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Cheerios and cholesterol — don’t believe the hype, FDA warns
May 13, 2009If you are eating Cheerios because you believe that it will dramatically lower your cholesterol, then forget about it.
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Good election news for labor in Texas
May 13, 2009Reports from the three large Texas cities which held local elections May 9 are good news for labor. The Dallas AFL-CIO endorsed 6 candidates for City Council. Five of them won outright and the sixth goes...
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Hartmarx workers vote to sit in if Wells Fargo closes their factory
May 13, 2009DES PLAINES, Ill. — Hundreds of union workers packed a lunchroom at the Hart Schaffner & Marx manufacturing plant here May 11 and voted unanimously to stage a sit-in at their factory if a new owner...
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US may have decade-long recesssion
May 13, 2009Washington, May 12 (Prensa Latina) The US Nobel laureate in Economy Paul Krugman said his country could confront a decade of zero growth if more aggressive incentive measures are not employed informed Economy Nobel laureate, Paul...
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Thousands join in candlelight vigils across California
May 13, 2009Original source: More than a thousand California workers, interfaith leaders, community allies and elected officials kicked the California campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act into overdrive in recent days by participating in statewide overnight...
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