CDC: Diabetes amputations falling dramatically (AP)

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 1:14 am  
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AP – Foot and leg amputations were once a honestly common fate for diabetics, but new government research shows a dramatic decline in limbs lost to the disease, doubtless due to best treatments.
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STIMULUS WATCH: Weatherizing program falling short (AP)

Saturday, March 27th, 2010 at 9:31 pm  
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Roseann Mitchell, of the Community Action Agency, checks carbon monoxide levels in a home as part of a combustion appliance safety test Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, in San Francisco. One year after the president unveiled a new stimulus-funded program to create jobs by saving energy, the Weatherization Assistance Program is lagging so far behind that critics question whether it will ever achieve either goal. Nationwide, the $5 billion program has only retrofitted 30,250 people's homes and added 12,925 new jobs, a far cry from the 87,000 people the Department of Energy said would find work through partnerships with states and local governments. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP – After a year of crippling delays, President Barack Obama’s $5 billion program to install weather-forceful windows and doors has retrofitted a part of homes and made far fewer construction jobs than expected.


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Japan’s consumer prices keep falling in February (AP)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 11:46 pm  
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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2009, file photo, a woman walks by a shop with sale signs in Tokyo, Japan. Japan says consumer prices kept falling in February as deflation strengthened its grip on the world's second biggest economy. The core consumer price index, which excludes fresh food, retreated 1.2 percent from a year earlier, the government said Friday March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP – Japan’s consumer prices kept falling in February as deflation strengthened its hold on the world’s second largest economy.


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Official: ACORN disbanding amid falling revenues (AP)

Monday, March 22nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm  
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AP – A spokesman for the once mighty community activist group ACORN says the group is disbanding.

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More snow falling in Okla., Ark. spring blizzard (AP)

Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at 9:47 pm  
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Toby Sumner, of Ritzman Lawn Service, clears snow in front of a Weaver's Department Store window Saturday, March 20, 2010, in Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP – More snow fell Sunday as part of a powerful storm blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the initially weekend of spring.


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