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Alison Richards of NPR News begins a three part series on osteoperosis. Today she details how the disease has become a public health crisis in such a short period of time. No one realized the size of the problem until the accountants took a look at the heath care costs.

Peter Kenyon of NPR News, reports from Erie, Pennsylvania that Texas Governor George W. Bush is defending his state's record in providing health insurance for children. A federal judge in Texas has ordered the state to improve its enrollment in a healthcare program for poor children. Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore has been pressing the Republican candidate for details of his health care plan for the nation. But Governor Bush is not being rushed. He says he'll have details of the plan after the Labor Day holiday. He goes on to criticize the Clinton-Gore administration for being ineffective on this issue for the past seven years.

When Al Gore and George W. Bush talk about health care, they sound a lot alike. But as Julie Rovner reports, the presidential candidates' plans for health care in the U.S. are starkly different. Gore wants to expand existing government programs to bring health coverage to more people. Bush believes he can achieve the same thing through private-sector initiatives.

Commentator David Weinberger recently returned from four days in Beijing, China. He says as a Westerner it was a truly foreign experience, but there's one place he felt completely at home: on the Internet.

NPR's Vicky Que reports High School biology teachers are attending summer classes to study the human genome project. They want to stay current with all of the latest developments in order to teach it next Fall.

Commentator Mary Sojourner attempts to come to terms with the shooting death of a policeman in Flagstaff, Arizona. Unwilling to rely on standard responses to the usual questions of how and why this happens, she raises a few of her own.

Pfizer says data supports its request for Food and Drug Administration approval of a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine about six months after the second dose in people 16 years and older.

The Justice Department is seeking to temporarily stop enforcement of the new Texas law that effectively bans most abortions in the state. The department is already suing to block the law altogether.

Plymouth State University students and community members protested at the school last week, saying the university's response to recent acts of racism and violence was inadequate.

A continuación, lee las noticias del miércoles 15 de septiembre.También puedes escuchar haciendo click en el audio.Una nota: Lo escrito es nuestro guión para nuestras grabaciones. Tenlo en cuenta si ves algunas anotaciones diferentes.