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Democrats Tout $940B Health Bill After CBO Score

8 hours 45 minutes ago |AP

WASHINGTON (March 18) -- House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise t ...

Wal-Mart 'Appalled' by Racial Announcement

1 hour 9 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- Authorities in southern New Jersey are trying to find the man who made an announcement in a Walmart store asking "all black people" to leave the store. The company said it was "appalled ...

Virginia Tech Rattled by Online Threats

2 hours 29 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- The police insist the threats are not credible, but Virginia Tech is on edge. Almost three years after 32 people were massacred on campus, the university has been threatened in e-mails ...

Say It Ain't Snow: Winter Isn't Over Yet

5 hours 52 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- Spring fever gripped much of the nation this week, with generally mild, dry weather from coast to coast. The weather, however, is about to issue a reminder that the calendar says March, ...

Biden: I Got Tips From Tiger

2 hours 42 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- Gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden seemed comfortable in the role of stand-up comedian at a media dinner, going over the top with jokes about Rahm Emanuel, Tiger Woods and Middle East ...

Musician Alex Chilton of Big Star, Box Tops Dies at 59

8 hours 21 minutes ago |PopEater

(March 18) -- Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who topped the charts as a teen and later became a cult hero with the band Big Star, died Wednesday. He was 59. Chilton died at a hospital in New Orle ...

Invisibility Cloak Edges Closer to Reality

1 hour 41 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- Harry Potter's version was certainly handy. Frodo Baggins used one to save himself on a few occasions. Ricky Gervais sidekick Karl Pilkington mused about what it would be like to shop w ...

More Clues Found in Mystery of Adolescent Brain

55 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- Any parent or middle-school teacher could tell you that adolescents often have, shall we say, a resistance to learning. In fact, behavioral scientists have shown that certain cognitive ...

Why Bluefin Tuna Talks Were Recipe for Disaster

1 hour 53 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- Sink or swim? For one especially valuable fish, failed conservation talks mean the former is far more likely. A United Nations-backed wildlife conference in Qatar canned a proposal aime ...

Driving Blind? We May Live to See the Day

6 hours 25 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- With public opinion divided over just how dangerous it is for motorists to text-message or yak on cell phones, imagine the debate taking a wildly unexpected turn: How would you feel abo ...

Human Egg Giveaway Sparks Ethical Controversy

3 hours 16 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- An American fertility clinic's decision to host a giveaway of eggs for in vitro fertilization treatment has renewed an ongoing international debate over a complicated, and highly person ...

Essay: What Madness Makes Us Hate Duke?

1 hour 36 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- It's that time of the year again -- March Madness -- and just as dependable as the office pool and the Cinderella run is that other accompanying pleasure of the tournament: watching bas ...