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How NBC Changed ‘The Facts’ To Block Dennis Kucinich From The ...
Nevada's Supreme Court upheld NBC's exclusion of presidential contender Dennis Kucinich from MSNBC's Democrats' debate. But the TV network's own appeal to the court reveals that its managers changed the program's qualification rules — a move that threw Kucinich off the program. An NBC Emergency Petition's "statement of facts" filed today admits that Kucinich may have qualified for the debate under the rules outlined by Democratic party consultant Jenny Backus. Those guidelines said that a candidate had to finish in at least fourth place in the New Hampshire primary or Iowa Caucus to participate in the January 15th debate. A candidate could also qualify by being included "in the top four in one of six credible random-sample telephone national news media polls conducted since the Iowa Caucus." NBC's statement acknowledges that in a Gallup Poll completed soon after the Iowa Caucus, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama received the support of 33 percent of those polled, John Edwards obtained 20%, and Kucinich won 3%.
Doctors' wheezy answer: Cut mold
Asthma specialists want the city to crack down on mold and other housing code violations that are triggers for the disease. Forty doctors wrote to Mayor Bloomberg, Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden and Housing Commissioner Shaun Donovan asking for stricter enforcement of mold removal. They also want pest infestations reclassified from "hazardous" to "immediately hazardous." They say housing code violations for mold, which contributes to asthma, have doubled in the past two years. "The vast majority of our asthma patients - at least 80% - live in apartments rife with asthma triggers," said Dr. Bob Morrow of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Hospitalization rates for kids in "Asthma Alley" - North Brooklyn, East Harlem and the South Bronx - are more than 10 times higher than the rest of the city, the doctors say.
Saturday Question
You folks are almost in top form this morning, with or without coffee (and I notice there's a new poster, amyreba ... unless she's an old poster with a new name). Second personal blog question for the morning: Should I leave the blog open with minimal oversight when I'm on vacation? I noticed that CDADave and Dawn Q Otee have wondered if that's a good idea. .
Commercial Breaks
April 2007
Ospreys, the only raptors that dive fully into the water for fish, were nearly wiped out in New England by our postwar use of the pesticide DDT. But we are in the middle of an osprey renaissance, and, thanks to their booming population and outgoing nature, the birds have become a visible presence on Cape Cod and other coastal areas. Ospreys are easy to observe at their large shaggy nests (they are pack rats, filling the sides of their homes with string, plastic bags, and, in the case of one Cape nest, a naked Barbie doll). But if you get too close, they might drive you off with a dive-bombing maneuver and their characteristic warning cries. Because of the way the ospreys defend and commit to their nests, most observers think of them as homebodies. But there is another side to osprey life and another half of the year, during which "our" New England birds become world travelers.
‘Having a UK degree gives you an edge’
Her home city of Abuja in Nigeria may have lost the contest to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games but 28-year-old Kanayo Enwemadu knew she was on to a winner when awarded a place to study in Glasgow. She arrived at Glasgow University last September to further her studies in public health and health policy after graduating with a pharmacy degree in her homeland. Ms Enwemadu said: "I always wanted to do something in addition to my first degree. I know that the world is evolving fast and to spin with it you have to be of a better standard. .
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