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InternetNews April 26, 2006 Roy Mark	GOP Gets It Way on Net Neutrality House Commerce Committee Republicans defeated an effort by Democrats today to strengthen network neutrality provisions in the panel's telecom reform bill.
InternetNews April 26, 2006 Roy Mark	Net Neutrality Debate Heats Up Looking at possible antitrust implications of having telecoms and cable companies controlling 99 percent of U.S. broadband connections, a special task force of the House Judiciary Committee took up network neutrality.
InternetNews April 26, 2006 Alex Goldman	Dialup Shutdown in Massachusetts In the long run, it may mean the return of per-minute dialup pricing. In the short term, non-Verizon dialup customers are cut off in parts of the United States.
Wired May 2006 Alex Nikolai Steffen	The Next Green Revolution How technology is leading environmentalism in the United States out of the anti-business, anti-consumer wilderness.
Wired May 2006 Karen Breslau	The Ressurection of Al Gore He invented the Internet (sort of). He became President (almost). Now Al Gore has found his true calling: using the power of technology to save the world.
InternetNews April 25, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel to Vote on Network Neutrality One committee prepares to vote on a telecom reform bill that Democrats contend lacks effective network neutrality protections, another panel opens hearings on the antitrust implications of just such a scenario.
Sports Central April 25, 2006 Diane M. Grassi	DC Politics Intertwine With MLB Ownership The Nationals are now going to be used by MLB as the poster child for recruiting the black community back to baseball. However, the way it is being done will probably fall on deaf ears to the very ones MLB is supposedly trying to reach.
InternetNews April 24, 2006 Roy Mark	New Coalition Finds No Hope in COPE According to the SaveTheInternet.com Coalition, the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Efficiency Act of 2006 does not guarantee network neutrality since telephone and cable companies will be able to charge content providers different rates based on bandwidth consumption.
Scientific American May 2006	Don't Rob the Cradle In his 2006 budget, President Bush slashed funding for the National Children's Study, designed to ferret out the causes of a multitude of today's most dire and growing health risks, and in his proposed 2007 budget, he eliminated its funding entirely and directed that the study be shut down.
Scientific American May 2006 Paul Raeburn	Legislating Integrity Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois inserted a provision in a funding bill for the Department of Health and Human Services and introduced legislation to prevent political meddling in science.
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