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Drinking water unsafe at thousands of schools	25.9.2009	Salt Lake Tribune
Cutler, Calif. » Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
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School drinking water contains toxins	25.9.2009	Custom Search
CUTLER, Calif. (AP) -- Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
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Vail Valley Bizwatch: Isagenix products representative Lauren Raymond	22.9.2009	Vail Colorado: News
Business name: Isagenix International.Date opened: June, 2008.Local representative: Lauren Raymond.Contact info: Web: http://mlrvail.myisagenix.com/product/http://mlrvail.myisagenix.com/opportunity/E-mail: mlrvail@comcast.net
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Flawed health-care system needs rescue	19.9.2009	Custom Search
The June 22 issue of the Los Angeles Times, on health care reform:
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Government stands by as mercury taints water	18.9.2009	Custom Search
NEW IDRIA, Calif. (AP) -- Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.
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Government stands by as mercury taints water	18.9.2009	Custom Search
NEW IDRIA, Calif. (AP) -- Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.
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Moderate case of disease killing ducks on the marshes of the Great Salt Lake	16.9.2009	Salt Lake Tribune
State and federal wildlife officials are reporting a "moderate" case of an annual avian botulism outbreak on the marshes of the Great Salt Lake resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of waterfowl and shorebirds.
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Genetic, Genital Damage in Montana Wildlife?	15.9.2009	NewWest.Net Travel & Outdoors
Hard as it is to be a voice in the wilderness, Judy Hoy has been sounding an alarm in southwestern Montana for more than 13 years. Public officials haven’t been listening, she says. Hoy has been documenting changes—mutations, really—in various ungulate species like deer, publishing her findings in places like the Journal of Environmental Biology. Among her concerns: she’s seen malformed genitalia among male white-tailed deer, which could be the result of pesticide exposures, she theorizes.
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Genetic, Genital Damage in Montana Wildlife, Crusader Says	15.9.2009	NewWest.Net All Headlines
Hard as it is to be a voice in the wilderness, Judy Hoy has been sounding an alarm in southwestern Montana for more than 13 years. Public officials haven't been listening, she says. Hoy has been documenting changesmutations, reallyin various ungulate species like deer, publishing her findings in places like the Journal of Environmental Biology. Among her concerns: she's seen malformed genitalia among male white-tailed deer, which could be the result of pesticide exposures, she theorizes.
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White House stiffens against illegal immigrants	13.9.2009	Custom Search
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House strengthened its stand against health care coverage for illegal immigrants Friday, and a pivotal Senate committee looked ready to follow its lead.
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White House stiffens against illegal immigrants	12.9.2009	Custom Search
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House strengthened its stand against health care coverage for illegal immigrants Friday, and a pivotal Senate committee looked ready to follow its lead.
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Deer mystery solved	10.9.2009	Denver Post: National News Headlines
Researchers are reporting that they have solved a long- standing mystery about the rapid spread of a fatal brain infection in deer, elk and moose in the Midwest and West.
Oregon docs lead health reform caravan to Congress, with a Salt Lake stopover	9.9.2009	Salt Lake Tribune
Portland, Ore. » Some Oregon doctors are headed for Congress to ask lawmakers to take health care reform back to the drawing board and hold a real debate about a single-payer plan that would cover all Americans.
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Editorial: Lead the way, Mr. President	9.9.2009	Denver Post: Opinion
After a long August recess consumed by sound and fury over health care reform, President Obama needs to move the debate forward in meaningful ways tonight in his prime-time address to Congress and the nation.
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Nobel winner to lead ASU health effort	8.9.2009	azcentral.com \| business
Lee Hartwell lead a new Biodesign Institute research center that will include medical research. The group has held talks with officials Singapore, Japan and other nations.
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Fallout from nuclear tests leads to health crisis	7.9.2009	Custom Search
HONOLULU (AP) -- Pius Henry fears his adopted government will kill him, that the United States won't live up to a health care obligation to people from Pacific islands where it tested nuclear bombs.
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Fallout from nuclear tests leads to health crisis	7.9.2009	Custom Search
HONOLULU (AP) -- Pius Henry fears his adopted government will kill him, that the United States won't live up to a health care obligation to people from Pacific islands where it tested nuclear bombs.
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Economy, better health lead to longer time in workforce	3.9.2009	azcentral.com \| business
Economy, better health lead to longer time in workforce
Cancer researchers ID drug-blocking protein	31.8.2009	Salt Lake Tribune
Some Ewing's sarcoma patients have tumors that may resist chemotherapy, researchers at the Huntsman Cancer Institute have found, a discovery expected to lead to more personalized care.
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Head of Iraq's largest Shiite political party dies of cancer	27.8.2009	Denver Post: National News Headlines
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the head of Iraq's largest Shiite political party, died Wednesday, creating a leadership vacuum that could weaken the bloc before the January parliamentary election.

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