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September 13th, 2009
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Reversing climate change will create green jobs. Tax cuts spur the economy. Everybody wins when everybody is covered by health insurance. Putting the American military to work in the Middle East could bring democracy to the region and American security in its wake. That’s what we’re told, what we’re sold.
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Now a new version of work begins. Work, and also hope. Peter Kinder, Missouri’s lieutenant governor, will send a letter to Gov. Jay Nixon requesting a meeting about continuing the Tour of Missouri next year.
A Kansas City, Kan., girl charged with murder at age 13 faces adult court and many years in prison. A boy who was 13 when he killed a man last year will stay in the juvenile system and could be released when he is 22½, a Wyandotte County judge ruled early this month.
SAN FRANCISCO | Researchers delivered a double dose of good news Sunday in the fight against flu: successful tests of what could become the first new flu medicine in a decade, and the strongest evidence yet that such drugs save lives, not just shorten illness. A single intravenous dose of the experimental drug, peramivir, cleared up flu symptoms as well as five days of Tamiflu pills did, a large study in Asia found. An IV treatment is desperately needed because many sick people can’t swallow pills and because illness hinders the body’s ability to absorb oral medicines.
At 8 p.m., after a long day’s work, Wayne Cauthen — described by an irritated Kansas City mayor as “the most powerful person in the building” — walked across his City Hall office. “Let me show you something,” said the city manager.
The phone calls came in the middle of the night. Three women, each receiving an eerie message from the man on the line: He was in their house and watching them.
As Union Station faces ongoing financial challenges, its management will look into contingency plans in case the historic depot has to be closed. Officials say they do not expect that to happen.
GREENFIELD, Iowa | By getting married, a St. Louis couple brought a tiny measure of economic development last week to this hilly, corn-covered place. Two quiet nights at the Brass Lantern, a bed-and-breakfast off Iowa 92. Dinner at the Old Hotel Restaurant. A chocolate wedding cake, locally bought.
When people gather this month to contemplate the area toll from so many high school dropouts, they are going to meet Vanessa Camacho. The 20-year-old embodies so many of the complexities that make understanding and numbering dropouts a vexing problem.
WASHINGTON | A morning of remembrance turned into one of flashbacks, fear and media missteps Friday when a Coast Guard exercise — unfolding near Pentagon ceremonies marking the Sept. 11, 2001, anniversary — was mistaken as an attack. The false reports of gunfire on the river briefly spooked the capital, sending FBI agents to the scene and grounding flights.