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  1. OGD: VA nurses get second lives

    By Sarah Dorsey Apr 16, 2010 5:09 p.m.

    Recruiters have long used video games to sell military service to young people. The armed forces also use games -- er, "computer simulations" -- to train troops for battle. Now the Veterans Affairs Department plans to join the fun by sending its nurses to Second Life.

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  2. OGD: Labor releases five enforcement datasets

    By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 9, 2010 4:27 p.m.

    "I now realize that I must have had my first glimmer of the need for preventive journalism as a young West Virginian who would hear of a mine disaster, then read heartbreaking stories of weeping widows and indignant editorials demanding effective safety regulations. But in the years that followed, no reporter went down into the mines to see if they were safer. We only found out they were not after the next disaster when a new round of heartbreaking articles and indignant editorials would appear." -- Charles Peters, Understanding government.com

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  3. Other dangerous mines? Federal data can't tell you

    By Anupama Narayanswamy Apr 6, 2010 1:28 p.m.

    Monday’s explosion that killed 25 miners at Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia came at a mine that had been flagged by inspectors for a series of violations – 3000 since 1995 and more than 500 in 2009 alone.

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