On a separate issue, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week criticized international efforts by Islamic countries to ban anti-religious speech.

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I'm Bob Doughty. And I'm Shirley Griffith. Today we tell about efforts to save an island in the American state of Maryland.

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After the storm, recovery and aid efforts by local, state and federal agents were not well organized.

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State efforts at online sales tax collection have made it much, much easier to run my small business.

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ObamaCare makes federal and state efforts to cap rates even more complicated because the law mandates all sorts of costly benefits.

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It's a shame that behavioral economics has become associated with ineffectual nanny-state efforts like the big-soda ban, because it's actually a tremendously interesting field of study, one that offers widely applicable insights into human nature.

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