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Hospitals Fight Drug Scarcity, Fear Patients Harmed

The growing scarcity of sterile, injectable drugs is one of the biggest issues confronting hospitals across the country, and will be a key issue at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago this weekend.

US Job Growth Falters In May - Is QE3 By Fed Up Ahead?

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A third straight month of disappointing job data clearly suggests that the U.S. labor market conditions are deteriorating again, which economists say will undoubtedly prompt more speculation that a third round of quantitative easing by the U.S. Federal Reserve is coming soon.
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Overview of the Human Rights Council special session on the situation in Syria at the United Nations in Geneva

Latest U.S. Report Is Timely Human Rights Reminder

The question is whether, in light of growing human rights problems from China and Russia to the Middle East and North Africa, the United States is doing enough to factor human rights into its foreign policy.
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Why Women Shouldn?t Support Obama

The president has shown in recent weeks that while he may be interested in their votes, he doesn?t really value women?s interests.
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Hugo Chavez's Terminal Mystery Cancer And Venezuela's Looming Power Vacuum

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been receiving treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer for more than a year now. He has been in power since 1999 and intends to run for re-election in October, but questions remain about whether his health will hold up and who could replace him in the event it does not.
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Romney Opens New Front In Critique Of Obama: Syria

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has opened a new front in his critique of President Obama's foreign policy, assailing the president's lack of leadership on Syria and calling for the United States to arm the Syrian opposition.
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'Drones-Only Approach' -- How Obama Chooses Whom To Kill

Backed by a muscular interpretation of executive power, the Obama administration has made armed drones the centerpiece of its counter-terror arsenal, stepping up strikes in Pakistan and expanding the campaign into Yemen and Somalia.
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Golden Gate Bridge History Spans 75 Years This Sunday

The Golden Gate Bridge -- across the Golden Gate Strait between San Francisco and Marin County -- was a larger-than-life engineering project undertaken against dangerous odds, and it opened 75 years ago on Sunday against vehement protest, at the cost of 11 lives.
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Erskine Bowles Not Interested in Treasury Post

Former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, whose name has surfaced as a potential successor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, said Sunday he does not want the job and has not been asked by Democratic President Barack Obama.

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