BBC NEWS | Health | Child obesity 'a form of neglect'

Obesity has been a factor in at least 20 child protection cases in the last year, the BBC has learned. Some doctors now believe in extreme cases overfeeding a young child should be seen as a form of abuse or neglect.

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Valerie Wilson Sues C.I.A. Over Memoir - New York Times

"Valerie Wilson, the former Central Intelligence Agency operative at the heart of an investigation that reached into the White House, sued the agency in federal court in New York today over its refusal to allow her to publish a memoir that would discuss how long she worked for it …

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Courtney Love will auction Cobain's stuff

Time to cash in. Courtney Love, widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, says she plans to sell most of his belongings. "I'm going to have a Christie's auction," Love, 42, tells AOL music Web site Spinner.com. "(My house) is like a mausoleum."

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Police 'Tase' UCLA student apparently without cause [VIDEO]

"A report from UCLA's Daily Bruin seems to support what I was initially skeptical of, after watching the harried cell phone video to the right -- that a student was shot repeatedly with a taser by campus police in response to absolutely no threat. Zero.

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Businesses Seek Protection on Legal Front - New York Times

"WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 — Frustrated with laws and regulations that have made companies and accounting firms more open to lawsuits from investors and the government, corporate America — with the encouragement of the Bush administration — is preparing to fight back.

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Wisconsin school principal shot by former student

It is a sad state of affairs when the schools we send our children to become battlegrounds. Has American society degenerated to the point that the only way we understand how to deal with our problems is through violence?

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A war against intelligence

YOU WOULD think that a consensus report from all 16 U.S. intelligence services concluding that he has blown the "war on terror" would be a really big deal to the president. But that assumes that George W. Bush values intelligence.

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British soldier admits war crime

While there have been US criminal trials for soldiers commiting horrific acts on individuals during the war in Iraq, the US does not allow for its troops to be part of the World Court.

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California bans holding cell phones when driving - Yahoo! News

Is this the end of inconsiderate driving? It is nice to think that it will make a difference, but the problem with drivers lies deeper than the cell phone.

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Celebrities passing on red-carpet swag

While this is not of pressing importance, it goesto show how we have established celebrities as the new royalty. Items that normal people have to work, save, and sacrifice for are just given away to celebrities.

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Cheney's Power No Longer Goes Unquestioned - New York Times

This is an interesting look at how Cheney's power within the administration is shifting.

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AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Olbermann rips Bush: 'Have you no sense of decency, sir?'

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Bush admits secret CIA terror detentions

So we didn't torture anyone, we just strongly interrogated them. Welcome Orwellian secret police and civil liberites

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Harris wins nomination in Florida Senate race | News One | Reuters.com

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