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  • Mercury contaminates fish nationwide, study shows

    Mercury contaminates fish nationwide, study shows

    August 21, 2009 By Susan Webb

    Scientists have found mercury contamination in every fish sampled in 291 streams across the country, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released yesterday.

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  • Health care public option debate  cut the baloney

    Health care public option debate cut the baloney

    August 21, 2009

    OPINION A lot has been written about the health care public option over the past few days. While some commentaries discuss the honest concerns many Americans have, others claim the would-be government-run plan is dead in...

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  • British citizen speaks out about health care

    British citizen speaks out about health care

    August 21, 2009

    OPINION I am English (and a dual citizen of England and the United States) and I am increasingly frustrated with the misinformation reported regarding socialized medicine. Several opponents of health care reform--including major conservative radio and...

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  • Doris Brin Walker, defender of civil rights, free speech, dies at 90

    Doris Brin Walker, defender of civil rights, free speech, dies at 90

    August 21, 2009

    SAN FRANCISCO ― Doris Brin Walker, an attorney famous for her brilliant and tenacious defense of political activists including Angela Davis ― and earlier, Smith Act and other McCarthy-era political defendants ― died Aug. 13 following...

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  • Truth-telling time

    Truth-telling time

    August 21, 2009

    This is truth-telling time in the fight for health care. The voices of the uninsured and underinsured, of those who have insurance but live in fear of losing it, must be heard. The stakes could not...

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