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Puerto Ricos teachers fight for public education
February 15, 2008Puerto Rican teachers and their allies took to the streets of San Juan on Feb. 8 to protest the decertification of their union. The decertification happened in reaction to the union’s recent strike vote over the...
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Cuba, Brazil trade ideas, goods
February 15, 2008Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Cuba in mid-January. He and his ministers signed agreements with their Cuban counterparts relating to credit, technical exchanges, trade and energy. On Jan. 15 Lula spent almost three...
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Ohio, Texas could decide Dem primary race
February 15, 2008Unexpectedly, voters in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania could be the decision-makers in the tight Democratic presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Landslide victories by Obama in a series of caucuses and primaries in the...
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Writers win some after 14-week strike
February 15, 2008Against enormous odds and with television and film writers united behind them, leaders of the Writers Guild of America have negotiated a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that amounts to a...
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World notes: Feb. 16, 2008
February 15, 2008Iraq: Food shortages loom Iraq’s government recently announced that a 12-year-old food rationing system set up in response to the U.S.-led embargo against the Saddam Hussein regime will end by next June. UN officials had praised...
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