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N.Y. to slash literacy funding
April 9, 2010Though illiteracy here and across the U.S. continues to be a growing social problem, efforts to combat it are under attack by the city and state legislature, under the guise of reigning in runaway spending.
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Census, Latinos and the race question
April 9, 2010Question nine on the census form raises a big question on race and self-identity.
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Kyrgyzstan: A “free market” disaster
April 9, 2010The convulsions in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan have a lot less to do with the yearning for democracy there than they do with the aftermath of the World Trade Organization's forced "liberalization" of its...
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Palestinians and Israelis call for nonviolent people power to end occupation
April 9, 2010A meeting between Israeli and Palestinian Communist leaders last month highlighted a new approach that is gaining favor among Palestinians as the path to achieving a state of their own alongside Israel.
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Court strikes blow against equal Internet access
April 9, 2010A blow was struck to equal access to the Internet by a federal appeals court this week.
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