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  • Rally calls for new health care Rx for California

    Rally calls for new health care Rx for California

    July 6, 2007

    SAN FRANCISCO — Top elected officials including Mayor Gavin Newsom urged far-reaching health care reforms, as patients and families shared horror stories about their care June 28 on the steps of City Hall. The rally was...

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  • July 7 WHATS REALLY GOOD

    July 7 WHATS REALLY GOOD

    July 6, 2007

    Captain Irving makes history Barrington Irving, 23, an aerospace student at Florida Memorial University, says he is the first African American and youngest person to fly around the world alone. Flying a single-engine plane called “Inspiration,”...

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  • CIA family jewels exposed

    CIA family jewels exposed

    July 6, 2007

    WASHINGTON — Call it the “family jewels” or the “skeletons in the closet,” the 702 pages of classified CIA files released June 26 expose the agency, once again, as deeply involved in assassinations, the Watergate conspiracy,...

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  • Midnight thoughts on a lovelorn mockingbird

    Midnight thoughts on a lovelorn mockingbird

    July 6, 2007

    Every night, just after midnight, the mockingbird that resides in the holly tree outside our bedroom window begins to sing. He is so loud, his songs so varied and complex, he wakes me up. I lie...

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  • Blairs successor: more of the same?

    Blairs successor: more of the same?

    July 6, 2007

    News Analysis LONDON — You could almost hear a sigh of relief at the eagerly awaited departure of Tony Blair. The man who took Britain into more wars than any other prime minister, who worshiped at...

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