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EDITORIAL: Mortgaging our future
February 23, 2007It’s an oft-repeated truism: our children are our future. By that measure, however, our country could be heading for a pretty dismal time, according to a UNICEF report released earlier this month. Called “Report Card 7:...
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EDITORIAL: History matters
February 23, 2007For casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election, women’s rights pioneer Susan B. Anthony was arrested, tried, convicted and fined $100 (which she never paid). In a famous 1873 speech to the court titled “On...
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Yales hospital: Poster child for union-busting
February 23, 2007NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) is 650 miles from the notorious anti-worker Smithfield Foods livestock processing factory in Tar Heel, N.C. On Smithfield’s killing floors and in New Haven’s healing wards, the workers...
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WORLD NOTES
February 23, 2007South Africa: UN studies state’s role in food security A study comparing the effects of unrestrained market mechanisms with the results of state intervention in food production was released in mid-February in Johannesburg, by the UN...
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Colombias Uribe mired in paramilitary scandal
February 23, 2007President Alvaro Uribe’s right-wing Colombian government is dealing with a scandal stemming from revelations of ties between the paramilitary United Self Defense Forces of Colombia and ruling elements in Colombian society. According to U.S. government sources,...
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