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  • The airline is offering its second "All You Can Jet" promotion, where pass recipients have one month to travel on JetBlue flights, as many times as they want, for $699. This year's promotion is facilitating at least one band tour and fostering a bond among the travelers.
  • The decision by the Cincinnati-based court took on a special importance because one of the judges upholding the law, Jeffrey Sutton, is a prominent conservative. As a litigator, he made modern states' rights arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court. But in this case, he rejected similar arguments in the context of the national health care law.
  • Between stimulus talk and tax cut jargon there's another story on poverty and unemployment hidden from view. Andy Kroll of The Nation shares a view on those living 'East of the river' already struggling in a weak economy.
  • Facing a $1.5 billion budget deficit, Arizona has reversed authorization for certain types of state-funded transplants. The cuts could mean life or death for 98 low-income residents. Lawmakers may have made the decision based on faulty data, however, so they could reconsider -- but not before January.
  • After two weeks of volcanic eruptions, life for people living near Mount Merapi remains dangerous and difficult. The death toll from the eruptions has surpassed 200, and more than a quarter of a million people have evacuated their homes. While vulcanologists believe the eruption is dying down, they can't guarantee it won't flare up again.
  • After a trip around the world to mend her broken heart, writer Elizabeth Gilbert found herself happily involved with a Brazilian man she vowed never to marry. The problem? As she writes in her new book, Committed, the only way to get him into the United States was to agree to exchange vows.
  • At University of the People, students from across the globe have access to free online classes in business administration and computer science. The school has attracted about 380 students from 81 countries. But in order to survive, the university needs more to enroll, its founder says.
  • In a role reversal, China is flexing its political and economic muscle against the United States by threatening sanctions against American companies involved in selling arms to Taiwan. China is pushing back on a raft of other contentious issues, from sanctions against Iran to President Obama's plan to meet with the Dalai Lama.
  • As red snapper populations along the southeast coast continue to decline, fisherman who depend on the stock are finding themselves at odds with the federal government and scientists who are working to overcoming years of overfishing.
  • Former students of Jaime Escalante, the math teacher portrayed in the 1988 movie Stand and Deliver, are raising money for the man who worked tirelessly to teach them what he believed was the portal to success.
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