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Paul G. Kirk Gets Nod to Fill Kennedy’s Senate Seat

Paul G. Kirk tapped to fill Kennedy’s Senate seat, but he has strong ties to both a health insurance company and pharmaceutical concerns. How will he vote on health care reform?

24Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Vermont Justices and Judges: Are They Legally on the Bench?

Upsetting the Vermont Justice system Applecart

11May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Swine flu in New England—Updates: Don’t Cancel Plans to Visit

Update for May 2, 2009 While there has been an uptick in new cases worldwide to 615, there are no new confirmed cases in New England. Nonetheless, suspected cases have closed the Harvard Dental School and Amherst College. Misconceptions continue to spread at a rate far greater than the flu itself. In New York and [...]

3May2009 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Swine Flu in New England: Don’t Cancel Plans to Visit

To put Swine Flu in perspective vis-à-vis a normal seasonal flu, Dr. Michael Baden, a noted pathologist, says that during the normal flu season, the regular flu kills up to 100 people a day! So far, only one fatality has occurred from H1N1 in the United States.

30Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Where Have All the Honeybees Gone?

It’s a startlingly fast and stealthy killer—dark, invisible and as yet unidentified. A plague of unknown origin is sweeping through honeybee hives and decimating their populations. The bees simply vanish. The lack of knowledge of the underlying cause moves it closer to becoming an extinction-level crisis. It began on the East coast in the form [...]

18Apr2008 | | 21 comments | Continued