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EDITORIAL: Global warming: act now
November 3, 2006A new British government study considered the most comprehensive review on the economic impact of global warming says “staying the course” will have dire consequences for human social and economic activity. At the same time, it...
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EDITORIAL: Your vote matters!
November 3, 2006To the credit of the American people — and despite all the Bush administration/Repub-lican efforts at intimidation, threats, lies, spin and mudslinging — polls have shown the Bush Republicans in a free fall. In this highly...
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We too sing America. The struggle for African American equality, from slavery to today
November 3, 2006Returning this fall to the campus where he became a professor, Walter R. Allen led a mainly student audience at the University of Michigan’s School of Education through the history of the African American struggle against...
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Stem cell battle in Missouri
November 3, 2006The Stem Cell Initiative on the ballot in Missouri would amend the state’s constitution to protect stem cell research and therapies allowed by federal law. Missouri would be the first state to do so. The campaign...
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Inequalitys cause: loss of power
November 3, 2006Recent data show economists, not welders and machinists, need retraining Recently, there has been growing recognition of the enormous increase in U.S. income inequality that has occurred over the last 25 years, bringing back inequality levels...
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