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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.

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Mississippi River reader tradition lives on

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By TOM CHARLIER
Scripps Howard News Service

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. -- He makes his rounds with a steady gait and worn sneakers -- a lonely figure on a catwalk gazing at water that, like the world around him, is relentlessly passing by.

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Timbervolves could do worse than keeping Garnett

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By PATRICK REUSSE
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

The nonsensical cliche that has been repeated frequently is that a Kevin Garnett trade would cause the Minnesota Timberwolves to suffer a big loss in attendance.

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TNT to wow jaded NASCAR viewers

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By BILL WHITEHEAD
Scripps Howard News Service

The same old argument gets bandied about every NASCAR Nextel Cup season about this time of the year. Not Ford versus Chevy, short tracks versus superspeedways, Hendrick Motorsports versus Roush Fenway Racing or even a more contemporary one, the current car versus the Car of Tomorrow.

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Better things to come for Red Sox?

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By SEAN McADAM
The Providence Journal

BOSTON _ Disappointing as its conclusion was, the Boston Red Sox recent nine-game road trip to Atlanta, San Diego and Seattle was hardly catastrophic.

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California Democrats feel squeeze on term limits

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By DAN WALTERS
Sacramento Bee

When California Democratic leaders -- especially Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez -- launched their drive to modify legislative term limits, they painted big targets on the backs of their well-tailored suits.

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Holidays are work days for pyrotechnicians

By VICKY TORRES
Scripps Howard News Service

Next Wednesday evening, millions of Americans from coast-to-coast will cap off the Fourth of July holiday by watching a fireworks show.

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Inside tips on finding those cheap fares

By CHRIS WALSH
Scripps Howard News Service
With CHEAPAIRFARES

Perceptions and realities regarding air travel:
- Perception: Buy as early as possible to get the cheapest fare.

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Ripken, Gwynn are OK with Bonds

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By JIM CARLISLE
Scripps Howard News Service

Major League Baseball gets into All-Star mode starting this weekend with the Sunday's All-Star Game Selection Show on TBS. The show marks the start of TBS' new baseball deal in which beginning this fall, the network will show its first playoff games: the Division Series and the National League Championship Series.

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Tales of broken players tug at hearts

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By BERNIE LINCICOME
Scripps Howard News Service

Sad stories from violent sports, from football, from boxing, from hockey, from games where angry men smack other angry men, are almost clichis, the addled old jock far from the glory he chased.

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Realistically repairing America's image abroad

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By THOMAS P.M. BARNETT
Scripps Howard News Service

There's no question that anti-Americanism increased dramatically worldwide in the past half-decade, in part because of our muscular response to 9/11. It's also true that, since the Cold War's end, Washington has significantly curtailed its "public diplomacy" efforts to win hearts and minds overseas.

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Dead Wrong

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

Editorial: Water puts moon in a new light

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Navy to deploy dolphins, sea lions to protect sub base

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Editorial: Cracking down on free speech in name of religion

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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: But go ahead and make plans for next week anyway

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Erbe: Stupak-Pitts shoves women to back of bus

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Autos: Lincoln's flagship these days is the MKS sedan

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Lose weight for yourself or for your guy

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Tuned In: New releases from 'American Idol' stars

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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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