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House Democrats are expected to begin marking up a health reform bill this week that members of the Ways and Means committee said "would cost less than $1 trillion over 10 years, [and would be] paid for chiefly by a combination of spending reductions in the health care system and a surtax on wealthy taxpayers," CQ Politics reports. "The surtax would be levied beginning in 2011. ò€¦ [T]here would be three income brackets - $350,000, $500,000 and $1 million for couples filing jointly, and $280,000, $400,000 and $800,000 for individuals - with a different rate at each level: "One, two, three [percent] - something like that,"" the committee"s chairman, Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said (Wayne, 7/13).
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The largest study of its kind to date shows that women may not be able to learn as well shortly before menopause compared to other stages in life. The research is published in the May 26, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Goal Of Good Quality Medicines Advanced By New USP Agreement With 9 ASEAN Countries
Furthering its mission to improve the quality of medicines worldwide, the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention has signed a cooperative agreement with nine countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In a drive to strengthen capacities and certification status of national drug quality control laboratories, officials from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand had formed an ASEAN Reference Materials Working Group (ARMWG) to focus on modern, international measurement standards for medicines in the region. The agreement with USP is the culmination of discussions that started in 2008 with the aim of improving the production, precision and quality of ASEAN Reference Substances (ARS).
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Cold Blooded Criminals Use Violence Indiscriminately, UK

Psychopaths are more likely to use violence in a cold blooded, calculated way than non-psychopathic violent offenders. This is the finding of a study being presented today, Thursday 25th June 2009, at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. John Cordwell, in association with Queen Mary College, University of London, studied 492 violent offenders with convictions from common assault to GBH and manslaughter. He compared their levels of psychopathy (as measured on the Psychopathy Checklist - Revised) to an analysis of the violence they used in their crimes. John Cordwell said: "Psychopaths tend to be callous, un-empathic, cunning, and frequently lie. We discovered that offenders who scored highly on the measure of psychopathy committed significantly more instrumental violence than the other offenders - they used violence to achieve goals such as obtaining money, sex or drugs, and there could be little or no emotional component to this violence. "These results indicate that highly psychopathic criminals are more likely than non-psychopaths to use violence to get what they want, and could be seen as "cold blooded". However, these highly psychopathic offenders are also no less likely than other offenders to become violent in a reactive and impulsive way as a result of a highly emotional state. This study further asks the question of whether reactivity is a genuine phenomenon of psychopathy or actually a phenomenon of violence itself. The conference is being held at the University of Central Lancashire from the 23rd to 25th July. British Psychological Society


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