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Chinese drywall investigation could be released Monday

By ISAAC WOLF, Scripps Howard News Service

A highly anticipated federal investigation of Chinese drywall is expected to be released Monday, and it could be worth thousands of dollars for affected homeowners.

That's because the report may trigger the availability of federal funds that affected homeowners could use to lessen their losses, according to a spokesman for Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.

Editorial: The politics of mammograms

An editorial / By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service

The government-funded -- but independent -- U.S. Preventive Service Task Force, made up of 16 physicians and public-health experts, did what it was supposed to, and indeed should be done routinely under any health-care-reform plan, a periodic examination and re-evaluation of current medical practice.

Tucker: Unbeatens create another BCS mess

By JOHN TUCKER, New Hampshire Union Leader

You might not have a lot to take to the bank these days, but in college football, there's plenty you can bank on:

With six unbeatens occupying the top six spots in the BCS standings heading into Week 12 -- and only two matched up before the bowl season -- BCS bashers will be coming out of the woodwork en masse.

The playoff debate will rage anew.

Watch: Palin still isn't ready for political prime time

By ANN McFEATTERS, Scripps Howard News Service

WASHINGTON - "Don't you say anything bad about Sarah Palin," admonished one of my sisters. "We love her. Be nice to her."

"What is this infatuation about Sarah Palin all about?!" said another sibling. "I can't understand it. She has no real solutions. All she does is criticize and look hot."

Flamboyant millionaire becomes Olympics' ticket king

By ROD MICKLEBURGH, Toronto Globe and Mail

VANCOUVER - A flamboyant, wheeler-dealer millionaire is the undisputed ticket king of the Olympics.

For millionaire Sead Dizdarevic, it's a brand-new, above-board world

In California, executive glass ceiling still not cracked by women

By MARK GLOVER, Sacramento Bee

Women are making "no progress" cracking the executive glass ceiling in California, according to a just-released study by the University of California, Davis.

The fifth annual "California Women Business Leaders" study concludes that progress for women at the 400 largest public companies headquartered in the state is little improved since the first survey in 2005.

Two Fla. boys made up story of child abduction, police say

By WILL GREENLEE, Scripps Howard News Service

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A reported child abduction that turned out to be a hoax this week apparently started with two young boys mimicking the plot of a crime-related television program and ended with misdemeanor charges, a police spokesman said.

Ambrose: The anti-Palin bias

By JAY AMBROSE, Scripps Howard News Service

Here's what you do if you want an immediate demonstration of media bias in political coverage and to see trap doors open on the heads of leftists throughout the land as little birds step out singing, "Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo." You speak the name of Sarah Palin and let it be known she's traveling about the land saying stuff.

Mourning N.C. family 'relieved' young mom's body found

By JOSH SHAFFER, Raleigh News and Observer

CREEDMOOR, N.C, - After a 14-month hunt that sent searchers trudging through pastures and peering into open wells, sheriff's deputies found the skeletal remains of Kelly Morris inside a 900-acre tract where dogs chase coyotes and foxes for sport.

Marvez: A talk with 'Swimming with Piranhas' author Howard Brody

By ALEX MARVEZ, Scripps Howard News Service

Howard Brody dealt with quite a shady lot while trying to become a successful pro-wrestling promoter:

A convicted murderer, a kidnapper, international smugglers, suspected yakuza (i.e., Japanese mobsters), con artists, drug addicts.

Not to mention World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon.

Clowning around doesn't work for would-be Calif. bank robber

By RICHARD BROOKS, The Press-Enterprise

A would-be robber -- wearing clown makeup and carrying a purse -- tried to hold up a Riverside credit union this week but left empty handed.

"I guess they didn't take the clown seriously," said police Sgt. Skip Showalter.

The brief one-man circus performed at 5:11 p.m. Wednesday at Altura Credit Union along the 3400 block of Fourteenth Street.

The hidden victims: 2,000 men have breast cancer

By BRIAN BETHEL, Scripps Howard News Service

While health care pundits debate over when women should have mammograms, 2,000 men diagnosed with breast cancer this year are in the shadows.

One of them is Marshall Anderson, 52, who works as a medical technologist with Texas Oncology in North Carolina. He takes care of parents all day, but never imagined that he would be diagnosed with breast cancer.

Hired: Be an active listener and stay focused

By MARVIN WALBERG, Scripps Howard News Service

Volumes have been written about the job interview.

Pre-interview research and preparation.

Proper interview dress.

Promptness -- arrival time.

Body language and interview protocol.

Answers to questions and questions to ask.

Thank you notes and follow through.

Consumer satisfaction bodes well for holidays

By TERESA F. LINDEMAN, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Stressed-out consumers want comfort food and comfortable clothes at the right price, and the fact that they're relatively satisfied overall with what they're getting may boost holiday shopping.

Real: Search around if you're looking into jumbo mortgages

By HOLDEN LEWIS, bankrate.com

Plenty of lenders offer jumbo mortgages now, although the requirements are stricter than they used to be.

Jumbo mortgages are home loans that are bigger than normal. They exceed the "conforming limit" -- the maximum loan amount that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will buy.

By CHRIS CAMPBELL, Scripps Howard News Service

Game On: 'Punch-Out' a hit; 'Bionic Commando' not so much

Punch-Out
Platform: Wii.
Genre: Sports.
Publisher: Nintendo.
ESRB Rating: E for Everyone.
Grade: 4.5 stars.
Sure, they have stripped Iron Mike's name from the title, but there is nothing better than seeing Little Mac return to the ring in an all-new, updated "Punch-Out" for the Wii.

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Game On: 'Punch-Out' a hit; 'Bionic Commando' not so much

Punch-Out
Platform: Wii.
Genre: Sports.
Publisher: Nintendo.
ESRB Rating: E for Everyone.
Grade: 4.5 stars (out of 5)

Sure, they have stripped Iron Mike's name from the title, but there is nothing better than seeing Little Mac return to the ring in an all-new, updated "Punch-Out" for the Wii.

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Game On: "inFamous" engaging and rewarding

"inFamous"
Platforms: PlayStation 3
Genre: Action-Adventure
Publisher: Sony
ESRB Rating: T for Teen
Grade: 4.5 stars

Now this is a game that people can get behind. Plenty of games advertise that you can choose whether to be the good guy or the bad guy (with corresponding attributes) but rarely do they deliver.

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Game On: Battlestations: Pacific a direct hit

Battlestations: Pacific
Platform: Xbox 360, PC.
Genre: Real-Time Strategy.
Publisher: Eidos Interactive.
ESRB Rating: T for Teen.
Grade: 4 stars (out of 5).

Rare is the game that can seamlessly blend real-time strategy with an engaging action option for those who want to dive into the thick of the battle instead of playing general.

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Game On: 'Cryostasis' chilling, flaws and all

"Cryostasis"
Platform: PC
Genre: First-person shooter
Publisher: Aspyr
ESRB Rating: T, for Teen
Grade: 3.5 stars (out of 5)

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Game On: 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' offers bloody good fun

"X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, PS2, PSP, DS
Genre: Action
Publisher: Activision
ESRB Rating: M, for Mature
Grade: 3.5 stars (out of 5)

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Game On: 'Rhythm Heaven' offers devil of a beat

"Rhythm Heaven"
Platform: DS
Genre: Music
Publisher: Nintendo
ESRB Rating: E, for Everyone
Grade: 3.5 stars (out of 5)

Not for the musically timid, "Rhythm Heaven" provides a welcome break from current music-genre megahits that rely on sing-alongs to crummy pop hits or thrashing about on a guitar.

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Game On: 'Ninja Blade' best of weak crop

"Ninja Blade"
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action
Publisher: Microsoft
ESRB Rating: M for Mature
Grade: 3.5 stars (out of 5)

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Game On: 'Godfather II', 'Metallica' both letdowns

"The Godfather II"
Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC
Genre: Action
Publisher: EA Games
ESRB Rating: M, for Mature
Grade: 3 stars (out of 5)

Game On: "Legends of Wrestlemania" too bland

"Legends of Wrestlemania"
Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
Genre: Sports
Publisher: THQ
ESRB Rating: T for Teen
Grade: 3 stars (out of 5)

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A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans. A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.

Autopsy rates differ by race, age, sex, education

Cause of death investigations often dead wrong

Accurate death certificates challenged by poor training

Poll: Doubts persist over accuracy of death certificates

Survey results among different groups

Death poll findings, by questions

What to do if you distrust the death diagnosis

Where to find death records

Deaths by heart disease by state

Editorial: We don't know what's really killing Americans

Navy to deploy dolphins, sea lions to protect sub base

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Editorial: Water puts moon in a new light

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Market decides if you set the right price for a house

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Editorial: 9/11 planners to return to NYC -- for trial

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Editorial: Cracking down on free speech in name of religion

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House bill addresses shortages of primary doctors

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Lose weight for yourself or for your guy

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Editorial: But go ahead and make plans for next week anyway

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Tuned In: New releases from 'American Idol' stars

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Erbe: Stupak-Pitts shoves women to back of bus

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Recycled Radiation

Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactively tainted metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world. But because of haphazard screening, an absence of oversight, and substantial disincentives for businesses to report contamination, no one knows how many tainted goods are in circulation.

Recycled radioactive metal contaminates consumer products

NRC wants to tighten oversight of often-lost radioactive devices

Same batch of radioactive metal from Mexico enters Calif. for 25 years

Radioactive cheese grater case shows lack of oversight

36 states have nowhere to dump low-level radioactive material

Radioactive mesh from China used to make 30,000 filters in Florida

Authorities scrambled to corral radioactive La-Z-Boy recliners

Only U.S. effort to collect radioactive material has 9,000-object backlog

Mandatory screening, reporting needed to stop recycling radiation

Radioactive materials surface in Tennessee scrap yards

Texas has highest number of radioactive metal incidents

Editorial: The hidden radiation around us

Scripps Howard News Service response to comments from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on SHNS' "Recycled Radiation"

The Doctor is Out

A special report by Scripps Howard News Service finds as many as one in five Americans does not have a family doctor. And this translates directly to higher rates of illness and death and higher costs.

Docs: In ERs, more sore throats than cardiac arrests

Interactive database showing U.S. doctors by county

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Game On: 'Punch-Out' a hit; 'Bionic Commando' not so much

Game On: 'Punch-Out' a hit; 'Bionic Commando' not so much

Game On: "inFamous" engaging and rewarding

Game On: Battlestations: Pacific a direct hit

Game On: 'Cryostasis' chilling, flaws and all

Game On: 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' offers bloody good fun

Game On: 'Rhythm Heaven' offers devil of a beat

Game On: 'Ninja Blade' best of weak crop

Game On: 'Godfather II', 'Metallica' both letdowns

Game On: "Legends of Wrestlemania" too bland

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