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  • Market efficiency and health care

    Market efficiency and health care

    June 1, 2007

    They are truly wonderful, the efficiencies of the market. For several decades now, those who advocate privatizing virtually every government program preach about how much more efficient private business is, how much more can be accomplished...

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  • The English submarine

    The English submarine

    June 1, 2007

    The press dispatches bring the news; the submarine belongs to the Astute Class, the first of its kind to be constructed in Great Britain in more than two decades. “A nuclear reactor will allow it to...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    June 1, 2007

    Stop cuts to HIV/AIDS care I work as a massage therapist for clients with AIDS and HIV at the CORE Center, which is an outpatient clinic that is part of Cook County Hospital. I am paid...

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  • EDITORIAL: Taking back America

    EDITORIAL: Taking back America

    June 1, 2007

    The Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) will convene its sixth annual “Take Back America” conference in Washington, D.C., June 18. Every year for the past five years thousands of union members, peace, civil and human rights...

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  • EDITORIAL: Reverse unequal pay ruling

    EDITORIAL: Reverse unequal pay ruling

    June 1, 2007

    The U.S. Supreme Court’s extreme right majority handed down a decision May 29 crippling the right of women workers to win justice in pay discrimination cases. The court ruled 5-4 that women have 180 days to...

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