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  • EDITORIAL Pelosi and the CIA

    EDITORIAL Pelosi and the CIA

    May 21, 2009

    The Republicans, with their fever-pitched attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for what and when she knew about the Bush administration’s torture policies, are only adding to and continuing a national disgrace. The Bush administration carefully...

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  • Science behind Angels and Demons

    Science behind Angels and Demons

    May 21, 2009

    Will human-made black holes destroy the world? Could artificially created anti-matter be an alternative source of energy? Did Al Gore really invent the World Wide Web? Do super-secret super-sonic jets that can cross the Atlantic Ocean...

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  • EDITORIAL Regulation: the next frontier

    EDITORIAL Regulation: the next frontier

    May 21, 2009

    Now that U.S. taxpayers have invested a trillion dollars -- plus $10 trillion more in credit -- many are asking 'What happens next to prevent a repeat of this fiasco?' Part of the answer can perhaps...

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  • EDITORIAL Want to secure Social Security? Lift the cap

    EDITORIAL Want to secure Social Security? Lift the cap

    May 21, 2009

    Right-wing Republican Party-linked think tanks want to eliminate Social Security. They are using a recent report from the Social Security trustees that indicate the recession has harmed the long-term financial security of the program's trust fund...

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  • The nameless factory behind the Lipton global brand name

    The nameless factory behind the Lipton global brand name

    May 21, 2009

    Be the best you can be': Unilever's Lipton tea factory in Karachi has no name, no logo and no permanent employees. Lipton, as one of Unilever's leading billion dollar brands, is aggressively promoted in multi-million dollar...

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