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  • July 14: LETTERS

    July 14: LETTERS

    July 13, 2007

    Brother Quy will be missedOur dear brother and friend, Nguyen Van Quy, a member of the second Vietnam Agent Orange Justice delegation, died yesterday in Hai Phong, Vietnam, at the age of 52 from Agent Orange-related...

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  • EDITORIAL: Rewriting history

    EDITORIAL: Rewriting history

    July 13, 2007

    The Supreme Court, now led by far-right Bush appointee Chief Justice John Roberts, chose the last day of its 2006-07 term to issue a decision on school integration that denies the basic American principle that all...

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  • Demons of racism roam free: The case of the Jena 6

    Demons of racism roam free: The case of the Jena 6

    July 13, 2007

    In a small still mostly segregated section of rural Louisiana, an all-white jury heard a series of white witnesses called by a white prosecutor testify in a courtroom overseen by a white judge in a trial...

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  • Women sue Halliburton for sexual assault in Iraq

    Women sue Halliburton for sexual assault in Iraq

    July 13, 2007

    HOUSTON — Four women who used to work for KBR, formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root, have filed suit against KBR and Halliburton, alleging they were sexually harassed and, in two cases, raped while on...

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  • The truth about the new HPV vaccine

    The truth about the new HPV vaccine

    July 13, 2007

    With the release of Gardasil, Merck’s new vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), public health providers were ecstatic. HPV, an extremely common sexually transmitted virus, can cause genital warts and cancer — most notably cervical cancer, the...

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