Thomas Riggins
LATEST ARTICLES BY Thomas Riggins
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Opinion
The rising medical debt crisis
May 1, 2012Hundreds of thousands of laid off and discharged workers have lost their health insurance as a result of the current depression, resulting in an alarming jump in the amount of medical debt.
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Fast food blues
April 3, 2012Not only is fast food bad for your physical health but there is mounting scientific evidence that your mental health also suffers.
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Meat, money, and markets: More bad news
March 26, 2012We've known for some time that having too much red meat in our diets has negative health consequences.
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Sugar: the toxic spoonful
March 16, 2012The people who make Sugar Frosted Flakes were on to something when they dropped "sugar" from the name of their product.
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Size matters re school classes, scientists find
March 8, 2012The class size issue is better given a scientific consideration than a political one.
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Republicans and the corporate attack on science
March 1, 2012Fedoroff and other scientists are positively amazed at the hostility towards scientific proposals put forth to solve many of the problems facing the world today.
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Behind the scenes: the secret NATO report on Afghanistan
February 8, 2012Prisoners think that in areas where the U.S. forces withdraw and turn over control to the Afghan Army, that army begins to cooperate with the Taliban.
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The first casualty of war
January 26, 2012It was really disheartening watching the Republican presidential wannabes debating in Florida last Monday.
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