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Postal Service Proposes Price Changes (Popularity:  )
http://www.usps.com
A new Forever Stamp image will be available as part of a pricing package that would add less than 13 cents a month to the average American household's budget.The U.S. Postal Service Governors recommended increasing the price of a First-Class stamp 2 cents to 46 cents and authorized the production of a pane of four evergreen tree branches as the newest image for Forever Stamps. The price of a postcard ...
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American Rivers Announces America's Most Endangered Rivers™ of 2010 (Popularity: )
http://www.americanrivers.org
American Rivers today released its most anticipated report of the year, America's Most Endangered Rivers™ of 2010. The 25th anniversary edition of the report spotlights ten rivers facing the most urgent threats, and also features key endangered river success stories from the past two decades. The number one river on the America's Most Endangered Rivers list is the Upper Delaware, where gas drilling threatens the drinking water for 17 million ...
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Transparency Should Not Be a Luxury; It Is a Matter of Life and Death: What Purchasers and Consumers Can Do (Popularity: )
http://leapfroggroup.org
The following is a statement by Leah Binder, CEO of The Leapfrog Group, on Leapfrog's release of Central-line Infection Data:For the first time, in 2009, The Leapfrog Group asked hospitals across the country on behalf of Leapfrog's purchaser members to publicly report their rates of one of the most common and deadly forms of hospital-acquired infections: central-line associated blood stream infections, or CLABSIs.Leapfrog is partnering with Consumer Reports Health to ...
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Global Health Efforts Make Progress Against Child Deaths (Popularity: )
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org
Recent initiatives in global health have made significant advances in knowledge, prevention and reduction of diseases affecting children in low-income countries.Those advances will be the subject of discussion on Sunday, May 3, at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Baltimore. The discussion will be led by Mark C. Steinhoff, MD, director of the Center for Global Child Health Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and Jennifer ...
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Freedom's Watch Announces New Print Advertisement in New York Times on Ahmadinejad's Visit (Popularity: )
http://www.freedomswatch.org
Friday Freedom's Watch President Bradley A. Blakeman released a statement and a copy of the print advertisement it has requested to be run in the Monday edition of the New York Times. "Freedom's Watch could not sit back and allow a terrorist to come to America masquerading as a world leader. We have an obligation to warn the world of the dangers of a nuclear Iran and to uncover the ...
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USAID Sends Assistance in Response to Chile Earthquake (Popularity: )
http://www.usaid.gov/
In response to the earthquake in Chile the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided $1 million to the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), to help with emergency assistance needs. In addition to the $1 million to IFRC, USAID is providing shelter material and mobile water treatment units to assist the people of Chile.The two water treatment units USAID is providing will benefit up to 20,000 people ...
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United States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Palau (Popularity: )
The Department of Justice today announced that six detainees who are Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the Republic of Palau.Ahmad Tourson, Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman, Edham Mamet, Anwar Hassan, Dawut Abdurehim and Adel Noori were resettled in Palau earlier today.These detainees, who were subject to release from Guantanamo Bay as a result of court orders, had ...
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Cecil Field Petition Drive Signature Deadline Moved Up to Sunday at 6 p.m. (Popularity: )
http://www.votejacksonville.com
The VoteJacksonville.com Coalition today announced that 6 p.m. Sunday is the new deadline to deliver signatures to the Supervisor of Elections Office to put the question of returning the Navy Master Jet Base to Cecil Field on the September primary ballot. The announcement comes as the petition drive added more than four thousand signatures to its total -- bringing the raw number of signatures collected to more than 24-thousand. The ...
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President Obama's BP Speech Hits the Low-Water Mark Among Americans (Popularity: )
http://www.hcdi.net
A series of national media studies conducted on President Obama's speeches during his seventeen months in office revealed that Americans ranked his speech on the BP oil spill as the lowest ranked speech to date.The studies were conducted by HCD Research, using its MediaCurves.com® website from January 2009 to June 2010, to obtain Americans' perceptions of various speeches that were given by President Barack Obama during his term in office.The ...
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2010 Census Advertising Named Multicultural and Best Branded Campaign of the Year (Popularity: )
http://www.census.gov
The U.S. Census Bureau is being recognized by Mediaweek, a leading advertising industry trade publication, for its 2010 Census advertising campaign - winning both the "Best Multicultural Campaign" and "Best Branded Content" awards in the publication's Media Plan of the Year competition.The primary purpose of the advertising efforts were to educate and motivate households to mail back their 2010 Census forms when they arrived in March - more than 72 ...
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