Michelle Obama Praises Healthier Chain-Restaurant Menus

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Couple comes face to face with reality of 'Obamacare'

After more than five weeks on a ventilator, Amy Ward is finally being weaned off it to breathe on her own. She no longer requires dialysis. But a near-fatal infection resulting from a freak accident has left her with a long road of rehab ahead.

In the time he’s spent at his wife’s bedside in a hospital critical care unit, her husband has been able to do a lot of thinking. Ross Daniels, on unpaid family medical leave from his IT job to tend to his wife, has had to face the real possibility that he would lose her, though she’s just 39. At one time, she was given only a 30 to 40 percent chance of surviving.

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SolarStrong: Military Installations Help SolarCity Double Panel Use In The U.S.

As part of Project SolarStrong, SolarCity will team up with the biggest military housing-privatization developers--the housing companies that manage homes on military bases--in the U.S. to install, own, and maintain up to 160,000 rooftop solar installations on 124 military housing developments in 33 states. It's a move that will create over 371 megawatts of power and $1 billion in solar installations--and it may be the largest residential solar project ever.

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