National
The book Chavez gave Obama
April 25, 2009A few national security partisans realize now there’s more to worry about than guns, bombs and rogue states. That would be ideas, and last week, a book. It’s a “really dangerous one that can put the...
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Student loan reform: Obama to take on banks and their ‘army of lobbyists’
April 25, 2009On a major education reform offensive this week, President Obama met with working families struggling to pay college expenses for their children. During that meeting at the White House Friday, April 24th, the president announced a...
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1 million kids may have lead poisoning: what you can do
April 25, 2009Three hundred thousand children in the United States are documented as having lead poisoning. Due to poor reporting practices and failure of the health care system to test all children between 1 and 5 years of...
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At home in union-made utopia: PBS looks at the housing co-op movement
April 25, 2009Original source: Three elderly New Yorkers—Yok Ziebel, Julie Luguvoy and Pete Rosenblum—are meeting at the apartment complex in the Bronx where they grew up together. They embrace with all of the affection of lifelong friends. They...
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Restoring reason at the FDA
April 24, 2009It's official. Seventeen year-olds now get a second chance to prevent pregnancy as easily as older women do. The FDA, per order of the White House, extended over-the-counter access to emergency contraception, also known as the...
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