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Major food companies promote childhood obesity
August 18, 2011Governments should ban all advertising of unhealthy food aimed at children and indeed ban the production and sale of such foods entirely.
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Verizon threatens strikers with health care cutoff
August 18, 2011Workers this week will miss their first paycheck as result of the strike, now in its 11th day. Pension and disability benefits were suspended as the strike began.
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What lessons learned in “Rise of the Apes”?
August 17, 2011The film makes you wonder how far humans have come, but it also asks how far we have to go.
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Detroit demands action on jobs
August 17, 2011Over 5,000 jobseekers showed up in Detroit for the second stop on the Congressional Black Caucus's "For the People" tour.
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Wisconsin voters turn thumbs down on Walker agenda
August 17, 2011Wisconsin voters yesterday rejected a well-funded attempt to recall two Democratic state senators who stood up against Gov. Scott Walker.
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