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Tea Party radicals gear up for 2010 elections

Dec. 13, 2009
Organizers of the conservative Tea Party movement are forging plans to translate the anger that fueled nationwide anti-tax rallies and town hall protests into an electoral force that can boot incumbents in next year's midterm elections. Their targets range...
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The tea-party movement, drawing in conservative activists across the United States, has also lured fundraisers, some of them for-profit companies.

Boston Tea Party is protest template

BOSTON, April 20 (UPI) -- The Boston Tea Party has become more than a moment in history, now representing a template for protests across the nation, a historian says.

Bioterror defense -- tea anthrax antidote

CARDIFF , Wales, March 14 (UPI) -- Welsh and U.S. researchers say black tea -- without milk -- may be an antidote to the Bacillus anthracis -- anthrax.

Changes brewing for bagged tea

LONDON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Tea drinking in Great Britain is steeped in a revolution that could mark the end of the traditional paper tea bag in favor of a nylon sack.

Tea-drinking record set in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Thousands of volunteers took part in a tea ceremony in Nagoya, Japan, Sunday, breaking the world record for simultaneous tea-drinking.

Hawaiian farmers promoting unique tea

HILO, Hawaii, March 6 (UPI) -- A group of Hawaiian tea growers is trying to establish its crop as a high quality product unique to their part of the world.

Green tea benefits stressed

AUGUSTA, Ga., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A cell biologist at the Medical College of Georgia is helping the health benefits of green tea find their way into chewing gum, mints and skin cream.

Green tea helps acne

SAN FRANCISCO, March 24 (UPI) -- Researchers have found green tea might be an effective treatment for acne.

Tea gives big boost to insulin

BELTSVILLE, Md., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists said Thursday they have found common tea can boost insulin activity by more than 15-fold, making it a strong potential weapon in the fight against diabetes.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler