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Shots - Health Blog
3:32 pm
Tue September 25, 2012

Branding Health Care Exchanges To Make The Sale

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Peter Lee, executive director of the California Health Benefit Exchange, discusses California's health care plans in Sacramento in July.
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Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 6:39 pm

As states work to comply with the federal health care law, many are designing their insurance exchanges, where people will be able to shop for coverage.

But just the word "exchange" sounds to many like off-putting government-speak, and some states are eager to come up with a more appealing name for these new marketplaces.

Peter Lee directs California's Health Benefit Exchange. It's up for a new name, and Lee says they want it to sound fresh, dynamic and innovative.

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The Salt
3:24 pm
Tue September 25, 2012

Greek Olive Oil Woes Echoes Country's Broader Economic Challenges

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A Greek farmer drives home with his fresh pressed olive oil in barrels near Alyki, Greece. The country's pure olive oil is hard to find, expensive and poorly marketed, businessmen say.
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Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 6:39 pm

Greece is in the fifth year of a painful recession, and it doesn't look like it's going to end anytime soon. One big problem the country faces is a shortage of strong companies that know how to compete on the world market. And nowhere is this more painfully apparent than in the challenges faced by the country's olive oil business.

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Latin America
3:23 pm
Tue September 25, 2012

Bolivia's Cerro Rico: The Mountain That Eats Men

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Cerro Rico, or Rich Mountain, rises like a monument in Potosi, Bolivia. It has produced silver, and hardship, for centuries. Now it may be in danger of collapse.
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Saturnino Soncko is 58, but the fine deadly dust he inhaled while working in the silver mines of Cerro Rico has left him an invalid, gasping for breath in the pulmonary wing of a public hospital in Potosi, Bolivia.
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A 17-year-old miner's hand, already battered from back-breaking work in Cerro Rico in Potosi, Bolivia, on Aug. 17.
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A family celebrates a religious festival in the Calvary neighborhood of Potosi, at the foot of Cerro Rico, on Aug. 18.
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Miners' families celebrating in Potosi, a break from the hardships of work in the silver mines.
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Elogio Tola, 45, a miner since he was a boy, takes a break with coca leaves, chewing bagfuls to ward off hunger and exhaustion in the Cerro Rico silver mines in Potosi on Aug. 17.
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Cerro Rico: Rising like a monument in Potosi, Bolivia, the 'Rich Mountain' provided silver that bankrolled the Spanish Empire.
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Miners' families celebrate a religious festival in the Calvary neighborhood of Potosi, Bolivia, a break from the hardships in Cerro Rico.
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Saturnino Soncko, 58, has been inhaling the fine dust at the silver mines of Cerro Rico for years. He is now extremely ill, gasping for breath in the pulmonary wing of a public hospital in Potosi, Bolivia.
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Elogio Tola, 45, a miner since he was a boy, takes a break with coca leaves, chewing bagfuls to ward off hunger and exhaustion in the Cerro Rico silver mines in Potosi last month.
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Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 6:39 pm

Near the mountain city of Potosi in the southern highlands of Bolivia, the cone-shaped peak of Cerro Rico stands as a 15,800-foot monument to the tragedies of Spanish conquest. For centuries, Indian slaves mined the mountain's silver in brutal conditions to bankroll the Spanish empire.

Today, the descendants of those slaves run the mines. But hundreds of years of mining have left the mountain porous and unstable, and experts say it is in danger of collapsing.

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Middle East
1:52 pm
Tue September 25, 2012

As Numbers Swell, Syrian Refugees Face New Woes

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A Syrian refugee walks with her children at Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, near the Syrian border, Sept. 8. Around 30,000 Syrians live at the camp, with the numbers growing each day.
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Newly arrived Syrian refugees gather at Zaatari camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, Aug. 29. Residents have rioted over the poor living conditions at the camp. The Jordanian government is not allowing Syrians to leave the camp and join friends or family elsewhere in the country.
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Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 6:39 pm

Syria's refugees keep growing dramatically in number, and no country in the region has taken in more of them than Jordan — a poor, desert nation that is now hosting some 200,000 Syrians.

The conditions for the refugees are perhaps harsher in Jordan than in any other country, with many people sheltered in tents on a hot, dusty plain just inside Jordan's northern border with Syria.

At the Zaatari camp, everything is covered with a layer of sand and dirt; rows and rows of tents, once white, are now a golden color.

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The Two-Way
6:48 am
Tue September 25, 2012

Bring Back The Real NFL Refs! Debacle At End Of Game Adds To Outrage

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Confusion: One official (to the left) signals touchdown for Seattle. The other signals that a touchback — possession — for Green Bay.
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Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 6:39 pm

Football fans are furious. Bettors are out an estimated $150 million. Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin — the Republican who's famous for battling with organized labor — is on the side of the referees union. And the NFL is in something of a "prevent defense," saying that nothing can be done to change the outcome.

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