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Shots - Health Blog
1:36 pm
Thu August 16, 2012

CDC Recommends Hepatitis C Testing For All Boomers

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Originally published on Thu August 16, 2012 5:19 pm

Listen up, baby boomers. The government wants every one of you to get tested for the hepatitis C virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a sweeping recommendation official amid growing concern about the estimated 2 million boomers infected with the virus, which can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer. The advice was published in the latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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The Two-Way
9:33 am
Thu August 16, 2012

Cut Diplomatic Ties? Hide Him In A Crate? How Might Assange Standoff End?

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Metropolitan Police Officers outside the main door of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is inside.
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Originally published on Fri August 17, 2012 11:27 am

Now that Ecuador has said it will give WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum as he seeks to avoid being extradited from Great Britain to Sweden by hiding out in Ecuador's London embassy, news outlets are looking at the complicated legal issues involved in cases such as his.

Here are some things we've found fascinating in the coverage:

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American Dreams: Then And Now
4:42 pm
Wed August 15, 2012

A Baseball School For Big League Dreamers

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Ketchum Marsh, a senior from Massachusetts, walks back to the dugout during an intrasquad game at IMG Baseball Academy, where he trains and goes to school.
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Marsh will play baseball at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., next year.
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Just 1,200 players are drafted each year — and major league rosters have only 750 active slots.
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Ketchum Marsh, a high school senior from Massachusetts, walks back to the dugout during a May 21 intrasquad game at IMG Baseball Academy in Bradenton, Fla., where he trains and goes to school.
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World Geography teacher Christoph LeClainche with some of the student-athletes at IMG Academy. IMG students spend half the day in class and half playing baseball.
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Marsh started attending IMG in eighth grade. Tuition, room and board for the academic and sports program runs about $70,000 a year.
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IMG says it's had 17 players drafted since 2006.
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IMG Academy pitching coach Dave Shepard gives pointers to pitcher Cameron Varga.
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Marsh warms up during an intrasquad game. His coaches say he has surpassed other players who may have had more athletic ability but lacked his work ethic.
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IMG Baseball Academy Director Ken Bolek is a former major and minor league coach.
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Originally published on Wed August 15, 2012 8:11 pm

If you have ever dreamed of playing big-league baseball, chances are the dream started to fade sometime in high school.

It gradually becomes clear: You won't be starting in Game 7 of the World Series, and tipping your cap after hitting a walk-off homer. So at some point you go from player to fan — watching others chase greatness on the diamond.

But not every baseball dreamer is willing to give up so early. And in Bradenton, Fla., there's a place that lies somewhere between the Little League field and Yankee Stadium.

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It's All Politics
4:42 pm
Wed August 15, 2012

Could Ryan Lure Younger Voters To GOP?

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Rep. Paul Ryan greets supporters during a campaign rally Sunday in Waukesha, Wis.
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Originally published on Thu August 16, 2012 8:08 am

Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the newly chosen vice presidential running mate for Republican Mitt Romney, was in Ohio on Wednesday to speak at his alma mater.

Ryan graduated from Miami University of Ohio in 1992 with degrees in economics and political science. And his ascension to the GOP ticket thrills Rob Harrelson, a member of the school's College Republicans (as was Ryan, two decades earlier).

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Shots - Health Blog
4:25 pm
Wed August 15, 2012

Bill Gates Crowns Toilet Innovators At Foundation's Sanitation Fair

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Bill Gates, co-founder of the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, checks out a toilet demo at the Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, Wash. The festival featured prototypes of high-tech toilets developed by researchers around the world.
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Originally published on Wed August 15, 2012 5:23 pm

This week, Bill Gates was at a summer fair in Washington State, but he was not eating deep-fried butter on-a-stick, or checking out livestock.

Gates was inspecting cutting-edge toilet technology on display at an event his foundation hosted in Seattle — the Reinvent the Toilet Fair.

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