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Obama meets with doctor who was treated for Ebola 09/16/2014 03:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has met at the White House today with Dr. Kent Brantly, an American physician who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia. He recovered after treatment with an experimental drug.The meeting took place before Obama left for Atlanta to visit the federal Cent Generation gap: Young Scots favor independence 09/16/2014 05:20am • PAUL KELBIE Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- Across Scotland, dinner table talk is getting heated as families argue over how to vote in Scotland's independence referendum. A generation gap has opened up, with younger voters more inclined to back independence and their elders tending to say Sierra Leone: WHO too slow to help doc with Ebola 09/16/2014 03:22am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Sierra Leone accused the World Health Organization on Monday of being "sluggish" in facilitating an evacuation of a doctor who died from Ebola before she could be sent out of the country for medical care.Dr. Olivet Buck died Satur Bethesda left off top 100 ‘Best Place To Live' list 09/15/2014 02:05pm • Bethesda may be among the coolest, most snobby and richest small cities in America, but it’s not one of the 100 best to live in, according to a media and marketing company called Livability.com. The website’s editors said they studied a host of factors and hooked up with research te Man pleads not guilty in tainted steroid case 09/12/2014 07:14pm • DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- A pharmacist who worked for a Massachusetts company blamed for a nationwide meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people pleaded not guilty to a mail fraud charge Thursday as his lawyer said he is concerned he could be made a scapegoat.Glenn Adam Chi 2 more NFL players face domestic violence issues 09/11/2014 02:20pm • STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Carolina Panthers Pro Bowl defensive end Greg Hardy has been convicted on two counts of domestic violence and is still playing. Ray McDonald of the San Francisco 49ers also remains active while he is being investigated for abuse allegations.The Pan DC mayor's driver no longer working as lobbyist 09/11/2014 01:30pm • BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The driver for Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign who pleaded guilty to conspiracy last week is no longer working as a lobbyist for the Johns Hopkins University and health system.Mark Long was the sixth person associated with Gray's campaign to plead g Veterans Watchdog: VA managers lied about delays 09/11/2014 09:46am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Managers at more than a dozen Veterans Affairs medical facilities lied to federal investigators about scheduling practices and other issues, the department's inspector general said Tuesday.Richard Griffin, the VA's acting inspector general, said his o 8 College Jobs to Build Skills, Network 09/11/2014 12:00am • Want to boost your job prospects after graduation? Any part-time work during college can give you an advantage. "Balancing work and school shows you can manage your time," says Nicole van den Heuvel, director of Rice University's Center for Career Development. "And jobs that aren't glamorous show t Leverage MBA Mentors to Reach Career Goals 09/11/2014 12:00am • When it comes to pairing MBA students with a mentor, Beth Ursin believes a mismatch is the best kind of match. Ursin, the director of career management at Willamette University's Atkinson Graduate School of Management, is more inclined to connect a student interested in finance with a marketing mast Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 09/10/2014 05:00pm • The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___Sept. 8The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, on World Health Organization hurting:Were it not for horribly misguided Islamic religious fanatics in northern Nigeria and tribal Pakistan, the Wor Lawmakers poised to review $1.3B Tesla package 09/10/2014 01:00am • SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Gov. Brian Sandoval was poised to call state lawmakers into a special session Wednesday to consider an extraordinary package of tax breaks and incentives worth up to $1.3 billion to seal a deal with Tesla Motors Inc. to build a $5 billion factory in N CDC: 90 percent of children eating too much sodium 09/09/2014 03:06pm • WASHINGTON -- Too many American children are growing up literally addicted to salt. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 90 percent of school-aged kids and teens nationwide are eating too much sodium. The CDC recommends no more than 2,300 milligrams a day for normal chi Watchdog: VA managers lied about delays 09/09/2014 01:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- According to the inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs, managers at more than a dozen of the agency's medical facilities lied to investigators about scheduling practices and other issues.Richard Griffin told lawmakers today that his office is looking into allegat French women bid topless sunbathing 'adieu' 09/09/2014 01:00pm • THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) -- France's summer is fast becoming a memory, and so is one of its iconic beach sights: the topless woman.As few as 2 percent of French women under 35 now say they want to bare their breasts, according to an Elle magazine poll this summer. It's a far cry f