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Editorial: Hypocrisy on terrorism
September 30, 2005While the Bush administration talks tough on terrorism, it went to court to keep admitted terrorist murderer Luis Posada Carriles from being brought to justice. Posada Carriles, among other things, masterminded the 1976 bombing of a...
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Editorial: In defense of science
September 30, 2005Oral arguments began this week on a lawsuit by 11 parents in Dover, Pa., seeking to reverse the local school board’s decision to teach “intelligent design” in the system’s biology classes. The school board argues that...
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Mercury emissions expose extreme rights family values hypocrisy
September 30, 2005On Sept. 13 the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution offered by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) that would have maintained a firm timetable for the reduction in mercury...
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Panel hears bipartisan call to save VA hospitals
September 30, 2005NEW YORK — On Sept. 19 the Veterans Administration Local Advisory Panel (LAP) met here to discuss a report by the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP that included proposals to close the city’s two VA hospitals, Manhattan...
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BP hit with record $21 million fine
September 30, 2005HOUSTON — BP Products North America Inc. has been fined a record $21 million for health and safety violations as a result of a March 23 explosion that killed 15 workers and injured more than 170...
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