Year: 2014

By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Worries about Ebola are chipping away at some congressional Republicans’ support for maintaining across-the-board spending caps on U.S. government agencies and the military. An increasing number of Republicans are speaking out in favor of Ebola “emergency” funds, which would be passed outside of the normal budget process, and would not require offsetting spending cuts or explicit sources of revenue. …
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12 as part of a Healthy Eating Adventure dinner at Wilson College. … She showed slides documenting weight loss, reduction in cholesterol numbers, …
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will stop issuing visas to people from those West African nations where the Ebola virus is widespread, the government said on Friday. The federal citizenship ministry, explaining the move, said in an official document that “the introduction or spread of the disease would pose an imminent and severe risk to public health in Canada”.
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By Louis Charbonneau and Bill Berkrot NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Friday defended federal guidelines for monitoring health workers returning from three Ebola-stricken West African countries while urging greater coordination to contain the outbreak in Guinea. There is a growing controversy in the United States over some states ordering 21-day quarantines for nurses and doctors returning after treating Ebola patients, an idea that medical experts have criticized. …
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Just like many who have tried countless diets, George made attempts to lose weight and failed. In the book he tells his dinner guests, “Every time I had …
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(Reuters) – A brief look at Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which suffered a setback on Friday to its plans for a new era of space tourism when its experimental spaceship crashed during a test flight in California: SpaceShipTwo was designed and built by Scaled Composites, a Mojave, California-based subsidiary of defense contractor Northrop Grumman. Virgin Galactic is owned by Branson’s London-based Virgin Group, with outside investment from Aabar Investments, which is controlled by the Abu Dhabi government. …
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