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Geotimes May 2005 Sara Pratt	Soot From Indian Cooking A new study says that residential cooking -- with stoves that burn wood, crop waste and dried animal manure -- is actually the largest source of soot emissions in India. Understanding this pollution source could have an important role in bettering both air quality and climate models.
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	More Mercury in Unexpected Places As U.S. policy-makers debate new control measures for mercury emissions, a series of studies has painted a picture that shows mercury contamination reaches even further than previously documented.
Geotimes May 2005 David Applegate	Lessons From Sumatra In the months following the December 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists and their colleagues around the world have been working hard to learn from the tragedy so that such loss of life does not happen again.
Geotimes May 2005 Linda Rowan	Clear Skies Clouded in Legislative Discontent President Bush's Clear Skies Initiative was introduced on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2002; however, it was not love at first sight in congressional chambers.
Managed Care April 2005 John Carroll	Can Managed Care Programs Rein in Medicaid's Runaway Budgets? Cadillac or Yugo care for the poor? Fee-for-service or managed care? The states have a lot on their minds as the Medicaid monster grows and grows.
Managed Care April 2005	Persistence Key In Blues Battle Against Fraud The health insurer's latest salvo against alleged medical crookedness was splashed across headlines around the country last month when news broke about the notorious rent-a-patient scam.
AskMen.com Bernie Alexander	5 Things You Didn't Know About Interrogation Techniques To what lengths are officials permitted to go when questioning suspects? Here are five things you probably didn't know about interrogation techniques.
ifeminists April 27, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Transparency Crucial For Accountability For over a year, medical-rights watchdogs and some media voices have demanded transparency on the New York City Administration for Children's Services experimental AIDS drug trials. Why has it taken so long?
ifeminists April 27, 2005 Carey Roberts	New Catholic Patriarch May Derail Hillary's White House Plans Shortly before the Cardinals commenced their papal deliberations, then-Cardinal Ratzinger delivered a homily singling out liberalism, collectivism, and Marxism as sources of perversion and error. That pretty much sums up Hillary's whole political philosophy.
Smithsonian May 2005 Christopher Hall	Homage to the Anchovy Coast You may not want them on your pizza, but along the Mediterranean they're a prized delicacy-and a cultural treasure. But Catalan anchovies are being threatened as never before.
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