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EDITORIAL: Lying about spying
October 19, 2007The Bush administration was pressing phone-spying on Americans long before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a former phone company CEO has revealed. According to a stunning Oct. 11 report in The Rocky Mountain News, former...
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Cubas wonder of the modern world: Latin American school of medicine
October 19, 2007HAVANA — “Best decision I ever made,” said medical student Cori Marshall of Chicago characterizing her first year at Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (LASM). The school graduated its third class of new doctors on...
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N.Y. labor mobilizes to end Iraq war
October 19, 2007NEW YORK CITY — The mobilization for the Oct. 27 peace demonstration here is now in full swing. A significant number of New York-area labor unions have endorsed the action. So far, 15 unions from New...
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RNs strike over patient care
October 19, 2007BERKELEY, Calif. — Nearly 5,000 registered nurses at 15 northern California hospitals walked the picket line Oct. 10-11 in the largest strike of RNs in the state in a decade. Most struck hospitals belong to the...
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Up to a third of U.S. jobs are low-wage, researcher says
October 19, 2007Fighting poverty is ‘moral’ issue> WASHINGTON (PAI) — “One-fourth to one-third” of all U.S. jobs “are low-wage jobs” whose workers need not just a raise, but a support system to help lift them out of poverty,...
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