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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 21 April 2014
A ProPublica analysis of recently released data shows that dozens of physicians who received payments from Medicare in 2012 had been kicked out of Medicaid, charged with fraud, or settled claims of overbilling Medicare itself. This story was co-published with NPR In August 2011,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 April 2014
RTI is the only act that allows  you to enforce your rights without moving out of your home, says Shailesh Gandhi, former Central Information Commissioner (CIC) Sometimes, simple Right to Information (RTI) applications lead to significant results, said Shailesh Gandhi, former Central...

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Julia Angwin (ProPublica) 16 April 2014
One lesson of the Heartbleed bug is that the US needs to stop running Internet security like a Wikipedia volunteer project The Heartbleed computer security bug is many things: a catastrophic tech failure, an open invitation to criminal hackers and yet another reason to upgrade...

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A delightful survey of organisations When the Al-Qaeda successfully destroyed the World Trade Centre Towers in 2001, many experts sat up. A terrorist group, seemingly without a clear hierarchy or a bureaucracy, could motivate hundreds with the same beliefs and band them together for...

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Leah Bartos (Special to ProPublica) 14 April 2014
The nation’s largest forensic expert college will sell its forensic accounting division, following a series of investigations by ProPublica and Frontline This story was co-published with Frontline There's been a major shake-up in one of the largest organizations that certifies...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 April 2014
Veteran lyricist, filmmaker and renowned Indian poet, Gulzar is nominated for the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2013 Gulzar, one of the veteran lyricist, filmmaker and poets will be honoured with the Dadsaheb Phalke award, India’s highest award in cinema given annually by the union...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 April 2014
Speaking at a Moneylife Foundation interactive seminar, Advocate Sachin Gupta, explained the importance of a Will, what is a probate and what is the role played by Trusts for specific beneficiaries A Will is a legally valid document that allows you to choose who gets your self-earned...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 11 April 2014
With open enrolment over for private health insurance claims, states are struggling to process hundreds of thousands of Medicaid applications Last week, federal health officials celebrated two milestones related to the Affordable Care Act. The first, which got considerable attention, was...

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Kim Barker  and   Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 10 April 2014
Documents released by a House committee do shed some light on the inner workings of the IRS's Exempt Organizations division and how it approached applications of social welfare non-profits, also known as dark money groups because they spend money on elections without reporting their donors

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 April 2014
BCCI sought transcripts of the audio tapes containing the statements of Srinivasan, Dhoni and IPL COO Sundar Raman The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday moved an application before the Supreme Court seeking transcripts of the audio tapes containing the statements...

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Joaquin Sapien (ProPublica) 09 April 2014
Jonathan Fleming and his family were overjoyed after the Brooklyn District Attorney dismissed murder charges against him based on evidence withheld at his 1990 trial. In a hearing that lasted less than 15 minutes, Jonathan Fleming's more than 24 years in prison came to an end. The 1990...

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Ancient Indian facts are being forgotten and the younger generation, drunk with modern technological feats, seems to have forgotten all our scientific feats which are, in fact, the basis of most western scientific achievements   “It is through science that we prove, but through...

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Nina Martin (ProPublica) 08 April 2014
The ruling means that the woman whose drug use had her facing a possible life term can at most be charged with manslaughter in the death of her stillborn daughter    A Mississippi judge has thrown out murder charges against a young woman in the 2006 death of her stillborn child, a...

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Malnourished children should not be given vaccination as their immune system cannot respond with antibodies which are proteins “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” — George Orwell Vaccination is for the whole society...

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Kara Brandeisky (ProPublica) 07 April 2014
All the plans purport to end the bulk phone records collection program, but there are big differences Ten months after Edward Snowden's first disclosures, three main legislative proposals have emerged for surveillance reform: one from President Obama, one from the House Intelligence...

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Lack of liquidity, dodgy loans and the lack of a central government guarantee is a sure fire recipe for a collapse. The question is not whether there will be more runs on small banks like Jiangsu Shenyan Rural Commercial Bank. The question is whether there will be enough of them to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 April 2014
There are hundreds of financial products under different asset classes. Do we need all of them? Debashis Basu, editor, Moneylife, at an exclusive Moneylife Foundation seminar explained how to cut out the clutter Research shows that, the more the choice, the less is our ability to choose....

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 April 2014
The backlash sprung from news of a cash donation the Mozilla chief had made in 2008 to support passage of a California law banning gay marriage, a move he has never publicly retracted Brendan Eich, chief of Firefox browser maker Mozilla, is stepping down in the face of controversy...

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Hitisha Jain 04 April 2014
Crucial to rehabilitation of paraplegics is emotional and psychological support, finds Hitisha Jain You never know where fate can lead you. A fraction of a second could confine you to a life on a wheelchair. Paraplegic Foundation works for paraplegics. This permanent disability usually...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 03 April 2014
Stansberry & Associates removed hundreds of testimonials and posted a disclosure on its website that trading stocks is risky and that past performance is no guarantee of future results The testimonials on the Stansberry & Associates Investment Research website were quite intriguing....

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