Russia and China blocked a new UN Security Resolution on the crisis in Syria.

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Having long been a beacon for women’s health and for cancer advocacy, the Komen foundation seems to have shamefully succumbed to the ignorance of zealotry, which has no place in the world of cancer.
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A Detroit husband and wife who have spent months worrying that they might be evicted from their home of 22 years received word on Tuesday morning and learned they will be able to stay.

William and Bertha Garrett, who have lived on Pierson Street in Detroit for more than two decades, have been fighting their bank foreclosure for more than a year. They attempted to buy back their home with no success — until this week, they said.

Two weeks ago the couple got formal notice of an eviction. On Monday, a contractor attempted to place a Dumpster on the Garrett property, a step required before an eviction can take place, according to city code.

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Where is Yogi Berra when we need him? There is Iran going back to its old game plan, threatening to ban oil exports. This time shipments of oil to Europe in its head to head with European consumers who are readying their own import embargo on deliveries of Iranian oil, given the standoff on Iran’s nuclear program.

In retaliation, Iran’s Parliament is now working on a plan to stop Iran’s on going oil exports to Europe forthwith in retaliation for Europe’s embargo scheduled to become effective July1st. (“Iran Says It May Cut Off Its Oil Exports to Europe” New York Times 01.27.12).

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WASHINGTON–Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn’t yet capable of destroying Iran’s most heavily fortified underground facilities, and are stepping up efforts to make it more powerful, according to U.S. officials briefed on the plan.

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CHICAGO — About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate.

HPV – human papilloma virus – is increasingly recognized as a major cause of oral cancers affecting the back of the tongue and tonsil area. Smoking and heavy drinking are also key causes.

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Of the films I saw on Monday, the two I liked the best were About Face, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ documentary about supermodels of yesteryear, and Save the Date, a bittersweet tale of young adult romance.
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It’s time for Congressional leaders to use the learning experience of the SOPA/PIPA debate to throw off their generational blinders and find a way to concede power gracefully to a new generation with new ideas.
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Newt Gingrich is feeling it. Having slugged his way to the lead for the second time, the former House speaker spies victory in South Carolina, a win he has said repeatedly will “make history” and, ultimately, hand him the Republican nomination for president.

The former boast seemed as fanciful as Gingrich’s Mars program a week ago. Today, it’s conventional wisdom.

In Orangeburg on Friday, speaking to a two-room overflow crowd in a shopping mall, Gingrich held up and knocked down the gallery of elitist thugs he holds responsible for the wayward course of America: “anti-religious judges,” “academic journalists,” bureaucrats, Hollywood and, of course, “Obama” — Gingrich never calls him “President Obama.”

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GOP leaders announced Thursday that they had chosen Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels to deliver their party’s rebuttal to Obama’s State of the Union Address next week.

A statement accompanying the decision commended Daniels, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush, for his record of fiscal management in the Hoosier State.

“Governor Daniels, now in his eighth and final year as Indiana’s chief executive, has compiled a solid record of effective government and fiscal responsibility, making him well-suited to outline Republicans’ better solutions to the challenges Americans are facing in this struggling economy,” the announcement read, according to The Hill.

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