Conservatives strongly oppose President Obama’s call for a tax on millionaires, but there are signs that Americans may be more open to the idea, which is popular in Europe.
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Obama’s Tax on Millionaires
Think snail mail is too slow? Imagine if it got slower. The U.S. Postal Service could save about $1.5 billion a year if it relaxed its two-to-three-day delivery schedules for first-class and Priority Mail deliveries by a day, according to a new study. Postal executives are seriously considering the idea and are expected to announce plans regarding delivery schedules after Labor Day, according to USPS officials. Read full article > >
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Study: USPS could save $1.5 billion with slower mail
High concentrations of bacteria found in the centres of hailstones add to the idea that bacteria may stimulate precipitation in order to get around.
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Bacteria ‘abound in hailstones’
Nick Clegg will oppose the idea of a regulator to promote competition in the NHS as part of government health reforms, the BBC learns.
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Clegg fights NHS competition body
Doubts have been raised over the idea that being overweight and ‘apple shaped’ increases heart attack risk
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‘Apple shape’ heart risk doubts
Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn says they would be open to the idea of moving from Brisbane Road to the Olympic hockey stadium in Olympic Park.
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Hearn open to hockey stadium move
Labour leader Ed Miliband says he is “appalled” by the idea of trade unions planning strikes on Royal Wedding day.
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Labour: Wedding day strikes wrong
Premier League managers come out against the idea of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar being played in January.
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Bosses criticise 2022 switch plan
The roadmaps showing the way out of our 1.4 trillion dollar federal deficit almost always begin at the same starting points. During 2010, it became taken-for-granted that today’s record-setting red ink is a result of unrestrained government spending — especially stimulus spending. And the idea that the economic upturn in jobs and growth will begin with deficit reduction has become widely perceived as ‘common sense’. read more
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2011: Jobs Versus The Deficit
A new study has cast further doubt on the idea that a virus called XMRV causes chronic fatigue syndrome.
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More doubt over viral link to ME
Researchers have developed a simple geometrical method to add weight to the idea that ours is a flat, dark-energy-rich Universe.
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Dark energy flattens the Universe
At a Queens slaughterhouse committed to the idea that people should know where their food comes from, customers select and kill animals of their choosing.
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City Critic: The Main Course Had an Unhappy Face…
Comedian Bobby Davro has rejected the idea of renaming the Surrey town of Staines to improve its image.
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Davro on ‘Staines-upon-Thames’
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently uncovered two ways the government has been tracking people online. First, the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security uses social-networking sites to investigate citizenship petitions, the idea being…
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Gov’t Uses Social Media to Check Citizenship
In an interview with Larry King set to air Monday, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai laughs at the idea that he’s manic depressive. The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, is quoted in Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars as saying…
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Karzai Denies He’s Manic Depressive
