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Privatization of trash-hauling enrages residents
March 8, 2008Workers’ Correspondence UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio – The city council here had planned a quick union-busting decision to privatize waste collection, a sweet-heart deal with non-union Texas-based Inland Waste Service. They figured to give the swift boot...
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Self-righteous Vegetarians?
March 6, 2008** ENGLISH ** EARTH TALK From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Vegetarians and vegans are so self-righteous about not eating meat and how meat eating is so bad for the environment. How true...
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True costs of war
March 6, 2008Just in time for the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a new book by economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes attempts to project the real cost of the war. “The Three Trillion Dollar...
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Where the AFL-CIO stands on presidential race
March 5, 2008SAN DIEGO – As the executive council of the nation’s 10 million member AFL-CIO meets here March 4 – 6 to kick off its biggest ever election drive, the federation is not ready to make an...
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The NIU killings: making sense of the senseless
March 5, 2008DEKALB, Ill. – On the afternoon of Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, emerged from behind the stage of a small lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire upon the students and...
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