International
Forget the meat! Why an animal-based diet is hazardous to your health
May 4, 2007Slowly 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
May 4, 2007In 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
May 4, 2007The 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
May 4, 2007TUCSON, 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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Castro blasts Bush administrations ethanol program
May 2, 2007Fidel Castro has blasted the Bush administration’s plans to meet the energy and global warming crises by its promotion of a massive international program to convert food into ethanol fuel. His March 29 op-ed in the...
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