Peter Boyer

Newsweek

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Special Correspondent for Newsweek; former staff writer for New Yorker magazine

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Since she was shot in the head at a town meeting in Tucson, Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is said to have made dramatic progress, enough that she's been able to travel…

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President Obama's director of the National Institutes of Health was approved by the Senate without objection, but is now cancelling stem cell research projects he approved, because a…

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