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  • EDITORIAL: Happy holidays

    EDITORIAL: Happy holidays

    December 22, 2008

    Happy holidays This is our last print edition for 2008. Do not fear — we will be publishing online throughout the holiday season. But we do want to take the opportunity to send a greeting to...

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  • EDITORIAL: The peoples train

    EDITORIAL: The peoples train

    December 22, 2008

    What do Oklahoma teenager Matt Webber, the Tuskegee Airmen, Tim Robbins, Seal, Spike Lee, Elvis Costello, Susan Sarandon, Sting and the Lesbian and Gay Band Association have in common? All, along with up to 4 million...

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  • Budget and planet friendly gift ideas

    Budget and planet friendly gift ideas

    December 22, 2008

    • About 25 years ago I lived in Hibbing on Minnesota’s Iron Range and tried to survive selling Electrolux vacuums to unemployed miners. So, I gave a symbol of my woeful financial condition: an apple and...

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  • A peace policy for South Asia

    A peace policy for South Asia

    December 22, 2008 By Norman Markowitz

    A few weeks ago, terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai caught the attention of the world. What were the historical roots of these attacks?

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  • New green world waits in the wings

    New green world waits in the wings

    December 22, 2008

    Mid-December brought developments at global, national, state and local levels in the race to reverse global warming and grow the economy. California’s Air Resources Board, Dec. 11, unanimously passed a first-ever comprehensive blueprint to reach the...

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