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What We've Found: Budget hoopla, oversight report, NASA's finances, Russian rumors, new malaria and the Strange Case of Dr. Borkson
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What We've Found: Budget hoopla, oversight report, NASA's finances, Russian rumors, new malaria and the Strange Case of Dr. Borkson
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Mayor Nutter prepared to launch the first stages of his "Plan C" contingency budget, which would close every Philadelphia library and rec center and eliminate 3,000 city jobs, as the Pennsylvania State Legislature continued to seek compromise over a budget plan that would raise sales tax 1 percent and briefly stall pension payments.
The U.S. government will probably not recover all of the $74 billion it invested in the auto industry to save GM and Chrysler from bankruptcy, according to a new congressional oversight report. Yet in preserving the 6.5 percent of manufacturing jobs represented by the industry, the investment "might have resulted in savings for the government in other ways."
NASA is too broke to return to the moon without an annual budget increase of at least $3 billion, according to a White House panel of independent space experts.
Russia's foreign minister denied rumors that a Russian-crewed freighter was bearing S-300 missiles destined for Iran when it was hijacked by pirates in the Baltic Sea over the summer.
A malarial parasite thought to only infect monkeys was found to be widespread in Malaysian humans. The form of malaria is deadly if not treated quickly, and can reproduce more quickly than its more popularly contracted relatives.
Called a "Jekyll-Hyde" figure by his judge, a 66-year-old Philadelphia doctor was sentenced to five years in federal prison for illegally providing his patients with oft-abused drugs such as Percocet, OxyContin and Xanax in exchange for money and oral sex while his wife lay dying from diabetes.
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