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[00:03]Congress

[00:05]Brown said he looked forward to working with both

[00:08]parties in Congress but said the health care bill in its current

[00:13]form was "not good for Massachusetts."

[00:20]Council

[00:21]"We need an independent risk assessment done by a

[00:24]group such as the National Research Council, not just by

[00:28]proponents of the technology," he says.

[00:31]assembly

[00:34]Indeed, NATO takes the threat of cyber-warfare so

[00:37]seriously that it signed off on a special report on the

[00:41]topic during its parliamentary assembly last October.

[00:48]Convention

[00:50]Twenty thousand people poured into Detroit last week

[00:53]to attend the Republican National Convention ... they did

[00:56]so even though they knew that the convention does not

[01:00]really do what it was designed to do: select a presidential

[01:04]candidate.

[01:07]conflict

[01:09]Proper, scientific study of the impacts of dams and

[01:12]of the cost and benefits of controlling water can help to

[01:16]resolve these conflicts.

[01:19]campaign

[01:20]For much of the past year, President Bush campaigned

[01:24]to move Social Security to a saving-account model, with

[01:28]retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments

[01:32]for payments depending on investment returns.