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Jul 9, 2012 2:58 PM - Chris Rongey had the perfect seat to enjoy the Jake Peavy parody perfected by Gordon Beckham with help from White Sox captain Paul Konerko. The Take Jake campaign didn't get Peavy voted to the All-Star Game, but he's still going as a late addition to the AL roster. And his all-star teammates likely will want to know more about Beckham's spot-on impression of Peavy. Rongey shares the inside story in his weekly White Sox column.
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Syrian military holds exercises in show of forceJul 9, 2012 8:05 AM - In a show of force, Syria began large-scale military exercises Sunday to simulate defending the country against outside "aggression." Damascus' staunch ally Iran warned of a "catastrophe" in the region if no political solution to the 16-month-old Syrian conflict is found. -
Putin orders probe into Russia flood deathsJul 9, 2012 8:04 AM - Russia's president moved quickly to address anger over the deaths of at least 171 people in severe flooding in the Black Sea region that turned streets into swirling muddy rivers and inundated thousands of homes as many residents were sleeping. Vladimir Putin ordered the head of Russia's investigative agency to establish whether enough had been done to warn people about the floods. -
Oscar-winning film star Ernest Borgnine diesJul 9, 2012 8:04 AM - Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95. -
NATO: 6 service members killed in AfghanistanJul 9, 2012 8:03 AM - A bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed six NATO service members, on a day where a total of 29 people died from roadside bombs and insurgent attacks. NATO said the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device but provided no further details about the attack and did not identify the dead service members.
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One L of a name: L.L. Bean's initials get scrutinyJul 9, 2012 7:57 AM - He's arguably Maine's best-known native son, right up there with Civil War general Joshua Chamberlain, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and horror writer Stephen King. To his customers, he was simply known as "L.L." But as outdoors outfitter L.L. Bean celebrates its 100th anniversary, it's still not 100 percent clear what the famous founder's initials stood for. Was it Leon Leonwood Bean, as the company claimed for decades, or was it Leon Linwood Bean, as his grandson suggests? -
How dangerous is home birth?Jul 9, 2012 7:56 AM - So far this year women have learned that we can't have it all: We can't breast-feed past infancy without some idiot calling it pedophilia; we can't work a top political job in D.C. and raise a well-adjusted teen-ager in New Jersey. And we can't have a candle-lit home birth that isn't also dangerous, according to Michelle Goldberg at the Daily Beast. For a long time home birth was too fringe to get caught in this parenting no-fly zone, but lately it's been fitting quite nicely into the mommy war media narrative. -
Women and motorcycles: Female ridership on the riseJul 9, 2012 7:55 AM - The number of female motorcycle operators in the U.S. has increased slowly to about 7.2 million of about 27 million overall in 2009, according to the latest survey by the Motorcycle Industry Council. About 1 in 10 owners are women, said Cam Arnold, a vice president for the trade group. "I hate riding on the back of a bike," Arnold said. "It's a lot more fun being in control." -
The tax man cometh to police you on health careJul 9, 2012 7:55 AM - The Supreme Court's decision to uphold most of President Barack Obama's health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2½ years, when they'll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance. Under the law, the IRS will provide tax breaks and incentives to help pay for health insurance and impose penalties on some people who don't buy coverage and on some businesses that don't offer it to employees. -
2 paths forward for uninsured, 1 clouded by rulingJul 9, 2012 7:54 AM - Really? The Supreme Court's big health care decision means 30 million or more uninsured Americans are soon going to have coverage? It's far from that simple. The ruling does point a way forward for millions who can't get affordable coverage because they've been sick, they're self-employed or they are otherwise shut out of the insurance plans that most Americans get in the workplace. But the path is clouded for millions more: the people on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder who are supposed to be reached by a major expansion of Medicaid.
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