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  Health care bill clears last hurdle before passage - Yahoo! News

  Exultant Senate Democrats pushed President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul past a final procedural hurdle Wednesday, setting up a Christmas Eve vote to pass the legislation extending coverage to 30 million Americans. Democrats voted 60-39 to end a GOP filibuster and move to a final ...

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  NYC Bike Lane Brouhaha No Laughing Matter | Autopia | Wired.com

  The city Department of Transportation said it removed the bike lane “as part of ongoing bike network adjustments in the area.” It is redirecting traffic to Kent Avenue, a street the city feels is more appropriate for cycling because it’s got a two-way bike lane. But some cycling advocates ...

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  Diesel Hybrids Deliver Big Savings to UPS | Autopia | Wired.com

  The National Renewable Energy Laboratory got its hands on six hybrid vans that United Parcel Service is using, and after testing them nine ways from Sunday found diesel-electric technology improved fuel economy more than 28 percent. What’s more, it cost significantly less per mile to operate ...

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  7 Tipping Points That Could Transform Earth | Wired Science | Wired.com

  When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issue its last report in 2007, environmental tipping points were a footnote. A troubling footnote, to be sure, but the science was relatively new and unsettled. Straightforward global warming was enough to worry about. But when the IPCC meets ...

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  Review: Sherlock Holmes Gives Brainy Detective Plenty of Brawn | Underwire | Wired.com

  Robert Downey Jr. may not be tall or British like Sherlock Holmes, but he does possess the single most important attribute needed to play England’s famous sleuth. The actor is smart. In the highly entertaining Sherlock Holmes, which opens Friday, busy plot, vivid locations, thorny ...

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