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Daniels listed in new presidential poll ... but not near the top
A new ABC News poll lists Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels as a Republican who could win the presidential nomination for his party.
The poll shows Daniels is lumped in with several other possible candidates, many of them governors or former governors. ...Tags: Politics, Mike Huckabee, Alaska, Mitch Daniels, Indiana
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Recruiting an Army of Women to fight breast cancer
Beverly Howey and her identical twin sister, Karen Duncan-Sherman, each found a breast lump in 2007. Howey's was cancer. Duncan-Sherman's was benign. The two women, now 45, couldn't have more similar genetics, and they live in the same place, Wall, N.J....Tags: Breast, Science and Technology, Genes and Chromosomes, Colleges and Universities, Diseases and Illnesses
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Reaching new heights in the Andes
Special to The TimesThe plan was simple: Drive up and walk down. It made sense, after all, to use gravity to our advantage, especially because we were traveling in the oxygen-poor air three miles above sea level. But after 4 1/2 hours bouncing over kidney-bruising roads,...Tags: Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California), Trips and Vacations, California, Forestry and Timber, Forests
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Bush Gets GOP Platform He Wants
Times Staff WriterPresident Bush got just what he wanted today from Republican platform writers: a tightly controlled, highly conservative statement of party principles that lauds his administration and glosses over internal dissent. The platform drafted by a 110-member...Tags: Mississippi, Republican National Conventions, Abortion Issue, Colorado, North Carolina
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Kerry Pulls Ad Featuring McCain Attacking Bush
Times Staff WriterSen. John F. Kerry said today he was "telling the God's honest truth" about his Vietnam combat record, as his presidential campaign agreed to stop showing a television ad featuring Republican Sen. John McCain attacking President Bush. Kerry's ad, which...Tags: U.S. Navy, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Republican National Conventions, Prescription Drugs, North Carolina
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Bush Leads Kerry in 3 Key States
Times Staff WritersPresident Bush has moved past Sen. John F. Kerry in three of the most hotly contested Midwestern battleground states despite continued doubts about the country's direction and the president's policies, new Los Angeles Times polls have found. According to...Tags: Missouri, Al Gore, Awards and Prizes, Vietnam, Wisconsin
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Could you live on $275 a week? That's Florida's maximum unemployment benefit
South Florida Sun-SentinelFlorida ranks as one of the lowest-paying states in the nation in what it pays unemployed workers. Whether you lose a $30,000-a-year job or one that pays six figures, your maximum unemployment compensation breaks out to $6.88 an hour — less than...Tags: Georgia, Broward County, Office Equipment and Supplies, Colleges and Universities, Economy, Business and Finance
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Barack Obama denies snubbing Hillary Clinton
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSen. Barack Obama today sought to quell talk that he deliberately snubbed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination for president, during Monday night's State of the Union address. Accompanied by Missouri Sen. Claire...Tags: Union (McHenry, Illinois), Politics, Missouri, Barack Obama, Florida
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Pandering to Obamaphobes
When I was a kid way back in the previous century, my favorite attraction at the local county fair was a midway amusement that everyone called "dunk the dimwit" — or words to that effect. A loudmouth clown sat on a collapsible platform over a...Tags: Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Fox Broadcasting Company, Al Sharpton, Regional Authority
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Is White House top-heavy with Chicagoans?
WASHINGTON — Does President Barack Obama's appointment of William Daley as his new chief of staff keep the White House perilously top-heavy with Chicagoans?
Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, thinks so. "If everybody...Tags: Georgia, Chicago Mayor, Colleges and Universities, Barack Obama, Education
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Barack Obama campaign raised nearly $1 billion, shattering records
Tribune reportersAs he hosted a gala celebration for some of his earliest and most loyal financial supporters Thursday evening, President-elect Barack Obama's aides released new information showing the magnitude of their feat: They raised nearly $1 billion for his...Tags: Democratic National Conventions, Political Candidates, Finance, Politics, U.S. Presidential Transition (2009)
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Mortgage market is tightening for buyers
The Boston GlobeThe meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector is making it harder for first-time and other home buyers with little down payment money to get even conventional loans, adding more troubles to a slumping real estate market. Due to a rash of defaults by...Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning, Bank of America Corp., Freddie Mac
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