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9/10/2011 National drug survey shows big drop in methamphetamine use
Drug use among college-age adults is increasing, driven largely by an increase marijuana use, a national drug-use survey has found. Nearly one in 10 Americans report regularly using illegal drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants or prescription drugs used recreationally, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health made public today. The survey, sponsored by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), collects the data from interviews with 67,500 randomly selected people 12 years or older. Marijuana, with 17.4 million regular users, is by far the most commonly used drug. Its popularity is growing: 6.9% of the population reported using marijuana regularly, up from 5.8% in 2007. Among 12- to 17-year-olds, 7.4% reported having used marijuana in the past month, about the same as last year. Drug use among young adults 18 to 25 has inched up steadily from 19.6% in 2008 to 21.5% in 2010. Marijuana use in that group rose from 16.5% in 2008 to 18.5% in 2010. Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, attributed the uptick in marijuana use to the increase in the number of states that have approved it for medical use. Delaware in May became the 16th state to approve medical marijuana. Drug use climbs (USA Today)
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posted: 9/14/11                   0       6
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4/18/2011 Boehner seeks to divert funds for gay marriage fight
House Speaker John Boehner said he intends to divert funding from the Justice Department to the U.S. House so Congress can defend the federal law that bars recognition of same-sex marriage. The Ohio Republican disclosed this in a letter to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who is strongly opposed to Congress going to court to defend the 1996 law. An estimate on court costs was not given. Pelosi shot back, saying Boehner has not answered her central question about the costs to mounting a defense to the law. "The House of Representatives need not enter into this lengthy and costly litigation," she responded. Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Obama administration would no longer defend the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, a Clinton-era law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The law also says that states cannot be forced to recognize same-sex marriages from other states. (USA Today)
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posted: 4/19/11                   0       3
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2/25/2011 Can geoengineering put the freeze on global warming?
Scientists call it "geoengineering," but in plain speak, it means things like this: blasting tons of sulfate particles into the sky to reflect sunlight away from Earth; filling the ocean with iron filings to grow plankton that will suck up carbon; even dimming sunlight with space shades. Each brings its own set of risks, but in a world fretting about the consequences of global warming, are these ideas whose time has come? With 2010 tying as the world's warmest year on record and efforts to slow greenhouse gas emissions looking stymied, calls are rising for research into engineering our way out of global warming — everything from launching solar shade spacecraft to genetically engineering green deserts. An international consortium of 12 universities and research institutes on Tuesday, for example, announced plans to pioneer large-scale "ocean fertilization" experiments aimed at using the sea to pull more greenhouse gases out of the sky. (USA Today)
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posted: 3/6/11                   0       9
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9/28/2010 Napolitano pitches plan for air security to 190 nations
The U.S. Homeland Security chief will urge 190 nations today to improve aviation security with body scanners and other innovations to stop terrorists from carrying plastic and powdered explosives onto airplanes. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the push aims to counter terrorists who might use international flights for attacks by smuggling explosives through overseas metal detectors. Such devices can't stop suicide bombers from hiding unconventional weapons under their clothes. A Nigerian man is under federal indictment for trying to blow up an international flight headed for Detroit in December by igniting powdered explosives in his underwear. "We need to move to the next stage of screening," Napolitano told USA TODAY. Terrorists "have kind of figured out the magnetometer business." (USA Today)
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posted: 10/4/10                   0       11
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9/13/2010 Homeland Security to test iris scanners
The Homeland Security Department plans to test futuristic iris scan technology that stores digital images of people's eyes in a database and is considered a quicker alternative to fingerprints. The department will run a two-week test in October of commercially sold iris scanners at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, where they will be used on illegal immigrants, said Arun Vemury, program manager at the department's Science and Technology branch. "The test will help us determine how viable this is for potential (department) use in the future," Vemury said. Iris scanners are little used, but a new generation of cameras that capture images from 6 feet away instead of a few inches has sparked interest from government agencies and financial firms, said Patrick Grother, a National Institute of Standards and Technology computer scientist. The technology also has sparked objections from the American Civil Liberties Union. (USA Today)
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posted: 10/5/10                   0       3
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4/27/2010 Possible Supreme Court pick had ties with Goldman Sachs
Solicitor General Elena Kagan was a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute, according to the financial disclosures she filed when President Obama appointed her last year to her current post. Kagan served on the Goldman panel from 2005 through 2008, when she was dean of Harvard Law School, and received a $10,000 stipend for her service in 2008, her disclosure forms show. (USA Today)
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posted: 5/23/10                   0       17
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1/8/2010 Body scanners key to anti-terror plan
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) bought 150 scanners in September for $25 million, but none has been installed. (USA Today)
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posted: 1/9/10                   0       14
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1/7/2010 National security adviser: Airline bomber report to 'shock'
Jones said the remedies involve "tweaks" rather than the overhaul that followed the Sept. 11 attacks— for instance, hiring for intelligence agencies so analysts aren't overwhelmed by their workload. (USA Today)
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posted: 1/25/10                   0       13
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8/17/2009 Poll: 57% don't see stimulus working
Six months after President Obama launched a $787 billion plan to right the nation's economy, a majority of Americans think the avalanche of new federal aid has cost too much and done too little to end the recession (USA Today)
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posted: 8/27/09                   0       12
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8/7/2009 New swine flu guidelines issued for schools
Schools across the USA should close this fall only if "high numbers" of students come down with the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, top federal officials said Friday (USA Today)
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posted: 8/21/09                   0       11
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8/4/2009 Homeland Secretary Napolitano predicts severe flu epidemic for fall
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asserted Tuesday that pandemic flu is likely to flare up soon after schools open in the fall, well before any vaccine is available (USA Today)
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posted: 8/21/09                   0       11
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7/9/2009 Sebelius: Swine flu shots may begin in Oct
The Obama administration put states on notice Thursday: Swine flu promises to create a mess this fall. Are you ready? (USA Today)
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posted: 7/17/09                   0       8
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6/9/2009 Congress subpoenas the Federal Reserve
House lawmakers on Tuesday said they have subpoenaed the Federal Reserve to hand over e-mails, notes and other documents related to its role in Bank of America Corp.'s acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co (USA Today)
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posted: 6/10/09                   5       26
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6/9/2009 Stimulus spending spawns requests
Dozens of members of Congress from both parties have called, written or e-mailed agencies urging them to fund projects in their districts or states (USA Today)
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posted: 7/7/09                   0       7
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4/19/2009 'Civic generation' rolls up sleeves in record numbers
Young adults who grew up in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks and saw the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina are volunteering at home and abroad in record numbers (USA Today)
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posted: 6/5/09                   2       22
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3/10/2009 Terrorist watch list hits 1 million
Federal data show the rise comes despite the removal of 33,000 entries last year by the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center in an effort to purge the list of outdated information and remove people cleared in investigations (USA Today)
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posted: 5/7/09                   1       13
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2/24/2009 The mendacity of hope
The U.S. essentially has four options

from best to worst

going forward in Afghanistan (USA Today)
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posted: 5/27/09                   2       23
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1/27/2009 Geithner names ex-lobbyist as Treasury chief of staff
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner picked a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist as a top aide Tuesday, the same day he announced rules aimed at reducing the role of lobbyists in agency decisions. Mark Patterson will serve as Geithner's chief of staff at Treasury, which oversees the government's $700 billion financial bailout program. Goldman Sachs received $10 billion of that money. (USA Today)
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posted: 6/4/10                   0       6
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4/30/2008 Robot reinvents bypass surgery
The surgeon working inside J.C. Bizzle's chest perched at an egg-shaped console a few yards from the operating table (USA Today)
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posted: 7/29/09                   0       10
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12/22/2007 Obama's views have changed with time
When he ran for the Senate, Obama called the act a "shoddy and dangerous law" that should be replaced. After he took office, the Senate considered an update that Obama criticized as only a modest improvement and one that was inferior to other alternatives. Still, Obama ended up voting for that renewal and update of the Patriot Act. (USA Today)
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posted: 6/4/10                   0       5
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6/15/2006 China makes ultimate punishment mobile (USA Today)
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posted: 5/5/09                   2       12
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6/6/2006 Documents show CIA covered up Nazi war criminals during Cold War (USA Today)
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posted: 5/6/09                   2       13
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5/11/2006 NSA secret database report triggers fierce debate in Washington
And the firestorm sparked by disclosure of the National Security Agency project mirrors a debate that dates to the nation's founding, and before, over balancing the interests of the government with the rights of individuals (USA Today)
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posted: 6/17/09                   5       19
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1/24/2006 Last year was warmest in a century, study concludes
Researchers calculated that 2005 produced the highest annual average surface temperature worldwide since instrument recordings began in the late 1800s, said James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (USA Today)
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posted: 7/29/09                   0       8
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11/1/2005 Report: Army secretly dumped chemicals offshore (USA Today)
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posted: 5/6/09                   1       13
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10/2/2005 Gas prices may last six months
The nation's energy chief says it will take six months for U.S. energy production and prices to return to pre-hurricane levels, and he hints at energy shortages in the interim (USA Today)
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posted: 5/19/09                   3       26
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9/17/2005 Historic changes possible in military's role in domestic emergencies
Bush's push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil (USA Today)
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posted: 5/16/09                   4       25
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5/10/2005 Ridge reveals clashes on alerts (USA Today)
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posted: 5/6/09                   2       12
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7/19/2004 In-flight cell phones 'worked great' in test
Cell phone company Qualcomm (QCOM) has teamed with American Airlines (AMR) to develop satellite-based air-to-ground cellular service (USA Today)
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posted: 5/14/09                   2       29
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4/18/2004 NORAD had drills of jets as weapons
In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties (USA Today)
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posted: 5/12/09                   2       30
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8/29/2002 Saddam a threat to energy supply, Cheney tells vets
Vice President Cheney took the lead Thursday as he and President Bush continued a rhetorical offensive on the need to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein amid mounting qualms at home and abroad (USA Today)
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posted: 6/8/09                   3       22
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8/12/2002 Part II: No one was sure if hijackers were on board
Aboard Delta Flight 1989, Capt. Paul Werner learns of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks from his cockpit radio (USA Today)
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2/6/2002 Official: 15 of 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi
"Previously, Saudi Arabia had said the citizenship of 15 of the 19 hijackers was in doubt despite U.S. insistence they were Saudis. But Interior Minister Prince Nayef told The Associated Press that Saudi leaders were shocked to learn 15 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia." (USA Today)
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posted: 5/14/09                   3       25
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9/25/2001 American Flight 77 victims at a glance
The plane was carrying 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots (USA Today)
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posted: 5/14/09                   2       20
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9/25/2001 United Flight 93 victims at a glance
A Boeing 757 en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco was carrying 37 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants. It crashed southeast of Pittsburgh (USA Today)
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posted: 5/14/09                   3       24
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9/17/2001 "Tomorrow always belongs to us"
"Then I looked up to my left and saw an American Airlines jet flying right at me. The jet roared over my head, clearing my car by about 25 feet. The tail of the plane clipped the overhanging exit sign above me as it headed straight at the Pentagon." (USA Today)
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posted: 5/14/09                   3       23
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9/13/2001 Pentagon searchers encounter grisly scenes
When Williams discovered the scorched bodies of several airline passengers, they were still strapped into their seats (USA Today)
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posted: 5/14/09                   3       23
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3/1/1995 When medicine went wrong: how Americans were used illegally as guinea pits (USA Today)
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posted: 5/6/09                   2       13
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