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By the time Astra Augustus left Virtua Memorial Hospital in New Jersey after the last of four surgeries, she’d run up about $255,000 in bills.
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New York school bus drivers and matrons went on strike for the first time in 34 years, forcing tens of thousands of the city’s 1.35 million public and parochial students to find other ways to get to class.
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Jennifer Mascia was 5 when the FBI came for her father. The feds couldn’t arrest him because they didn’t want to leave the little girl alone in the Irvine, California condo.
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Artist Chaw Ei Thein spent a few days in a dank Burmese jail for conducting a performance piece on the streets of Rangoon. She fled to the U.S. in 2009 and was awarded political asylum.
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The debate following the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya unfolded for three months without entangling Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there are plans to build two new science and medical facilities on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
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In the Manhattan neighborhood of Elena Kagan ’s youth in the 1960s and 1970s, drug addicts and prostitutes conducted their business minutes from the doormen and marbled lobby of her childhood home.
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Elizabeth Warren , the adviser appointed by President Barack Obama to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the agency will help rebuild the middle class while allowing markets to work.
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The number of powerful women on Wall Street got a temporary boost last night thanks to the National Council for Research on Women .
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New York City will restrict sales of sugary soft drinks to no more than 16 ounces a cup in restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums and arenas after the Board of Health approved Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan.
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