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As economic crisis worsens hunger stalks the land
December 5, 2008A report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals that hunger skyrocketed across America in 2007 after the nation plunged into its current deep recession in the first month of that year. An additional 2 million...
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The economic crisis: Understanding causes and solutions
December 5, 2008What will be impact of the Wall Street bankruptcies, bailouts and blunders on working people in this country and worldwide? What's the solution to the crisis? Perhaps only time will tell the full extent of the...
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Folk music, civil rights legend Odetta dies at 77
December 4, 2008NEW YORK (AP) — Odetta's monumental voice rang out in August 1963 when she sang 'I'm on My Way' at the historic March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech....
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New policy needed after Mumbai terror
December 4, 2008The attacks on Mumbai, India, stunned and outraged the world last week. It’s being called India’s 9/11. That may be an accurate name for the shock and anger that people felt as bleeding bodies, fires and...
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World Notes
December 4, 2008UN: Call for action on women’s rights Observing the United Nations-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Nov. 25, the UN Development Fund for Women identified the fact that one-third of all women...
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