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  • Boris Yeltsin and Jenny Lopez

    Boris Yeltsin and Jenny Lopez

    May 4, 2007

    A few days ago, according to Pravda (the former paper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union now specializing in National Inquirer-like gossip), a newly rich 35-year-old Russian billionaire banker, Andrei Melnichenko, paid Jennifer Lopez...

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  • Forget the meat! Why an animal-based diet is hazardous to your health

    Forget the meat! Why an animal-based diet is hazardous to your health

    May 4, 2007

    Slowly the truth is emerging that diet is decisive to health. Out of a fog of deliberate confusion and fierce resistance put up by the food and pharmaceutical industries and their allies in government, academia and...

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  • Mississippi on the mind  and Cuba

    Mississippi on the mind and Cuba

    May 4, 2007

    In a front-page story April 22, The New York Times reported that infant mortality rates (IMR) in Mississippi and other Southern states are rising. The IMR measures the number of first-year infant deaths per thousand births....

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  • Faulty economics and the French elections

    Faulty economics and the French elections

    May 4, 2007

    The elections in France demonstrate the power of faulty economic analysis, and more generalized problems with arithmetic, to shape ideas and possibly the future of not only a nation but a continent. The United States has...

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  • Black leaders probe rights violations on border

    Black leaders probe rights violations on border

    May 4, 2007

    TUCSON, Ariz. — A 14-member delegation of African Americans investigated human rights abuses of immigrants, Mexican Americans and indigenous communities on the U.S.-Mexican border, in an April 26-29 fact-finding tour here. The “Braving Borders Building Bridges:...

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