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Older Americans Poverty

2010-04-02T19:48:18Z

Simon Norwood, a construction worker who hasn't found work in months, poses in a garage apartment belonging to a friend in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. The official poverty rate for Americans 65 years and older has stood for years at 10 percent, the lowest rate among age groups. But the true rate could be nearly twice that high, according to a revised formula created by ...

Obama

2010-04-08T23:12:23Z

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, Monday, April 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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No Fair

2010-04-12T03:49:18Z

This undated handout photo provided by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows The subject is asked for the paw by the experimenter and obeys e.g. giving the paw. The partner dog is sitting next to the subject and waiting for its turn. The owner is standing in the middle behind the two dogs. No fair! What parent hasn't heard that from a child who thinks another youngster got more of somethin...

Dino Ankle-Biters

2010-04-17T23:01:36Z

This undated black-and-white artist rendering provided by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows a life reconstruction of Hesperonychus elizabethae chasing a cicada through a forest in Alberta, Canada 75 million years ago. That's what Canadian researchers say they have found, the smallest meat-eating d...