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Speaking up vs. anti-immigrant hate campaign

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has backed down from a plan to make regular driver’s licenses available to undocumented immigrants, after being targeted by a national hate campaign in the right-wing media. This is one more...

Lightbulb moment: The mercury dilemma with compact fluorescent lights

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Four Sister’s Housing Cooperative, a leafy, three-building complex with over 400 residents near Vancouver’s bustling waterfront, has replaced all incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lights (CFL) in public areas. The...

Safety and health starts with changing the workplace

After more than nine years of stalling, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has finally taken the important step of establishing a federal regulation requiring employers to furnish, at no cost, all protective equipment...

Shades of Green: Dec. 1

WORLD NOTES: Dec. 1

South Korea: Gov’t promotes North-South integration South Korea’s National Assembly received a proposal from the South’s unification ministry Nov. 22 for an “Inter-Korean Cooperation Project.” The five-year plan was propelled by talks in October between leaders...