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(Newser) - A Bush appointee spiked a 2006 surgeon general's report on global health issues for not promoting the administration's policy efforts, WaPo reports. Richard Steiger, an HHS official and longtime Bush family friend, suppressed a report urging Americans to take on global health problems, and discussed connections between poverty and illness.

(Newser) - Roger Ebert will show up at his ninth annual Overlooked Film Festival in Urbana, he writes in the Sun-Times, although he's recovering from cancer surgery that's left him temporarily mute and heavily bandaged. "We spend too much time hiding illness," Ebert writes. "I'm not going to miss...