposal
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a message for the Boy Scouts of America's plan to allow gay Scouts: We're fine with it. The Mormon Church, which has historically opposed same-sex marriage, said Thursday that it supported the Scouts'...Tags: Social Organizations, Christianity, Abusive Behavior, Barack Obama, Clubs and Associations
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Robin Kelly wins 2nd Congressional District seat
Following Tuesday's special election victory, Democrat Robin Kelly will start a new job in Congress as the least senior member of a House dominated by Republicans. That political reality is not lost on Kelly, who said her first task is to restore...
Tags: Local Government, Mel Reynolds, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Sexual Assault
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