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Bill nip-tuck: Botax out, Tantax in

Dec. 20, 2009
Want to look younger? Forget the tanning bed; get those Botox injections instead. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, under pressure from doctors, has inserted a little noticed provision in his "manager's amendent" to the health care bill that kills the Botax and enacts a new Tantax....
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch