Health care & abortion. “With House leaders struggling to reach agreement on healthcare legislation, aiming toward a possible vote this week, a new hurdle has emerged: abortion.”
Burma. “Judges in Myanmar have said they will deliver their verdict on Friday in the trial of the country's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.”
India. “The card's introduction, one of the largest IT projects in the world, will eliminate a patchwork of local IDs and is meant to improve the delivery of social services to the poor.”
Quote of the day. "There's a compassion boom going on. Instead of people worrying about their own problems, they're thinking of others." Robert Grimm of the Corporation for National & Community Service, on a report showing more Americans volunteered in their communities in 2008 than in 2007. (USA Today)
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