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After 12 years of effort to pass legislation requiring insurance companies to cover mental illnesses just like other medical conditions, Sen. Domenici, who started this quest, and mental health organizations finally got the response to their efforts. The legislation, known as mental health parity, becomes law after more than twenty years of struggle. Sen. Pete Domenici started his quest after his daughter Clare, one of his eight children, was diagnosed with atypical schizophrenia. He got involved in the parity issue after joining a National Alliance on Mental Illness support group nearly 20...
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The jury of the O.J. Simpson trial began deliberating on Friday in Las Vegas in order to determine if, in fact, the former football star and his codefendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart are guilty of leading the armed robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers. Well, everyone agreed that Simpson, along with four other men, did march into a room at the Palace Station hotel and casino in September 2007. The jury is now to decide whether O.J.’s initiated the hold up and, if he did, what reasons he had. Prosecutors claim that Simpson led the whole operation behind the...
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Barack Obama launched an attack on John McCain’s health care plan Saturday and focused its criticism mainly on the Arizona Senator’s proposal to tax health care benefits and the dangerous effects it would trigger. Obama plans to attack McCain’s proposal via four new television ads, four separate mailers, radio commercials and several other events. The main idea underlined in Obama’s new ads and commercials revolves around the fact that McCain’s health care plan would be a dramatic change for the current system, probably too dramatic. McCain plans to tax the health benefits people receive...
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After TOM, makers of TOM-Skype – the Chinese version of the popular VoIP/messenger program, were caught with their pants down by Canadian web researchers, Skype Inc., which is owned by EBay, are trying to save face. Skype publicly disclosed as early as 2006 that a filtering system was installed on the TOM-Skype client and that this system would filter out… “unsuitable” messages, but that these were “simply discarded and not...transmitted anywhere.” Contrary to Popular belief though, snooping around by Canadian researchers through poorly secured servers belonging to TOM discovered that –...
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Federal investigators found three witnesses who said the commuter train involved in the worst train accident in California in the past 15 years had a green light as it headed toward the deadly impact, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. The three witnesses told investigators they saw the commuter train at the Chatsworth, Calif., Metrolink station before the crash and they saw the final signal it received before heading toward the collision with a Union Pacific freight train. The statements given by the witnesses are in contradiction with the reports of the National...
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