Builders hadn't just created a tour of nations for the cancer benefit; they'd also stocked it with activities: skeet shooting in Central Park, musical performances in Dublin's Blarney Stone pub, sailboat races around a miniature Australia and sky diving..
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]]> Swaminathan says the water became so bad that, “even the dogs refused to drink it.” Although the water has improved somewhat since the plant closed, the villagers still depend on government-subsidized trucks to deliver water each week.
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]]> "The global tobacco treaty establishes that the tobacco industry has a conflict of interest with public health, and therefore should have no influence on health policies," says Kathy Mulvey
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]]> "Cities are sending the wrong message about the quality of public water when we spend taxpayer dollars on water in disposable containers from a private corporation," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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]]> The company's most infamous moment came last September, when Blackwater operatives were alleged to have gunned down 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square. A U.S. military investigation labeled the shootings a "criminal event,"...
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]]> Lee, 33, sees clotheslines as the solution. But a growing number of housing complexes and communities, viewing them as eyesores that lower property values, have gone so far as to ban them.
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]]> "A military strike (against Iran) would in my opinion be worse than anything else ... It would transform the Middle East region into a ball of fire," ElBaradei said in an interview with Al-Arabiya television.
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]]> “These soldiers were bleeding from the nose, spitting blood,” said Danny Langford, an equipment technician from Texas brought to work at the Qarmat Ali Water treatment plant in 2003. “They were sick.”
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]]> So we wrote it. And the people with money didn't see a way to make a profit on it so we got someone to make it in Bulgaria for a fraction of what we really needed. But we made it anyway.
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]]> For anyone who has had their health insurance denied, dropped or delayed.
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]]> Based on information from their 2006 tax returns, Ettlinger shows, line by line, the tremendous savings offered under the Bush tax cuts. He contrasts this with the even greater savings under McCain's plan...
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]]> when Cindy McCain says, "All I know is that I've always been proud of my country," take it with a grain of salt. She spent at least three years stoned out of her mind. It's impossible to know what she thought during that time.
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]]> It's not just that Russert abetted the Bush Administration in the Iraq War; much of the media shares that role. It's that he did damage in a wide range of contexts. There are two reasons for this: his tactics and his substance.
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]]> The provision most likely to hold these programs accountable and reduce abuse—a "private right of action" which would allow parents and children to sue the facilities in federal court and receive reimbursement for attorneys' fees—has been removed. Why?
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]]> Speakers identified former Yugoslavia, Sudan's Darfur region, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Liberia as conflict regions where deliberate sexual violence had occurred on a mass scale.
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]]> Former presidential spokesperson Scott McClellan gives tough testimony about the Plame affair and Iraq before the House Judiciary Committee.
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]]> The nation's most prominent Religious Right legal group is looking for a pastor who will knowingly break the law and spark an IRS penalty.
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]]> On fundamental matters of privacy and accountability, the new FISA Amendments Act reduces the separation of powers to a check-the-box exercise.
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]]> Crude oil has risen 700 percent in seven years; the lack of oversight has allowed companies like Phibro to pull in huge and questionable profits.
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]]> The colossal mismanagement of water in Georgia has produced an urban crisis with no clear solution other than a return to smart government.
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]]> The corporate agriculture industry would like nothing better than to see us spend all of our free time in our gardens and not in political dissent.
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]]> But most of that stuff is old news. The scarier revelations involve the people on the other side of his podium: the reporters and editors who cover Washington and who helped to carry the White House message.
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]]> The extraordinary race for the Democratic presidential nomination between a woman and a biracial man has seemed secondary, at times, to how the political process has been democratized and compromised by the Internet.
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]]> Across the state, 95 towns have limited or no access to high-speed Internet. People in Massachusetts' more rural western half have had to resort to a game of Internet hide and seek -- searching out wireless hotspots, with laptops plugged into car lighters
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]]> The survey of 3,500 young people between 15- and 29-years old in the United States, the Netherlands and Finland found that young people get their news and information from a wide variety of sources, but that television continues to be their preferred medi
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]]> This is not about ending abortion — it’s about whether women are first-class citizens, deserving of full human rights. Abortion exists. It has always existed, and it probably will always exist.
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]]> He noticed that Scottie McC's book sure came close to saying Dick Cheney and George Bush were personally involved in the outing of Valerie Wilson.
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]]> He can go to the well of the Senate and demand that the party he now leads not authorize new powers to spy on Americans and immunize corporations who broke the law with their illegal spying in the first place.
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]]> The Senate voted to debate an important new climate bill on Monday -- the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act -- and John McCain was conspicuously absent. Not that this is anything new for McCain -- in the past he's repeatedly missed votes on key climat
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]]> McCain appeared in front of a green board with the message "A Leader We Can Believe In" scrawled across it, which blogger Attaturk quipped made him look "like the cottage cheese in a lime jello salad." This was an obvious ploy by McCain to repackage Obama
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]]> Remember that the outgoing commander, Army Gen. Dan McNeill, said that we need a whopping 400,000 troops in Afghanistan to succeed. And all this is happening while GOP nominee John McCain touts the decline May's decline in Iraq violence
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]]> The May 8 letter from U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to George W. Bush received virtually no media coverage, in spite of the fact that it warned the president...
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]]> The Players make their moves with campaign contributions, TV spots and PR campaigns -- the conventional weapons in a media war -- and they are playing their game in Washington for Washington.
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]]> The Second Vermont Republic is seeking to build a separatist movement. But many have been shocked by its ties to racist Southern secessionists.
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]]> A record wave of mergers, acquisitions and significant investment from venture capitalists is raising alarms about the impact these new players will have on a long-term social and political reform agenda.
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]]> from a town hall meeting in Nashville, Tennessee Monday, mixed in with platitudes about gay marriage, we get a nice little comment from this questioner on the sanctity of marriage in McCain's life--or more to the point, sanctimony.
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]]> The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Twenty-seven ill-chosen words, three badly-placed commas, one unrivaled legislative botch-up.
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]]> Vets for Freedom is a swiftboating group attacking Barack Obama, and the McCain campaign is using the exact same attack. There are close ties between the two organizations: have they illegally coordinated their activities?
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]]> It is not a trivial matter. Because that misinformation was created by one of the most bizarre, and still completely unexplained, journalistic events in modern times.
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]]> Foreclosure filings in 10 towns and cities within 10 miles of military facilities, including Norfolk, Virginia, home of the Navy's largest base, rose by an average 217 percent from January through April from a year earlier.
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]]> The official cover-up of football star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman's death by "friendly fire" has led his family on a four-year mission for justice.
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]]> U.S. President George W. Bush's latest speech on Middle East policy, made in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh last week, shows how the gap has grown between what Washington would like and what is happening in the region.
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]]> Now there are signs that this talking point about Obama's "inexperience," particularly on foreign policy, is starting to seep into the mainstream media's coverage of the race, taking on the status of an established fact.
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]]> The IG report details how $135 million was paid to the governments of the United Kingdom, South Korea, Poland, and others contributing troops to Iraq without any mechanism for determining how it was used.
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