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Debate Nielsen numbers game
Vice-president trumps president on the American audience applause meter
Hospitals hope to clean up infection problem
American hospitals hope to reverse growing problem: patients infected while undergoing treatment.
The double take
What would you do as a Maryland beat writer if you saw "fires off. coordinator Franklin" as the end of a headline?
W.H. Auden and Ridley Scott
A closer look at the poem that opens Ridley Scott's new film, "Body of Lies"
Site maps foreclosures by congressional district
Hotpads.com lets users see who in their neighborhood has foreclosed and compares them by electoral district. California is topping the charts.
College Park: Top-100 sports town?
The Sporting News is out with its rankings ... and the always-interesting CP is a little higher than anticipated
Global crisis hits world's malnourished
The World Bank expects the number of malnourished people around the world to increase by 44 million to 967 million this year because of high food and fuel prices.
Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Race 10 at Homestead-Miami Speedway
Grab this widget for your Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking pages, and get ready for the season finale, which will determine the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion.
Opening the mailbag
Loyal reader Slatter checks in with a seemingly evergreen question from the last four years
Americans Spend $86 Billion a Year on Neck and Back Pain
Researchers reported in The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that Americans are spending $86 billion a year on treating neck and back pain, probably more than any other ailment. Click for More Information about Obesity Surgery
It's a job and somebody's got to do it
But nobody wants it, so let's just pick the guy at the end of the row.
How Obesity Abets Type 2 Diabetes
Human fat can be healthy or sick – healthy in lean people and sick in obese. And a new research effort shows sick fat cells can produce proteins that contribute to type 2 diabetes.
"Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family."
The McCain campaign has released a statement from John M. Murtaugh, who as a child had his house firebombed by the Weather Underground and who links the group's founder, William Ayers, to Barack Obama.
"Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family."
The McCain campaign has released a statement from John M. Murtaugh, who as a child had his house firebombed by the Weather Underground and who links the group's founder, William Ayers, to Barack Obama.
