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Aging population no cause for crisis
July 22, 2005Efforts to convince us that Social Security faces a crisis often start with the demographic argument: the U.S. population is aging. The White House web site says that in 1950 there were 16 active workers supporting...
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The railroad spirit and apple pie
July 22, 2005The railroad worker has his own special psychology. His sense of control over the long trains, his feeling that he occupies a strategic position in industry, his meeting with many new scenes and people daily, his...
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World Notes
July 22, 2005Afghanistan: Officials accused of war crimes Human Rights Watch issued a report July 7 pointing out that many high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan’s current government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses...
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More calls to free former Haitian prime minister
July 22, 2005Despite mounting pressure for his release, deposed Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune remains in custody and is continuing a prolonged hunger strike in protest against his yearlong detention without trial. After going before a judge on...
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UN group faults U.S. on Cuban 5
July 22, 2005An agency of the UN Human Rights Commission recently criticized the U.S. government’s handling of the case of the Cuban Five, five men arrested in Miami in September 1998 on various charges, including, in three cases,...
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