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February 10, 2006India: Airport workers on strike About 23,000 employees at Mumbai and Delhi airports successfully resolved their strike that followed a decision by the authorities to turn over the airports to private companies for upgrading. All of...
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Venezuelans speak their minds
February 10, 2006CARACAS, Venezuela — As this city filled up with delegates from 160 countries attending the sixth World Social Forum last month, one thing seemed to be on their minds: learning more about the revolutionary process taking...
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Cubas energy: revolution within a revolution
February 10, 2006Cuba’s struggle goes beyond overcoming a state of siege and surviving the fall of the Soviet bloc. It ends neither with health care, schools, and food for all, nor with the battle of ideas. There’s more...
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Texans protest Bush school visit
February 10, 2006When George W. and Laura Bush visited Townview Magnet School in Dallas, Feb. 3, local media gushed over Bush’s no-funding, test-emphasizing No Child Left Behind education flim-flam and his pretense that he favors science education, but...
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N.Y. transit dispute still unresolved
February 10, 2006NEW YORK — The dispute between Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority following transit workers’ rejection of a proposed contract continues. While the union is seeking to return to good faith bargaining,...
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