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May 4, 2007Greetings from France The first round of the French elections saw 80 percent of the eligible voters turn out, the highest percentage since 1965. Since 2002, every person turning 18 years old is automatically registered to...
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EDITORIAL: Privatization = 250,000 displaced New Orleanians
May 4, 2007Some 250,000 refugees from Hurricane Katrina still cannot go home, nearly two years after the levees broke. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin led a march April 28 by former city residents...
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Forget the meat! Why an animal-based diet is hazardous to your health
May 4, 2007Slowly the truth is emerging that diet is decisive to health. Out of a fog of deliberate confusion and fierce resistance put up by the food and pharmaceutical industries and their allies in government, academia and...
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Mississippi on the mind and Cuba
May 4, 2007In a front-page story April 22, The New York Times reported that infant mortality rates (IMR) in Mississippi and other Southern states are rising. The IMR measures the number of first-year infant deaths per thousand births....
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Faulty economics and the French elections
May 4, 2007The elections in France demonstrate the power of faulty economic analysis, and more generalized problems with arithmetic, to shape ideas and possibly the future of not only a nation but a continent. The United States has...
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