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Swimming pool lanes etiquette - 11 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Appropriately clad in a Speedo, swim cap and nose plugs, Bob Axelrod told me a story.



A few setbacks and changes in routine to lose 10 pounds - 11 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Me Minus 10 got off to a rocky start two weeks ago: No sooner had I pledged to lose 10 pounds than I got, first, a GI-tract malady and then a wicked head cold (both now resolved). Neither helped me mentally or physically. Nor did learning, upon purchase of a new scale, that I have 12, not 10 poun...




Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: Letters about Me Minus 10 - 11 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Two things I've learned since launching my Me Minus 10 campaign to lose 10 pounds before I turn 50 in December: Many people want to lose 10 pounds -- and many would like to have cartoon images made of themselves! I've received tons of great feedback; here are some of your letters.



Criticism mounts against Obama's plans to change NASA strategy - 9 Mar 2010 at 4:15pm - Harrison Schmitt's credentials as a space policy analyst include several days of walking on the moon. The Apollo 17 astronaut, who is also a former U.S. senator, is aghast at what President Obama is doing to the space program.



Some Muslims wary of Census - 9 Mar 2010 at 4:03pm - In first count since 9/11, idea of answering any questions posed by government causes unease.



Massa under investigation for allegedly groping male staffers - 9 Mar 2010 at 4:03pm - Former representative. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) has been under investigation for allegations that he groped multiple male staffers working in his office, according to three sources familiar with the probe.



Gates tours broken, abandoned market that has come to symbolize progress in A... - 9 Mar 2010 at 3:27pm - NOW ZAD, AFGHANISTAN -- This southern Afghan city has been touted as a symbol of the progress U.S. troops have made in recent weeks. But when Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates swung through the main market on Tuesday, it seemed mostly to be a symbol of the work that remains to be done.



Bill to reserve one-third of legislative seats for women advances in India - 9 Mar 2010 at 3:24pm - NEW DELHI -- Indian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a historic bill that would set aside one-third of all legislative seats for women, a move aimed at overturning six decades of male-dominated decision-making in this country.




Massa investigated for allegedly groping staffers - 9 Mar 2010 at 3:02pm - Allegations surrounding ex-lawmaker date back at least a year, and involve "a pattern of behavior and physical harassment," says one source.



Letterman avoids trial as ex-CBS producer pleads guilty in extortion case - 9 Mar 2010 at 2:45pm - David Letterman avoided a potentially messy trial that would have focused on his affairs with "Late Show" staffers as a former CBS News producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempting to extort $2 million from the comedian.



Some Muslims, fearing backlash, worry about intent of Census forms - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:21pm - The millions of blue forms being mailed this month in the first census count since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, do not ask about religion. But the idea of answering any questions posed by the government makes some Muslims uneasy, so community leaders are worried that many may avoid th...




Are benefits still temporary? - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00pm - Unemployed say extensions help to tide them over, but critics fear program may discourage work.



Biden assures Israel of support - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00pm - Vice president stresses personal love for Jewish state, administration's commitment to security.



Harry Smith colonoscopy to air on `Early Show' - 9 Mar 2010 at 10:06am - "The Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith is scheduled to have a colonoscopy Wednesday, with live reports planned as he undergoes the procedure at a New York hospital.



Biden assures Israel of U.S. security commitment - 9 Mar 2010 at 8:32am - JERUSALEM -- Vice President Biden met with top Israeli officials Tuesday and stressed his personal love for the Jewish state as well as the "unshakeable'' commitment of the United States to Israel's security.



Mosquito season approaches - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - First it was just swatting. Then poison. Then sterilizing males. Is there anything people won't try in the war against mosquitoes? The latest idea: Genetic engineering that results in flightless females.



Math and blogging - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Wired magazine, March issue It's the hottest topic in applied math today: compressed sensing (as opposed to all those other topics that we've been so, ahem, diligently tracking). CS is an algorithm that takes low-resolution files and transforms them into sharp images. For instance, a blurry digit...



Dinosaur extinction followed asteroid impact 65 million years ago, panel says - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - It's official: The extinction of the dinosaurs and a host of other species 65.5 million years ago was caused by a massive asteroid that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, creating worldwide havoc, according to an international team of researchers.



Dry cleaning usually uses a toxic chemical, but the safety picture is unclear - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - I live around the corner from a dry cleaner, but there's also a "green" dry cleaner on the other side of town. Am I total jerk if I keep going to my regular spot?




Answering the question about the safety of federal workplaces - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - After Thursday's shooting at the entrance to the Pentagon -- which ended with the wounding of two security officers and the death of shooter John Patrick Bedell -- Washington Post reporters visited several federal sites.



Sens. Feingold and McCain still trying to trim presidential appointees - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Sens. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday introduced a bill to slash the number of presidential political appointees, both full-time and part-time, from about 3,500 to 2,000 employees.




Federal faces: David Fahey, research physicist at NOAA - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Research physicist Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration



Pentagon shooting puts federal building security back in spotlight - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - House members will resume discussions next week about federal building security in the wake of last week's shooting at the Pentagon -- the latest attack on federal facilities across the country.



Bankruptcy law doesn't restrict free speech, Supreme Court says - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - A federal law that bars attorneys from telling clients who are contemplating bankruptcy to take on more debt is not an unconstitutional restriction on the free-speech rights of lawyers, the Supreme Court decided Monday.



Corrections - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - -- A Dec. 31 A-section article about Rep. John P. Murtha's use of earmarks for federal spending projects, and the extent to which the numbers of jobs promised were delivered, incorrectly said that in 2005 the Pennsylvania Democrat steered $150 million to Caracal Inc., a technology company opening in...




Politics & The Nation - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Supreme Court to rule on funeral protests A3 Conservatives point to claim by Massa A3



Analysis finds uneasy mix in auto industry and regulation - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Dozens of former federal officials are playing leading roles in helping carmakers handle federal investigations of auto defects, including those for Toyota's runaway-acceleration problems.



Obama launches attack on health insurance companies - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - The White House is mounting a stinging, sustained broadside against health insurance rate increases as President Obama and his aides enter what they hope will be the final stretch of a year-long political war over health-care reform.



Immigrant rights group slam Obama, Democrats for slow action with legalizatio... - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Leaders of nearly a dozen grass-roots immigrant rights groups excoriated President Obama and congressional Democrats on Monday, accusing them of moving too slowly to legalize the status of undocumented immigrants and citing a record number of deportations in 2009.



Greece seeks U.S. help regulating speculators - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will seek President Obama's support at the White House on Tuesday for a European campaign to crack down on global financial speculation that critics say has exacerbated Europe's worst debt crisis in decades.



(no title) - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - 1st Lt. Joseph D. Helton, 24 Monroe Ga. 6th Security Forces Squadron, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.



Gates sees momentum in Afghanistan but plays down prospects for reconciliation - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - KABUL -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that recent military offensives against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan had gained momentum but that a reconciliation effort proposed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai was unlikely in the near term to cause senior Taliban leaders to lay down...



Foreign Digest: Pakistan, Iran, China, Guantanamo, Dubai, Haiti - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Pakistan The Pakistani Taliban, an umbrella militant group that had been weakened in recent months, staged a forceful resurgence Monday with an attack that killed at least 12 in the heartland city of Lahore. As the workday began, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-packed truck into an unmarked...




Biden visits Middle East; Israel and Palestinians agree to indirect talks - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - JERUSALEM -- Vice President Biden arrived in Israel on Monday to boost U.S. efforts to mediate talks between Israelis and Palestinians amid criticism that the Obama administration has set back the peace process.



Pentagon resists Army's desire to stop development of MEADS missile system - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Another battle is brewing at the Pentagon over a costly weapons program that many military leaders do not want but that so far has proven difficult to kill.



Abusive Congolese colonel got aid - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - NGUNGU, CONGO -- The United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo provided food, fuel and logistical support to a Congolese colonel overseeing soldiers accused of gang rapes, massacres and other abuses, months after U.N. human rights investigators included him on a list of the army's most...



Zabul province seeks U.S. troops, but is caught in Afghan numbers game - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - QALAT, AFGHANISTAN -- To work in Zabul province these days is to feel forsaken.



If only financial reform really were funny - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - In a hilarious video plug for the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the popular comedy Web site funnyordie.com gathers Saturday Night Live's famed presidential impersonators -- from Chevy Chase to Will Farrell -- to advise a slumbering Barack Obama (Fred Armisen). Dana Carvey, reprising Daddy Bush, tersely sums up the whole shebang about financial reform:

When 'reconciliation' equals leadership - 9 Mar 2010 at 12:00am - Googling to my heart's content on a recent eve, I decided to match "health care" with "ram" to see what would happen. What I got was about 9.8 million hits, some of them right on the nose and reflecting the current conservative meme that after more than a year, several votes, countless presidential speeches and having to look upon the face of Harry Reid some 10,000 times, the health-care bill is being "rammed" through Congress -- an absurdity that now has currency through sheer repetition. It is not exactly the renowned vaunted Big Lie, just a miserable little one.