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Extreme weather to increase with global warming
July 1, 2008As John McCain campaigns on a pledge of increasing greenhouse gas emissions by launching new offshore oil drilling while at the same time refusing to make caps mandatory on emissions by big polluters, new government data...
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Whats on
July 1, 2008Berkeley, Calif. July 4, Fri., 1–5 p.m. Annual PWW barbeque. Enjoy an afternoon of good food, good music & shopping at a unique flea market. Speaker: Shahram Agahmir, a producer of Voices of the Middle East...
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AFL-CIO officially endorses Obama
July 1, 2008The AFL-CIO officially endorsed Barack Obama for president on June 26. In the statement issued with the endorsement, the General Board declared that Obama “secured the nomination of his party in a campaign that has energized...
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Candidates who value families will win in November
July 1, 2008Workers’ Correspondence The candidates who demonstrate to voters that they value families will win in the November elections. That’s quite a reversal from the 1980s, when the conservative agenda began to be packaged as “family values.”...
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Contradictory China
July 1, 2008Almost everything you’ve heard about China is true — at least, that’s my impression from a short week-and-a-half visit to Beijing at the end of May. The scale of everything in China is hard for anyone...
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