A day after President Obama pressed Congress for spending reductions in his State of the Union address , House Republicans and Democrats challenged some of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s plans to cut $78 billion from the Pentagon budget over the next five years.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – Protesters throwing rocks and bottles lashed out against the Haitian government and United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti’s second largest city Monday, venting fear and anger over a cholera epidemic that many Haitians believe came from foreigners.
Dorothy Bishop, a professor of developmental neuropsychology at Oxford, tells ther paper the study shows how important it is to take social factors into account when looking at children’s development. Question marks abound among the top 10 second basemen. Justin Sablich makes his picks.
Their conclusions were backed up by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. House Republican leaders announced plans Monday for congressional investigations into a wide range of issues, from corruption in Afghanistan to Washington’s regulation of private industries, using the power of their new majority to launch probes that could embarrass the Obama