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The prescription drug law ripoff
November 4, 2005We just saw, courtesy the Toledo Union Journal, the most coherent explanation yet of who pays how much under GOP President George W. Bush’s Medicare prescription drugs law. Since the law takes effect Jan. 1, and...
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Capitalism in hot water
November 4, 2005Science News As this is being written, Hurricane Wilma has just ravaged Florida after doing a number on Mexico and Cuba. At the same time, scientists are warning of massive die-offs of Antarctic fish and the...
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Canadas public health care system under assault
November 4, 2005VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canada’s universal access health care system is envied by many worldwide. However, Canada is moving in the direction of adopting the profit-driven U.S. health care model. Since the 1990s, Canada’s federal and...
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New survey: Fund storm aid, not war
November 4, 2005A poll released late last month sheds dramatic new light on Americans’ priorities for use of their country’s resources, and reveals contradictory views on poverty and race in the United States. One of the survey’s most...
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World Notes
November 4, 2005Greece: First Call Center Conference Union Network International’s first-ever Call Center Conference, meeting last week in Athens, focused on how to ensure that outsourced or offshored work is unionized. The conference heard how UNI’s newest union,...
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