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CDC: Diabetes Cases Soaring, Obesity Related

The CDC’s latest numbers on diabetes confirm that the disease is skyrocketing in the U.S. Seven out of 1,000 U.S. adults aged 18-79 years were newly diagnosed with diabetes in 2003. That’s 41 percent higher than the number in 1997 (five new cases out of 1,000 people). The numbers were …

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Official: Chemical Plant Protections Inadequate

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers are looking to impose mandatory standards to protect chemical plants from terror attacks after a Bush administration report showed that federal legislation is needed to close the gap left by voluntary compliance. Sen. Susan Collins (search), R-Maine, chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, …

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Amnesty Chief: 'Gulag' Not the Best Analogy

WASHINGTON – The American head of Amnesty International admits his group did not pick the best analogy when it compared detainee conditions at Guantanamo Bay (search) to the Soviet-era “gulag” forced-labor system. “There are only about 70,000 in U.S. detention facilities, and to the best of our knowledge, they are …

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