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Big Oil's big subsidies, and more
feature Oil production is among the most heavily subsidized businesses. BP, for example, was getting a tax deduction of $225,000 a day for renting the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
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The $26,364 threshold, and more
feature In 2010, half of all U.S. workers earned less than $26,364.
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Fauja Singh, age 100, runs a marathon, and more
feature Singh took up running at age 89 after his wife and child died.
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Who is the fairest Republican of them all? and more
feature Ten different potential Republican presidential candidates have at some point finished first in polls of GOP voters this year.
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Identifying the remains of 9/11 victims, and more
feature Ten years later, no remains from 1,121 of the people who died at the World Trade Center have ever been identified.
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Iraq's war widows, and more
feature After two decades of war and civil conflict, about 1.5 million Iraqi women are widows, a new study says.
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Brigham Young University's honor code revisited, and more
feature Brigham Young University was widely praised last month for invoking its honor code barring fornication and alcohol use against basketball star Brandon Davies.
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Potter films rake in billions, and more
feature The Harry Potter movie series has earned $6.37 billion at the box office over the past decade.
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Wall Street under Obama and Bush, and more
feature Wall Street securities firms have made more money under the Obama administration than the Bush administration.
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A linguistic success for Occupy Wall Street, and more
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Income for the top 1 percent soars, and more
feature Incomes for the top 1 percent soared 275 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars between 1979 and 2007.
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The rising cost of disability benefits, and more
feature Social Security disability benefits may run out of reserves in seven years.
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Bin Laden’s bad health, and more
feature The medicines recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound show he no longer suffered from kidney disease, but he did have drugs for other ailments.
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The looming government "shut down," and more
feature If Congress doesn’t extend the federal debt ceiling and the government is “shut down,” the government won’t actually shut down.
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