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Smithsonian Experts Help Harvey Survivors Restore Family Treasures

While homes and possessions can eventually be replaced, these preservation experts are working to salvage precious family heirlooms.

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Tesla Restores Power to Puerto Rican Children's Hospital- And That's Not All

While some companies can talk a good game, Tesla proves it can actually get things done, restoring electricity to a children's hospital.

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Colorado Joins Paris Climate Agreement

Gov. John Hickenlooper signed an executive order outlining Colorado's support for the treaty's goals on Tuesday.

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First Lady Urges Congress to Pass Bill on School Nutrition

In an op-ed article appearing in Monday's Washington Post, Mrs. Obama encouraged passage of the Child Nutrition Bill pending in Congress which would require more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and less fat and salt in school lunches and breakfasts.

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Don't Forget: The Bailouts Worked (Newsweek Op-Ed)

One year ago, after the fall of Lehman Brothers, the U.S. government made a series of massive moves to restore stability to the financial system. And it's clear that those actions saved the American-and thus the global-economy from total collapse... something that looked like a Great Depression. Yet the policy remains very unpopular. Why?

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Rally to Restore Sanity Ends With Stewart's Hopeful 'Moment of Sincerity'

Nearly a quarter of a million people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC yesterday heeding a call for sanity in response to today's political discourse issued by comedian and fake news reporter Jon Stewart. After almost three hours of skits, music and video montages centering on the rally's two competing ideas of restoring sanity and keeping fear alive, Stewart had the last word with a 12 minute speech exploring the notion that most Americans are reasonable, despite what we see on political campaigns and cable news shows.

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How Obama Saved Capitalism and Lost the Midterms

In an opinion column for the New York Times, Timothy Egan wrote, No matter your view of President Obama, he effectively saved capitalism. And for that, he paid a terrible political price. Read the analysis.

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US Founding Fathers Passed Socialized Medicine With Health Insurance Mandate in 1798

A number of US states are challenging the new health care law on Constitutional grounds. But, a very interesting Forbes article points out that the founding fathers who wrote and signed the Constitution actually authorized, for the good of the new nation's economy, the creation of a government-operated hospital service with a mandate for privately employed sailors to purchase health insurance.