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  • Drug giants fight back: Protect profits

    Drug giants fight back: Protect profits

    January 30, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Maximizing their already astronomical profits, prescription drug manufacturers are devising programs to increase their profit rates. They know that these measures will hurt people most in need, but they truly have no shame.

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  • Guilty coal operator takes no action

    Guilty coal operator takes no action

    January 30, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala. – This is the second bitter winter for 13 families in Brookwood, Ala. They are awaiting a full accounting of the worst coal mining disaster in 17 years and the “official” report from...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    January 30, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    CLEVELAND: 50th city against war / JERSEY CITY, NJ: Council votes against Iraq war / PITTSBURGH: Freezin’ for peace / SANTA BARBARA, Calif.: Nobel scientists say peace, not war / UNIONTOWN, Pa.: Neighbors demand justice /...

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  • LA labor takes stand against war

    LA labor takes stand against war

    January 30, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, representing 360 unions and more than 800,000 members, unanimously passed a resolution against the Bush administration’s drive for war against Iraq, Jan. 27.

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  • Food crisis in Africa

    Food crisis in Africa

    January 30, 2003 By Greg Godwin

    The United Nations estimates that in sub-Saharan Africa 38 million people are in danger of starvation within months. To give this some perspective, this figure is roughly equivalent to the population of Poland or Spain, and...

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