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Medical student association demands healthcare for all
March 21, 2008HOUSTON – About 1,000 medical students and their supporters held a rally here at city hall Mar. 14 to demand healthcare for all. The event was organized by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) as part...
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Keeping your hands clean and green
March 21, 2008EARTH TALK From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: My pediatrician swears by those gel hand sanitizers for lowering the risk of my family getting sick during cold and flu season. But I’ve also...
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Obama delivers unprecedented speech on race in America
March 20, 2008Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Mar. 18 delivered what some are calling an unprecedented and remarkable speech on race and the struggle for unity in the United States. Responding to issues that have been raised sharply...
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Obama speaks with empathy and compassion about racism in America
March 20, 2008I am profoundly impressed by Barack Obama's speech on racism in American politics. It is a speech that Hillary Clinton could not have made about any issue, a speech that John McCain would probably sneer at...
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Needed: a new New Deal
March 19, 2008Seventy-six years ago, in the depths of the Great Depression, with jobless workers selling apples on street corners and millions turned out of their homes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt accepted the Democratic presidential nomination calling for a...
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