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  • Collision on I-75

    Collision on I-75

    August 13, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    A new book just published by the American Public Health Association takes a rather well-known disaster — the 1990 pile-up of over 100 vehicles in a dense fog bank on Interstate 75, near Chattanooga, Tenn., which...

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  • Texas crime lab crimes

    Texas crime lab crimes

    August 13, 2004

    HOUSTON — Nanon Williams was arrested here in 1992 when he was 17 years old for the crime of capital murder. He was sentenced to death in 1995. He is on death row today because of...

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  • Talbert Trailer workers march for justice

    Talbert Trailer workers march for justice

    August 13, 2004

    Rensselaer, Ind. — “Hands off our health care!” and “No justice, no peace,” echoed through the streets here July 31 as hundreds of steelworkers marched to protest the lockout of the Talbert Trailer workers. Talbert workers...

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  • Minimum wage outrage

    Minimum wage outrage

    August 13, 2004 By Art Perlo

    The federal minimum legal wage is $5.15 per hour. That stinks! A full-time, minimum wage worker receives only $10,300 per year before taxes. By the end of this year, the value of the minimum wage will...

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  • NYC Labor Council says, Bush must go!

    NYC Labor Council says, Bush must go!

    August 13, 2004

    NEW YORK — On the morning of Aug. 2, representatives of New York City labor turned out for a press conference in front of Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican National Convention later this month....

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