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Veterans react to Iraq pullout plan: A war that should never have been fought
March 13, 2009While they see President Obama’s 18-month timetable to remove U.S. troops from Iraq as a necessary first step to change, veterans’ organizations say Iraq and Afghanistan urgently need diplomacy and development, not lingering deployments or troop...
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Jobs report worst since Great Depression
March 13, 2009The United States is now facing levels of joblessness comparable to those of the Great Depression. Labor Department data released this month shows in February, employers eliminated 651,000 jobs, the third month in a row that...
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Scientists predict dramatic rise in sea levels
March 13, 2009Original source: Climate scientists have warned that melting polar ice sheets could cause sea levels to rise twice as much as predicted. A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected a sea...
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Homeowner rip-offs spark scores of lawsuits
March 13, 2009BOSTON, Mar 11 (IPS) - Many of the biggest mortgage lenders in the U.S. have engaged in widespread, systematic schemes that ripped off hundreds of thousands of families seeking to buy a home, refinance or foreclose,...
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L.A. teachers facing mass layoffs
March 13, 2009On Tuesday the Los Angeles Board of Education approved nearly 9,000 layoff notices for permanent elementary school teachers, probationary teachers, and some non-teaching personnel and administration officials. LA is the second largest school district in the...
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