With encampments largely gone, the challenge is to keep the Occupy cause alive through methods like strikes and protests, which risk alienating people rather than galvanizing them.

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Occupy Movement Regroups, Laying Plans for the Next Phase

A White House consultant’s report said Friday that the Energy Department should bolster its ability to assess loan guarantee risks in the wake of the Solyndra bankruptcy, and urged the department to “aggressively strengthen its position” before more borrowers turn to the government for relief. Read full article > >

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Consultant suggests changes to Energy Department’s loan reviews in the wake of Solyndra

The Treasury is criticised for the way it monitors government spending and manages risk, in an MPs’ report.

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Accounts ‘expose Treasury flaws’

A study suggests a quarter of today’s UK children are living in families with two or more risk factors to their educational development.

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Education ‘risk factors’ listed

A top girls’ school is planning a “failure week” to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes.

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Top girls learn value of failure

Drinking “just a little more than they should” puts people at risk of serious illness including heart disease, stroke and cancer, the government is warning.

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‘A little too much drink’ warning

The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. Read full article > >

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FDA workers sue agency over monitoring personal e-mails

It’s fair to think of the 1971 Tony-winning musical “Two Gentlemen of Verona” as “ Hair II ”: same composer (Galt MacDermot), same gestalt (antiwar, pro-sex, whirling hippies, whoo!). Glow sticks were being handed out at the door over the weekend for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s giggly concert version of the show, although that seems about as close to trippy as director Amanda Dehnert wanted to get. The performance, which closed Sunday, was not especially Day-Glo vibrant or free-love lusty — and from “Night Letter” to “Hot Lover,” the quick-hitting rock tunes percolated with pheromones. But it was a flip, frisky evening and often wonderfully sung. Read full article > >

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‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’: Harman Hall musical, if not trippy, is worth the trip

The Government must stick to pledges to reform party financing – or risk that a scandal will further undermine confidence, MPs have warned.

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Stick to party funding plan – MPs

A Scottish nurse wins the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award for risking her life to treat patients from both sides of the Libyan conflict.

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Nurse secures Robert Burns award

The Pentagon took the first major step toward shrinking after a decade of war, announcing a proposal for budget cuts that is fraught with political risk.

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Pentagon Cuts Would Affect Raises, Insurance and Base Closings

The global economy is slowing sharply and is at far greater risk of recession than was thought just months ago with Europe’s debt crisis creating “fertile ground” for a rapid collapse, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday. Read full article > >

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Saudi Arabia’s Gulf allies joined Riyadh on Tuesday in pulling out of an Arab League monitoring team to Syria, risking the collapse of a mission whose presence has not halted more than 10 months of violence.

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Gulf Arabs Quit Syria Monitoring Mission

A court review in Denver focused on low-risk immigrants, allowing more than 1,000 to stay without legal status.

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In Test of Deportation Policy, 1 in 6 Offered Reprieve

BEIRUT — Growing indications that a deeply divided international community is either unable or unwilling to intervene to halt the violence in Syria are fueling an armed rebellion that risks plunging the country, and perhaps the region, into a wider war. Read full article > >

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In Syria, world inaction fuels armed revolt