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January 11, 2007

Reaction to Bush’s Iraq Speech

Condoleeza Rice and Robert Gates are on Capitol Hill, where the topic is Iraq. And we look back at President Bush’s speech outlining his plan for more troops in Iraq.

A Woman for Harvard

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Harvard University is searching for a president. We look at some of the candidates for the job and ask, “What if Harvard has a woman at the helm?”

Sports Update

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The world of sports with Only A Game’s Bill Littlefield.

Viva Las Vegas!

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Las Vegas loves Elvis. Here & Now’s Karyn Miller-Medzon ran the Las Vegas Marathon and found lots of Elvis’s running with her. And show girls, too.

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Monday, June 17, 2013
Cancer patient Lynne Lobel, 47, watches a television program as she gets chemotherapy treatment at Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas, September 2005. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

The sequester budget cuts mean lower reimbursements for chemotherapy drugs for Medicare patients — a change that’s forcing some cancer clinics to turn away patients, in order to make ends meet.

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Friday, June 14, 2013
Paul Eisenstein is publisher of "The Detroit Bureau."

We usually talk to reporter Paul Eisenstein about cars, but when he mentioned he’d recently had a brush with death, we wanted to know more.

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Thursday, June 13, 2013
The sun sets behind the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant in Emmett, Kan. in December 2012. (Charlie Riedel/AP)

The International Energy Agency is warning that unless nations take urgent action to reduce carbon dioxide levels, average temperatures on the earth could rise by more than nine degrees Fahrenheit.

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