He has only been in office for three months, during which time he has been quite preoccupied with putting together an executive, saving the American economy from its latest Republican-engineered meltdown, and trying to get a few things done on pressing issues ignored by Congress these past 20 years.

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Even American International Group (AIG), a company synonymous with the mortgage meltdown, is suing Bank of America for mortgages issued by Countrywide.

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Even subsistence fishermen, who eat far more fish than the typical American, would receive a dose of radiation from the cesium isotopes released in the meltdown equivalent to a single dental X-ray, Fisher and his colleagues reported.

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Nobody feared a global meltdown in that case, though there were worries (justified, it turned out) about Latin American contagion.

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Unless we come up with long-term solutions to grow the American economy, create more jobs and maintain our standard of living, we run the risk of a societal meltdown.

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