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Ohio, Texas could decide Dem primary race
February 15, 2008Unexpectedly, voters in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania could be the decision-makers in the tight Democratic presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Landslide victories by Obama in a series of caucuses and primaries in the...
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Writers win some after 14-week strike
February 15, 2008Against enormous odds and with television and film writers united behind them, leaders of the Writers Guild of America have negotiated a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that amounts to a...
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World notes: Feb. 16, 2008
February 15, 2008Iraq: Food shortages loom Iraq’s government recently announced that a 12-year-old food rationing system set up in response to the U.S.-led embargo against the Saddam Hussein regime will end by next June. UN officials had praised...
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Workers die in mushroom clouds
February 15, 2008Bush’s OSHA looks the other way For the second time in two months, America has witnessed a catastrophic industrial explosion involving multiple fatalities. On Dec. 19, 2007, the small T2 Laboratories in Jacksonville, Fla., detonated in...
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McCain to seniors, vets: tough luck
February 15, 2008One more unemployment check to a worker without a job might keep him or her in an apartment or a house. A $400 rebate check to a senior citizen or a disabled veteran might mean a...
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