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FROM AP: First lady walks 'the platypus walk'
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Recent events create an awareness that too little guidance has been given politicians on the proper way to deal with problems that arise when the non-politically ambitious partner in an illicit affair.
In addition to pressuring the regime through sanctions and offering moral support to the Iranian people's legitimate demands, the US should follow a two-pronged approach in dealing with the opposition.
Denver's mayoral race shines a spotlight on the direction of our political process. Does one become elected to higher office through public service or by means and connections to the wealthy?
Former Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson argues that new designs for nuclear power plans should constantly be evaluated and old designs reevaluated.
The stampede to a no-fly zone in Libya doesn't solve the core underlying issues that it isn't efficacious, could rob protesters of their own narrative and even of their political legitimacy, and doesn't give them the tools they really need to win.
The National Institutes of Health has held the transfer of chimps from a New Mexico warehouse to an active research laboratory. It will instead wait for a review of chimps in research.
As Gov. Bill Richardson prepared to relinquish his office, the NIH gave him a beautiful going-away present. As he requested, they called a halt to the federal government's cruel plan to take 202 chimpanzees and subject them once again to years of experiments.
Rather than waiting patiently for reunification to take place through negotiations, the South Korean Lee Myoung-bak administration wants to accelerate the process, by force if necessary.
A grumpy Norwegian fishing boat captain, a Hulk necktie and nonstop rain in an Alaskan village with not a road leading out of town... if you had told me all of this was in my future, I would have wondered what odd dream you had woken up from.
It has happened before when sitting presidents have been unpopular: President Jimmy Carter faced a strong and lengthy challenge for the Oval Office from the late Senator Ted Kennedy in 1980.
The Administration should resist pressure from self-interested exiles represented by five Cuban Americans in the House and Senate. Polls demonstrate that they no longer reflect their own community.
Chimpanzees are indistinguishable from us in every important way, such as the ability to feel pain and fear, love and joy, and the desire to live with others of one's own kind.
Shortchanging women means shortchanging men and children as well. In the present climate of encouraging economic self-sufficiency and focusing on family well-being, righting the wrongs of unequal pay seems like a no-brainer.
Big banks, along with politicians, have lured states and communities across the US to buy into banking derivatives or 'swaps,' and all are paying the price.
Often when discussing the advent of a new era in nuclear power generation, advocates for nukes tread lightly over certain subjects, such as waste disposal and security issues.
New Mexico is one of the first states to recognize that there might be a payoff to bringing its operating accounts back inside its borders, where its "big money" can more closely support intra-state needs.
