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The Filter: To Your Health!

Mar 22, 2010 – 9:40 AM
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Paul Wachter

Paul Wachter Contributor

(March 22) -- With so many news aggregators out there, who can keep up? AOL News filters the filters to steer you to the headlines that really matter.

Skip Those, Read This: Everyone leads with the Democrats' historic victory in the House, which passed health care reform by a 219-212 vote Sunday. The Slatest picks up Politico's coverage of the vote. The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast lead with a breakdown, courtesy of Crooks and Liars, of 10 changes that will take effect within the next six months. Slate's political reporter, John Dickerson, has a good retrospective on the long process that culminated in the bill's passage.

More Health Care: The aggregators understandably go several stories deep on health care reform. The Slatest picks up a Washington Post report focusing on Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., the abortion foe who switched his vote from no to yes. An unidentified Republican legislator yelled "baby killer" at him as Stupak was speaking to his colleagues. The Daily Beast picks up another Politico story, this one on House Speaker Nancy's Pelosi's efforts to get the bill passed. The Beast also picks up a Washington Post report on the House's passage of reforms to student loans. These reforms were attached to health care amendments.

Peace Talks in Kabul:
The Slatest picks up a BBC report on Afghanistan, where a major insurgent group, Hezb-e-Islami, has agreed to sit down with President Hamid Karzai for peace talks. The "group has battled NATO and Afghan forces in Afghanistan's east and north for years, while the Taliban have led the insurgency in the south," the BBC reports. It is calling for new elections and U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan by summer, a year before an announced pullback by President Barack Obama is set to begin.

Catch of the Day: If you need a diversion from all the health care reportage today, Pat's Papers picks up a fascinating Boston Globe story on a 10-year census of the ocean's marine life that's near completion. Scientists have found "tubeworms that imbibe crude oil; a crustacean so shaggy it might be answering a casting call for Broadway's 'Hair'; and a sort of singles cafe for sharks where great whites cruise hungrily for sex." The $650 million project, involving some 2,000 scientists from 80 countries, has uncovered thousands of new creatures. "If we can see what's in the ocean, we may be more mindful of conserving it,'' said MIT's Nicholas Makris.

Sports News: Tiger Woods gave his first interviews, to ESPN and the Golf Channel, since revelations about his many extramarital affairs, and The Daily Beast picks up ESPN's coverage. The golfer was predictably contrite and said no one in his entourage of agents, handlers or caddies knew of his actions. He plans to return to golf at the Masters, which he has won four times. The Beast also picks up another ESPN story, on March Madness, focusing on Cornell's advance to the Sweet 16, the first time an Ivy League team has gotten that far since the University of Pennsylvania's run in 1979. Cornell, which beat Wisconsin, now faces Kentucky, one of three No. 1 seeds remaining in the field. Kansas, the overall favorite, was bounced in the second round by Northern Iowa.
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