Baghdad blast kills teen and wounds classmates near museum
A blast at a Baghdad area event near the National Museum killed a 17 year old girl and wounded 24 others, many students. The bomb was placed under a bench where she sat, marking a rare attack on foreigners amid tourism fears.
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Health care costs to top eight thousand per person this year
A Health Affairs report from HHS statisticians projects health care costs will average 8160 per person in 2016 with total spending rising as Medicaid expands and baby boomers enroll in Medicare. Uninsured reach about 48 million while costs are forecast to hit 13100 per person by 2018, pressuring taxpayers and policy makers.
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Antarctic ministers study thawing ice and sea level risk
A multinational group of enviroment ministers visited Troll Research Station in Antarctica to observe climate research and assess how melting ice might raise global sea levels. The mission, part of the IPY effort, includes two-month treks, deep ice cores, and satellite mapping to determine mass balance and ice sheet dynamics.
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China
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West Antarctic
NASA
James Hansen
Rajendra Pachauri
Cape Town
South Africa
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East Antarctic
David Carlson
Cambridge
England
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Massachusetts health care program faces test in recession
Massachusetts pioneering health care system, requiring most residents to carry insurance, faces stress from unemployment rising from 4.8 to about 7 percent. The law offers subsidies and near free coverage for the poor, with fines up to 1000 for uninsured individuals in 2009. Officials expect most jobless will buy insurance, but costs and affordability amid the downturn remain uncertain.
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Women use more brain regions to judge beauty study finds
A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports men process beauty in the right brain while women engage language-linked networks across the brain. Ten men and ten women viewed art and scenery, rating beauty as the magnetic activity differed after 300 milliseconds, suggesting gendered neural approaches to aesthetic appreciation.
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Proceedings
National Academy of Science
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
David Hume
Camilo J. Cela-Conde
University of Baleares
Palma de Mallagca
Spain
Dela-Conde
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