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N.C. Democrats Try To Dust Off Pre-Convention Blues

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The audience listens as President Obama speaks about student loans at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last month.

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Originally published on Sat May 26, 2012 9:14 am

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The Democratic Party will hold its national convention in Charlotte this September. The choice of venue was a signal that North Carolina would be a key part of President Obama's re-election strategy.

But the state's Democrats have suffered a few blows lately.

4:02 pm

Thu May 24, 2012

GOP Hopes Pennsylvania's Still Got That Swing

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney participates in a 6th-grade language arts class with Salina Beattie and other students at Universal Bluford Charter School on Thursday in Philadelphia.

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Romney greets a student at Universal Bluford Charter School, where he talked about education policy Thursday.

By Jeff Brady

Originally published on Thu May 24, 2012 8:37 pm

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was talking about education policy Thursday in Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral votes, is a frequent stop for presidential candidates. But, amid a campaign likely to focus on a handful of battleground states, some are starting to wonder if Pennsylvania is still a swing state.

At the Universal Bluford Charter School in a largely African-American neighborhood in West Philadelphia, Romney toured a computer lab, helped students with an assignment in language arts class and listened to the kids sing.

3:36 pm

Thu May 24, 2012

What Will HP's Restructuring Look Like?

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Originally published on Thu May 24, 2012 8:37 pm

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3:05 pm

Thu May 24, 2012

What's Up, Doc? When Your Doctor Rushes Like The Road Runner

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Patients continue to complain that physicians don't spend enough time examining and talking with them.

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Originally published on Thu May 24, 2012 8:37 pm

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To physician Larry Shore of My Health Medical Group in San Francisco, it's no surprise that patients give doctors low marks for time and attention.

"There's some data to suggest that the average patient gets to speak for between 12 and 15 seconds before the physician interrupts them," Shore says. "And that makes you feel like the person is not listening."

2:04 pm

Thu May 24, 2012

Regina Spektor Still Doesn't Write Anything Down

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The songs on What We Saw From the Cheap Seats don't come just from the past year but from a span of "10 years or more," Regina Spektor says.

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Originally published on Thu May 24, 2012 8:37 pm

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In 2004, singer-songwriter Regina Spektor was a staple of the so-called anti-folk scene when she sat down for one of her first public-radio interviews with the now-defunct WNYC program The Next Big Thing. In the interview, she joked that she stayed up until 3:30 a.m. writing a song, trying not to wake the neighbors, but never wrote anything down.

She still doesn't.

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