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DHEC fuel tank cleanup program falls short (The State)

The state’s environmental agency has known for years that leaking fuel tanks are the culprit in 80 percent of the polluted groundwater cases across South Carolina. But the agency consistently has failed to make cleaning up the mess a budget priority — in a state where one in four residents drinks from a well, records show. Only once since 1997 has the state Department of Health and Environmental ...

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Unemployment benefits drying up; Georgia's stable (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The safety net for the nation's unemployed is fraying just as the country heads into a serious downturn. The system created 73 years ago by President Franklin Roosevelt to help out-of-work Americans weather the Great Depression is straining to make it through the current economic crisis. In fact, many states will not be able to pay unemployment benefits in a protracted recession without federal ...

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Despite national guidelines, private insurers, ER, federal and state agencies fail to routinely test for HIV (EurekAlert!)

( Forum for Collaborative HIV Research ) The Forum for Collaborative HIV Research convened a national summit on Nov. 19-21, at which some 300 leading HIV researchers, health care providers, and policymakers shared new data on the advances and barriers to early, routine HIV testing, considered a key to slowing the US epidemic which now encompasses more than 1.1 million Americans living with HIV.

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Most Talked About Stories (The Daily Iberian)

The Housing Authority of New Iberia is upset the city is requiring it to pave a city street leading into its development at the cost of more than $40,000, while another developer is splitting the $30,000 cost of repairing a city street its trucks destroyed.

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Breakdown of House Committees: Increased Majority Gives Democrats a Clearer Path to Enactment of Agenda (CQPolitics.com via Yahoo! News)

Agriculture | Appropriations | Armed Services | Budget | Education and Labor | Energy and Commerce | Financial Services | Foreign Affairs | Homeland Security | House Administration | Intelligence | Judiciary | Natural Resources | Oversight and Government Reform | Rules | Science and Technology | Small Business | Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics) | Transportation and Infrastructure | ...

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Magnetic treatment lifts some depression (The Columbus Dispatch)

WASHINGTON -- Steve Newman had suffered from major depression since age 13.

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Doctors Hesitate to Discuss Fertility Preservation With Cancer Patients (Newswise)

Although some teenagers and young adults become infertile following cancer treatment, physicians are hesitant to discuss options to preserve fertility with patients, according to a new Florida study. Yet guidelines recommend that the discussion take place "at the earliest possible opportunity."

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