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Researchers Reach Conclusion

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: A report in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association (search) by five researchers at the University of California-San Francisco concludes that fetuses likely don’t feel pain until the seventh month of pregnancy. But what the report and much of the subsequent …

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Everybody Loves the Reverend?

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: FBI’s Fake Candidate Two West Virginia men charged with buying votes have asked a judge to thrown out the case since the candidate they cheated for was actually an FBI informant. The Washington Post reports that Democrat Thomas Esposito ran for the …

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FEMA Battles Negative Image

WASHINGTON – The four successive hurricanes that hit Florida last fall not only left an aftermath of death, property destruction and uncertain futures, but also created a political strain on the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA’s job is to provide a safety net for people whose lives have been left …

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