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From the original NPR.org article: "<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/text/s.php?sId=113335110&m=1" >Tuesday's day-long gathering of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, where chairman Max Baucus has spent months lowering expectations, offered a sense of just how dim prospects for meaningful systemic change have become.

Baucus, the insurance-industry representative who doubles as a Democratic senator from Montana, long ago rejected the notion that a robust public option might be a part of any healthcare reform measure that would pass the Senate.

His committee, on Tuesday, agreed blocking moves by two Democratic senators, West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller and New York's Chuck Schumer, to amend the finance committee's plan to include a government-backed alternative to private insurance."

So how do these politicians represent anyone but the corporations that pay their campaign bills?

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"The origin of the human species via evolution from earlier primates is beyond scientific dispute."

From the original WashingtonPost.com article: "Ardi lived 4.4 million years ago in the woodlands of East Africa. She spent most of her time in the trees. She stood about four feet tall, weighed 110 pounds, and had long arms, short legs, and a grasping big toe that was perfect for clambering branch to branch. She ate in the trees, raised her offspring in the trees, slept in the trees. But sometimes she came down to the ground, and stood upright. She could walk on two legs. She was, in a sense, taking baby steps on a journey that would change the world."

Later it says: "The origin of the human species via evolution from earlier primates is beyond scientific dispute."

Sorry anti-evolution peeps!

Maybe someday soon we can start looking at religion as a series of parables filled with guidelines to live our lives by rather than doctrine to accept as fact.

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