Thursday's Daily Brief

Thursday, March 17, 2011 Blackout Warning in Japan POLITICS Outworked And Out-Organized: GOP Concerned By Wisconsin Recall Efforts WORLD U.S. Considers Air Strikes In Libya BUSINESS At California Nuclear Plant, Earthquake Response Plan Not Required HEALTH New Record-High U.S. Life Expectancy IMPACT James O'Keefe Requests Nonprofit Status For Muckraking Organization BLOG POSTS Richard (RJ) Eskow: Fukushima USA: Hell or High Water Regulations are our way of ensuring that the drive for profits never again leads to needless tragedies: Not in Fukushima. Not in the Gulf of Mexico. Not in New Orleans. And not in your home town. Plain and simple. Lisa P. Jackson: Removing Mercury and Other Toxics From the Air We Breathe The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards set the first-ever national safeguards to limit power plant releases of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, making this is one of the largest steps to protect our kids from air pollution in a generation. Suze Orman: How to Boost Your Retirement Confidence I hear it in your voices and see it in your faces when you talk to me. Your fears about being able to retire comfortably and with dignity are weighing you down. It's hard to enjoy the present when you're worried about the future. Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: Midlife Crisis: A Misleading Myth or a Reality in Search of a New Name? How have changes in our culture influenced the way we view the midlife crisis? Do our longer lives, and what we now expect from them, bring new meaning to the term? Rep. Mike Honda: Petraeus' Propaganda War on Congress: The Truth Behind His Testimony Twenty million dollars was spent on the war in Afghanistan just during Gen. David Petraeus's testimony to Congress this morning. This month, we are on track to spend more than $10 billion in Afghanistan. And for what?

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