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National Clips
November 7, 2003MACON, Ga.: Tobacco merger to destroy 14,000 jobs It was not the famous “tobacco settlement” where cigarette corporations are paying billions of dollars to states to cover smoking-related health care costs that forced the closure of...
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Canadian health care expert on tour
November 7, 2003Doug Allan, a Toronto-based trade union health care researcher and health coalition organizer, will be speaking on “Lessons from Canada’s Public Health Care System” in a series of three events in the eastern United States this...
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Marlins cruise, Yankees lose
October 31, 2003The Thrill and the Agony This week in sports by Chas Walker The Florida Marlins stunned the baseball world by defeating the New York Yankees 4 games to 2 in the World Series. Few expected such...
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Hold Wal-Mart accountable
October 31, 2003Opinion All across the country Wal-Mart is cashing in on family tragedies. After Doug Sims, a Wal-Mart employee in Plainview, Texas, died of a heart attack in 1998, his wife, Jane, found out exactly what Wal-Mart...
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Letters
October 31, 2003‘Freedom’ to destroy? “1984” here we come again! Welcome to the library of the future: the library with no past. Also, check out the new “Department of Double Standards.” This from the Ananova news web site:...
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