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A grassroots view of San Diegos underbelly
July 2, 2004BOOK REVIEW Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See By Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller The New Press, 2003 Hardcover, 304 pp., $25.95 If you think you can escape to San...
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Government science goes political
July 2, 2004Imagine if a government scientist discovered unseen bacteria in the air that posed serious health risks to the public, but was ordered to suppress the research by an agency with connections to the very industry producing...
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The haves and have-nots
July 2, 2004“Fill it up.” That’s what Paul Allen says when he pulls into the slot where he gets his tank filled. Then Allen plunks down $250,000 for the fill-up. That’s right, one-quarter million dollars, and at the...
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Unfinished business: from Brown to NCLB and beyond
July 2, 2004Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court’s watershed Brown v. Board of Education decision set the precedent for an assertive federal role in American public education. The issues of quality and equality have been on the national...
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Bush, religious right target churches
July 2, 2004Fighters for freedom of religion and freedom of conscience are voicing alarm that 228 years after the nation’s birth, George W. Bush and the ultra-right are waging a ferocious assault on separation of church and state,...
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