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Autism linked to vaccines?

It looks like the CDC may have missed a memo to itself on vaccine safety. One very contentious issue in the vaccine-autism debate has been whether a certain subset of genetically susceptible children is unequipped to handle the early and intensive US ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  3 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Anderson Cooper

Imagine this: Ready for the WMD attack

**See CNN Terrorism Analyst Peter Bergen’s take on the WMD report tonight at 10pm on AC360 Imagination isn’t a good thing if you cover homeland security.  You mull over all kinds of threats, and spin out all kinds of scenarios.  But none has haunted me ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  2 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Peter Bergen,  John Barry

Being president was great, but I really missed doing live musical theater

President Bush is in the autumn of his years.  At least politically speaking.  And, if his interview with Charlie Gibson last night was any indication, the president seems to be speaking more freely.  No, I’m not talking about the part of the interview ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  2 Dec 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Charlie Gibson,  Barbara Bush,  Dick Cheney,  Harvey Fierstein

Hillary Clinton Champions Women’s Health Worldwide

Late on election night, I received an email from a Planned Parenthood staff person, Njeri Wahome, in Nairobi, Kenya, to verify what she was seeing on television — that Senator Obama had won. “Can it be true? We are over the moon … at the making of ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Anderson Cooper,  Planned Parenthood,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

Behold, I bring you tidings of great joy…and that new high-def TV you wanted

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone, now it’s Christmas time in New York.  Frankly, I had forgotten all about it until I saw Santa trying to scalp tickets to Barack Obama’s inauguration.  I was struck by how shameless and cynical Santa had become. ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Dick Cheney,  Mariah Carey,  Mickey Rourke

Just when you thought it was safe…

As if they haven’t done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers-many of them the very sorts of firms that helped create the current financial crisis-are going strong. Their new strategy: taking advantage of a long-standing ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  28 Nov 2008
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Russia: We did not fire on presidential motorcade

The motorcade, carrying Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski, was passing a checkpoint near Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia region — site of intense conflict between Russian and Georgian troops in August — when ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  24 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Anderson Cooper,  Mikheil Saakashvili,  Lech Kaczynski

There’s no place like home for the holidays…and by home I mean a bar far away from home

Well, we’re just a few days away from Thanksgiving. Or, as I call it, Xanax Appreciation Day. The airports, railways and roadways will soon be filled with travelers heading home to be reminded of why they no longer live there. Then, on Thursday, ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  24 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Regis Philbin,  Elisabeth Hasselbeck,  General Motors,  Sarah Palin,  Larry King

Do I have to pay extra if I’m buying a turkey that Sarah Palin watched get slaughtered?

That turkey video was not something I wanted to see just before Thanksgiving. Why is it that you can eat a food, in this case turkey, for years with no qualms at all until you see the process of it going from bird to dinner? My granny used to wring the ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  21 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama,  Larry King,  White House,  U.S. Senate

If by warm memories you mean swearing and pipe-smoking

All of this talk about bailing out the domestic auto industry has made me a little nostalgic for the days when I used to go car shopping with my “be American, buy American” grandfather.  We call him “Bumpy.”  Which, apparently in Massachusetts, is a ...

From JACKGRAYTURNERCOM, Anderson Cooper 360 Blog,  19 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Linda Ronstadt,  Diana Ross,  Lionel Richie,  Carole King

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