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Autopsy rates differ by race, age, sex, education
A first-of-its-kind study has 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.
Cause of death investigations often dead wrong
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.
The erroneous death certificates cause medical researchers to look at the wrong health threats, and mislead people to the real diseases that run in their families.
The understudy steps up
Scripps Howard News Service
An editorial / By Dale McFeatters
Scripps Howard News Service
The British have their own way of doing things. Without a vote of the people or his party, Gordon Brown became their prime minister and, unless he chooses otherwise, doesn't have to face the electorate until June 2010.
NRA under fire ... Big Read ... Name changes ... more
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WASHINGTON CALLING
By LISA HOFFMAN
Scripps Howard News Service
The July Fourth fireworks over the Washington Monument are nothing compared with the sounds of battle accompanying an uncommon war raging on Capitol Hill, gun-rights Web sites and radio talk shows.
Has time finally come for Sabean to rebuild Giants
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Must credit the San Francisco Chronicle
By HENRY SCHULMAN
San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Giants as sellers at the trade deadline? San Diego Padres general manager Kevin Towers will believe it when he sees GM Brian Sabean inside the Giants' clubhouse yanking uniform tops off the backs of his experienced players.
Sonics quash Durant celebration with Allen trade
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Must credit the News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash.
By JOHN McGRATH
Tacoma News Tribune
An hour after the Seattle SuperSonics used their first-round choice in the NBA draft on the consensus college player of the year, general manager Sam Presti found himself in an improbable position.
Answer to Iraq is somewhere over the horizon
Raleigh may not use
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COLUMN
By MARSHA MERCER
Media General News Service
WASHINGTON -- Even the White House was blindsided when Sen. Richard Lugar, a highly respected Republican, called for a change of course in Iraq. How to respond?
Over 20 years, Gilead has acquired success
Must credit the San Francisco Chronicle
By BERNADETTE TANSEY
San Francisco Chronicle
In just two decades, Gilead Sciences Inc., the San Francisco Bay Area's second-largest biotechnology company, has established itself as the nation's dominant seller of HIV drugs, with such products accounting for two-thirds of its $3 billion in revenue in 2006.
Florida's iguana invasion inches north
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By LINDSAY SMITH
Scripps Howard News Service
VERO BEACH, Fla. _ The green invaders that have munched through gardens throughout South Florida are inching northward. They are voracious, quickly can grow to 6 feet long and absolutely love most ornamental flowers and vegetable gardens.
It's the year of the mockingbirds
Must credit The Providence Journal
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By KEN WEBER
The Providence Journal
It sounds like the title of some old song or a children's story: the mockingbirds in the honeysuckle. But these mockingbirds are real, and they have been brightening our back yard for several months now. They even hatched out a bunch of chicks.

