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Nearly universal health coverage
What will Americans have to give up to get the health system they want?
This week President Obama shared his healthcare-reform ide
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16 years ago
Tobacco plants as protein factories
A Delaware biotech company is building a tobacco factory. Their product isn’t a cigarette, but rather an injection.
A Delawa
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16 years ago
Advocates protest Eagles owner over money owed to city
By: Tom MacDonald
One of the options on the table to balance the budget during the recent budget forums was an outstanding eight m
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16 years ago
Explainer: Why you can't divide city's billion dollar five-year budget gap by five
It turns out what may seem like a math problem a 5th grader could solve, isn’t as simple as dividing by five. The city’s esti
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16 years ago
WHYY’s website, including the Health+Science page, utilizes different internet technologies to enable our visitors to access t
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16 years ago
Health and Science Advisory Committee
Bernard S. Arons, M.D.
Director of Medical Affairs / Department of Mental Health, St. Elizabeth
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16 years ago
More trash talk about PhillyStat budget meeting
Trash was a hot button issue for top city officials at a meeting last night. The Mayor and City Council discussed the citizen feedback th
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16 years ago
Penn announces plan for green space along Schuylkill
The University of Pennsylvania is building Penn Park, a $40 million green space on what used to be U.S. Postal Service parking lots. It
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16 years ago
Connections for NJ GOP gubernatorial candidate may jeopardize state campaign funding
By: Monica Miller
The Republican gubernatorial race is starting to pick up steam leading up to the June primary. However, WHYYR
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16 years ago
Phila. school superintendent dialing for dollars
It takes a village to raise a child, as the saying goes. But according to Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, it also ta
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16 years ago
Fumo jury to begin deliberations
A jury of ten women and two men will begin deliberation Thursday in the federal corruption trial of former state Senator Vince Fumo. Fumo
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16 years ago
Rendell announces close oversight of state's stimulus funds
By: Scott Detrow
Governor Rendell says Pennsylvania is instituting “unprecedented” oversight of the federal stimulus p
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16 years ago