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The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope for many people living without medical insurance and in poverty. People who have very low incomes cannot afford the hundreds of dollars needed for health insurance, and so they live without any, hoping not to get sick.

Obama’s system would help these people and many believe that universal health-care is a step in the right direction for the US. On the other hand, many have criticized Obama’s plans for a universal health-care system, calling it of a socialist nature and that it would change the principles the country was founded on.

Microsoft’s decision to add social networking features to its Windows Live Web services was received with great enthusiasm by the company’s subscribers.

Users will be able to connect with their friends in a whole new way, putting together contact lists, networks of people and also create news feeds with details about the actions taken on Twitter, the photo sharing Web site Flickr and several other pages. Among the companies involved in this action are LinkedIn Corp and Photobucket.

By Karen DeYoung and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, November 16, 2008; A01

The United States and Pakistan reached tacit agreement in September on a don't-ask-don't-tell policy that allows unmanned Predator aircraft to attack suspected terrorist targets in rugged western Pakistan, according to senior officials in both countries. In recent months, the U.S. drones have fired missiles at Pakistani soil at an average rate of once every four or five days.

The officials described the deal as one in which the U.S. government refuses to publicly acknowledge the attacks while Pakistan's government continues to complain noisily about the politically sensitive strikes.

Much has been made of Governor Sarah Palin's wardrobe in recent weeks. But no one is more thankful for her long coattails than fellow Republican politicians in Alaska.

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Don Young, the state's lone U.S. Representative, is headed back to the House to serve a 19th term. After barely surviving a primary challenge in August, Mr. Young was declared the victor Wednesday over his Democratic opponent, Ethan Berkowitz. With about 30,000 votes still to be counted, Mr. Young was ahead, 50% to 45%.

CIO offers up eight reasons to pick the forthcoming BlackBerry Storm over the Apple iPhone 3G. At least one of them is invalid. What about the others?

The reasons given by CIO writer Al Sacco to skip the iPhone 3G in favor of the BlackBerry Storm are as follows:

There’s no time to wait for president-elect of the United States Barack Obama to shift reforming the nation’s current health care system into overdrive. Or at least that’s what Senator Max Baucus seems to think, since the chairman of the Finance Committee has decided to put forward his own health-care plan on Wednesday. The latter, in many respects similar to Obama’s one, sets as a major goal making health insurance affordable to, if possible, every American. Consequently, the Democrat of Montana has stated that he would eventually require everybody to purchase insurance, adding that federal subsidies would be provided for people whose incomes fell short of the possibility to buy coverage.

Even though Baucus’ plan is highly compatible with the president-elect’s one, with regards to the aforementioned issue, the Senator has gone the extra mile by aiming to make it mandatory for all Americans to buy health insurance, since Obama has limited his plan to only requiring children to get health-care coverage.

After Election Losses, Many See Bleak Future for Party

By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 13, 2008; A01

MIAMI, Nov. 12 -- Republican governors were the brightest spot in an otherwise dispiriting election last week for the GOP, but the chief executives gathered here Wednesday provided a gloomy assessment of their party's failures and a dark forecast for the future.

The Republican Party is ill situated to serve a changing America, they said. Members make excuses for corruption. The Bush administration and congressional leaders are fiscally irresponsible and have ceded the tax issue -- of all issues -- to the Democrats. Large swaths of the country are off limits to GOP candidates. Republicans have lost the technology advantage, and if they were part of a corporation, "heads would roll." It's going to be worse in 2010.

CNN has made a groundbreaking discovery and a huge progress when it comes to live field transmissions. Except for the fact that on Tuesday, the Presidential Eelection was won by Barack Obama, making the Democrat Senator the nation’s 44th President and the United States’ 1st African-American President, CNN used pioneering technology to share the information with the millions of Americans watching.

Wolf Blitzer was responsible with introducing the novelty item to the world, warning the audience that “you’ve never seen anything like this on television.” Almost immediately, CNN’s political correspondent Jessica Yellin made her appearance in the studio, just feet away from Blitzer. In fact, Yellin was physically still in Chicago, Illinois, where she continued to follow Barack Obama’s campaign and the gargantuan rally on Tuesday night.

Incumbent Coleman Is Just 239 Votes Ahead of Al Franken

By Mary Pat Flaherty
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 8, 2008; A07

The U.S. Senate race in Minnesota is nowhere close to being decided, state officials said yesterday.

The recount in that election will not be completed until mid-December, and even then, a candidate or voter can challenge the outcome, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said. Sen. Norm Coleman (R) held a 239-vote lead over Democrat Al Franken as of late yesterday. That margin of less than 0.5 percentage points triggers an automatic recount under Minnesota law.

Twenty-four-hour news stations love to cram the latest technology into their newscasts, and last night's election coverage was no exception. CNN continued the tradition by having its reporters and interview subjects "beamed" into the studio via hologram. And CNN's Wolf Blitzer was so excited about the hologram technology that he used almost half of his interview time with hologram reporter Jessica Yellin to talk about using a hologram instead of actually talking about the news.