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The Two-Way
12:00 pm
Thu March 15, 2012

Blagojevich Arrives In Colorado, Reports To Prison

Credit Ed Andrieski / AP
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, center, walks with attorneys as he arrives at the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in Littleton, Colo., on Thursday.

A day after delivering a defiant speech in which he proclaimed his innocence, disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich flew to Colorado and reported to prison to begin serving his 14-year sentence.

The AP reports:

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Shots - Health Blog
11:59 am
Thu March 15, 2012

Blackouts Predict Which Binge-Drinking Students Will End Up In ERs

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Half of college students who drink say they have blackouts.

Eighty percent of college students drink, and schools have had little success reducing those numbers, or the problems caused by excessive alcohol.

Targeting students who suffer blackouts from drinking may help, a new study says, because they are more likely to end up in the emergency room.

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It's All Politics
11:50 am
Thu March 15, 2012

Romney's Wins In Obama's 2008 Counties Doesn't Necessarily Mean Much

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Mitt Romney shakes hands with hotel staffers in the Cleveland suburbs in February.

What does it mean that in 2012 Mitt Romney has, during the Republican presidential primaries, done well in some of the same Ohio and Michigan urban-suburban counties that President Obama won in 2008 — a pattern likely to be repeated in some upcoming primaries?

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The Two-Way
11:40 am
Thu March 15, 2012

NAACP Takes Voter I.D. Laws To U.N. Rights Council

Like they've done in the past, the NAACP has argued before a United Nations panel that laws passed in some states that require voters to show identification suppress the votes of minorities.

Fox News reports the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made its case in Geneva yesterday:

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Afghanistan
10:55 am
Thu March 15, 2012

U.S., Pakistan At Impasse Over Afghan Supply Routes

Nearly four months after Pakistan closed the main supply lines for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, the shutdown is creating hardship for Pakistani truckers and is forcing the U.S. to turn to costly and less-efficient alternatives.

The Pakistani move came after an errant U.S. airstrike left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead along the Afghan frontier back in November.

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