World
Organized labor challenges Irans theocratic state
April 16, 2009With less than two months to go before the June presidential elections in Iran, labor unrest may yet be a factor determining the outcome. The news that Iranian workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company...
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Asbestos activists hail compensation victory
April 15, 2009Asbestos campaigners celebrated on Monday after an Australian woman who died of mesothelioma was posthumously awarded 550,000 Australian dollars (£270,000) in compensation based on her claim that 20 years of washing asbestos-laden clothes had given her...
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Israels new right-wing leaders pose threat to Israel itself, critics say
April 15, 2009Israel’s new right-wing government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and, in particular, statements by his far-right foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, have raised considerable alarm, both within Israel and internationally.
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Amazons epic failure
April 15, 2009I never thought I’d see the day when the children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies was considered more “adult” than Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds, but thanks to Amazon.com I have. In what the company has called...
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Penguins & melting ice: Arctic, Antarctic actors & barometers of globes future
April 14, 2009The North and South Poles are at the center of the earth. The earth’s survival, that is. The two polar regions, the Arctic and Antarctic, are “actors and barometers” of rapid climate and environmental changes that...
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