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Beware: Astroturfing harmful to democracy
August 5, 2009Mob rule sweeps America, Big Insurance hires storm troopers Athletes complain about it. Astroturf causes injuries. And now the fake grass spread on many a field across the country has a new meaning. “Astroturfing” and “Astroturf...
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University head resigns in enrollment scandal
August 5, 2009Niranjan Shah, chairman of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, resigned Aug. 3, amid an investigation into the use of political clout in admitting certain students into the state’s most selective public university, located in...
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Pneumonic plague outbreak: Town of 10,000 sealed
August 5, 2009A town of 10,000 people in the northwestern province of Qinghai has been sealed off after three men died of pneumonic plague and nine others were affected, health authorities said. The latest victim was a man...
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Minimum wage hike still leaves workers short
August 5, 2009ST. PAUL - (Workday Minnesota) On July 24, the federal minimum wage rose from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour, an increase of 70 cents or just over 10 percent. For full-time minimum wage workers, the raise...
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Philadelphia town hall meeting supports universal health care
August 5, 2009PHILADELPHIA—The setting was the National Constitution Center on a Sunday afternoon. Some 500 people crowded in to hear HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius and PA Senator Arlen Specter (D PA) answer their questions about changing our country’s...
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