The Americans are coming away with many of the Nobel Prizes. Three Americans won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greiler and Jack W. Szostak. They discovered a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells. Three other Americans won the Nobel prize for physics.

President Obama has been meeting with his security members and with Secretary Robert Gates, in trying to determine what the strategy will be for Afghanistan in the near future. General McChrystal has requested an additional forty thousand troops for the region. Secretary Gates has said, if approved, the troops would not be ready until January 2010.
The death toll has risen in recent days in the region. Eight soldiers were killed in one firefight, one hundred enemy soldiers were reportedly killed at the same time.

Iran and North Korea have signaled that they are willing to participate in talks, about their nuclear programs.

Representative Charlie Rangel was able to withstand a third attempt by the Republicans to remove him from his leadership position, of Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

The Baucus health care reform bill, is starting to gain some Republican
support, due to pressure from the public, who also want a public option included in the bill. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports the plan will cost $829 billion dollars over a ten year period, and will save $81 billion dollars from the deficit. The plan in its current form will reportedly cover 94% of Americans. Bob Dole has added his voice, to promote passage of the bill.

Countdown's Keith Oberman is calling for a six state free health clinic operation, to put pressure on the six Democrats who are standing in the way, by siding with the Republicans to block the passage of the health care reform bill. A free health care clinic was held in Houston, Texas, where 1,500 people showed up needing care. Information on which states will be involved and how to participate in the organizing can be found at www.msnbc.com/countdown.

Levi Johnston will be posing for Playgirl, and in case you have not seen it, he is selling nuts in a new commercial.

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