Southeast Asia to have rights monitor

Southeast Asian nations unveil a landmark human rights watchdog this week, but critics charge that it will be both toothless and include in its membership one of the world's worst human rights offenders — military-ruled Myanmar.

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Thunder's Mullens overcomes tough times

B.J. Mullens has seen the worst and made the best of it.

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What should be on Obama's ‘to do’ list?

Now that Barack Obama has been elected the nation’s 44th president, he faces the heavy burden of high hopes and expectations.

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Online tool estimates taxes under McCain, Obama

Voters whose bottom line is taxes can use a new online tool to calculate what their own bottom line would be with the IRS under a Barack Obama or John McCain administration.

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In an effort to avoid what could be President Obama's first major legislative setback, congressional Democrats are struggling to drum up support for unified health care reform legislation after the top budget scorekeeper hit them with a damaging assessment of the plans on the tab …

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The defaults are filled in with U.S. average monthly income and expenses for each category, but go ahead and fill in with your own data.

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Testing kits that allow people to check the strength of drugs they have bought in order to commit suicide are to be sold in the UK by one of the world's leading advocates of euthanasia.

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It's normal to not always be in love with motherhood. Momlogic's recent post "I Can Relate to Casey Anthony" created an uproar of comments and criticisms. In the post, blogger Frazzled Mom expresses how, at times, she empathizes with accused child killer Casey Anthony.

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Although far more Massachusetts residents have health insurance coverage than residents nationwide, a significant portion of Bay Staters are still struggling to pay for needed healthcare, a new survey shows.

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India's Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, often hailed as one of the most balanced finance ministers of India has shown the world that he is a politician first and a financial planner only later.

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The storm is building - the Crescendo is rising .. against the pain of suppressive taxation - That £billions of tax revenue are being wasted is now beyond doubt.

At last, it is beginning to dawn on even labour supporting media that the governments policy of tax and spend is destroying the economy, as well as damaging the hard working members of the community that work more and see less real income as so much goes on taxation.....

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Dutch researchers have confirmed what fat smokers have waited years to hear - that healthy people are actually a greater burden on the state, because they live longer and oblige the taxpayer to deal with the cost of "lingering diseases of old age like Alzheimer's and Parkinson …

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The Overwhelming Burden of the Overweight

I am 53 years old, 5'10" tall and I weigh 190 pounds. According to the Body Mass Index (BMI) I am overweight. I even look fat and have developed a paunch. A person is considered overweight when their BMI is over 25. Mine is 27.3. A BMI of 30 is obese.

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People express their discomfort in various ways. There are a range of reactions. Some people say they're afraid of saying/doing the wrong thing and refuse to take responsibility to learn how to be around people with disabilities.

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School districts sued by the parents of special-education students should be forced to prove in court that their services meet the child's needs, the state's public advocate says.

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