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• Is The Era Of OxyContin Abuse Over?

  

  Original summary: "OxyContin tablets crushed into powder for insufflation (snorting). On Friday November 2nd, something unexpected happened during an armed robbery at the Ciampa Apothecary on Cambridge [...] more>>

  Trevor Butterworth,Contributor

• How to Get a Little Lovin' [Entrepreneur Style]

  Today it’s exactly six months til the 10th ever Loving Day, a movement to end racial prejudices and celebrate inter-ethnic (and all) relationships. Not that I ever let too many days go by without a little lovin’. [...] more>>

  Marissa Feinberg,Contributor

• Governor Snyder On Reinventing Michigan: More Than Meets The Eye

  Michigan Governor Rick Snyder writes an op-ed for Forbes on the "once-in-a-generation transformation" his state is undergoing. [...] more>>

  Kurt Badenhausen,Forbes Staff

• Northrop Grumman Finds A Formula That Will Work In Hard Times

  

  Image via CrunchBase As Northrop Grumman Chairman & CEO Wes Bush completes his third year at the helm of the storied military contractor, he has good reason to be satisfied with what he has accomplished.  [...] more>>

  Loren Thompson,Contributor

• Medical Tourism Is A Massive Opportunity For Emerging Nations Like Thailand

  Medical tourism isn't a new concept - Switzerland has been a mecca to foreigners for over 100 years by offering superior health care. Interestingly, a more recent trend of emerging, and even frontier, nations developing medical tourism industries has sprouted. [...] more>>

  Miguel Forbes,Forbes Staff

• Editorial Board: Demonizing welfare recipients

  a way of demonizing them and vilifying public aid itself. It is arguably unconstitutional as well. A year ago, a federal judge in Florida suspended that state’s drug-testing law on the grounds that it probably violates the Fourth Amendment’s protection against [...] more>>

• Virginia faces a test as math scores plummet

  Steve Shapiro, an energetic math teacher at Falls Church High School in Fairfax County, had a sick feeling when he saw the results of last spring’s state math tests. At his school, where more than half the students are low-income, the passing rate on Alg [...] more>>

• Treasury Auctions Set for This Week

  regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday. At the close of the New York cash market on Friday, the rate on the outstanding three-month bill was 0.03 percent. The rate on the six-month issue was 0.09 [...] more>>

• No. 19 N Carolina women top Coastal Carolina 75-49

  19 North Carolina bounced back from a miserable offensive showing with a 75-49 victory over Coastal Carolina on Sunday. Antoinette Bannister came off the bench to score 13 points for the Tar Heels (10-1), whose 49-21 victory over North Carolina Central last [...] more>>

• America's deadly obsession with guns

  Even the colloquial vocabulary which litters American speech betrays a callous indifference to the brute fact of murder. I have heard otherwise sage and highly educated men talk of “taking out” an undesirable foe, as if it were a trivial and simple matter, [...] more>>

• Connecticut school shooting: Democrats promise bill to ban assault weapons

  said Mr Bloomberg, a co-chair of Mayor's Against Illegal Guns. As an alternative, Joe Lieberman, an independent Senator for Connecticut, called for a national 9/11-style 'commission on mass violence' to find ways to reduce future shootings in the United States, [...] more>>

• D.C. appointments for the week of Dec. 17

  Real estate Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors of Silver Spring appointed Michael McGreevy president. Northern Virginia Association of Realtors of Chantilly appointed Jon Wolford chair. Finance Steben & Co. of Rockville appointed Richard Kendrick [...] more>>

• Pentagon front-runner has strong Obama ties

  the world understanding the relations other countries have with the U.S. and vice versa." Defense analyst Loren Thompson, of the Virginia-based Lexington Institute think tank, said Hagel knows the political system and is known for thinking outside the box, [...] more>>

• Campaign Tracking Becoming Year-Round Practice

  statements that sometimes veer into gaffes. The 23-year-old tracker, Brian Jordan, denied the governor's claim on the Maine Democratic Party's website. "Despite what's been said, I don't record private conversations. I don't sit outside his home waiting to [...] more>>