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NE health summit: Hundreds demand reform
March 27, 2009BURLINGTON, Vt. — Two different groups of people gathered here March 17 to talk about solving the health care crisis. Inside the Davis Center at the University of Vermont were some 400 people invited to the...
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Neo-con ideologues launch new foreign policy group
March 27, 2009WASHINGTON, Mar 25 (IPS) - A newly-formed and still obscure neo-conservative foreign policy organisation is giving some observers flashbacks to the 1990s, when its predecessor staked out the aggressively unilateralist foreign policy that came to fruition...
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Unemployment hits harder among Blacks, Latinos
March 27, 2009(AP) The ax fell without sound or shadow: Tatiana Gallego was suddenly called into human resources and laid off from her job as an admissions counselor for a fashion college. 'The way people tried to explain...
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Webcams show Bald Eagle hatchlings
March 27, 2009A webcam at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center in Virginia caught the hatching of two Bald Eaglets born six days apart late last month, according to the National Wildlife Refuge System's website. A second...
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Pass the budget! Grassroots coalition demands action
March 26, 2009WASHINGTON—President Obama appealed to the people to throw their support behind his first federal budget to help pull the country out of the deep economic crisis. Speaking at his second White House news conference the President...
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