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News :: Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Labor : Protest Activity |
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Protesters Pay Tribute to Fallen Troops |
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24 Oct 2004
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 "We just wanted to get across the idea that there's a human cost to this war," said Elder, 49, who owns a real estate title company in Bethesda, Md. "We're not the radical ones. We are moderates, We're not all antiwar, we're just against this war." |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Health |
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Community Rally for Access to Emergency Contraception |
by Brooke Anderson
brooke (nospam) shout.net (verified) |
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24 Oct 2004
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Thursday, October 28th, 2004
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Mini Park II, SE corner of Green & Neil
across from Osco Drug Store, Champaign, IL
Attend a Community Rally for Access to Emergency Contraception (EC) to learn more about EC and to help advocate for policies that would allow more women to have access to EC. |
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News :: Agriculture : Children : Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Globalization : Health : Political-Economy |
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The Next Green Revolution: The Vote of Three Counties in a Non-Swing State May Decide the Fate of the World |
by Andrew Christie
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24 Oct 2004
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Dr. Dan Peterson made the “don’t stop the march of progress” argument, making the analogy to the early days of the automotive industry: Dangerously unsafe early vehicles gradually improved, their defects eliminated through research. We didn’t ban cars; the technology was allowed to advance.
One of the audience members pointed out that a car cannot pass along the characteristics of a bad muffler to other cars. She might well have added that they also can’t transfer bad-muffler traits to other species, nor pass along characteristics that go undetected for a generation or two before triggering unforeseen reactions in combination with viruses that have lain dormant for millions of years, nor cause problems that cannot be corrected -- say, a legacy of birth defects or an unstoppable plague -- even if you recall every defective vehicle you produced. |
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Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney |
by Katha Pollitt
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23 Oct 2004
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Thank God for Mary Cheney. Without her, right-wing pundits would be stuck with David Brooks's truly embarrassing "Bush is heart, Kerry is head" line--vote for Bush, he cares less about the facts! |
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Interview :: Elections & Legislation |
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Noam Chomsky Interview |
by Jennifer Bleyer
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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23 Oct 2004
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"There are some differences, and small differences in a system of enormous power can translate into substantial effects. The Bush administration, if it gets another mandate, may do very serious damage to the world and the country.." |
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BTL:Shocking History of Voter Disenfranchisement Based on Race Still Haunts.... |
by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
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23 Oct 2004
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...U.S. Electoral Process ~ Interview with Khalilah Brown-Dean, assistant professor of African-American Studies and Political Science at Yale University, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus |
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