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Jobless rate drops because 525,000 stop searching
January 10, 2014The unemployment rate ended up at 6.7 percent in December, down from 7.9 percent at the end of 2012 and 0.3 percent but only because more than half a million people stopped looking for work altogether,...
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Ape personhood is step in right direction
January 10, 2014Last month, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit in New York seeking the recognition of chimpanzees as legal persons.
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Today in labor history: The Pemberton Mill disaster
January 10, 2014In the worst industrial disaster in Mass. state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapsed on January 10, 1860, trapping 900 workers, most of them recent immigrants, many women and children.
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Amiri Baraka, preeminent poet and activist, dies at age 79
January 10, 2014Amiri Baraka, one of the country's preeminent African American poets, playwrights and activists died Thursday at Newark's Beth Israel Hospital after a brief illness.
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West Virginia chemical spill causes state of emergency
January 10, 2014More than 100,000 homes, businesses and hospitals in nine counties around Charleston, W. Va., are without water due to a chemical leak into the Elk River, which provides water for an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 people.
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