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  • Keeping your hands clean and green

    Keeping your hands clean and green

    March 21, 2008

    EARTH TALK From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: My pediatrician swears by those gel hand sanitizers for lowering the risk of my family getting sick during cold and flu season. But I’ve also...

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  • Obama delivers unprecedented speech on race in America

    Obama delivers unprecedented speech on race in America

    March 20, 2008

    Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Mar. 18 delivered what some are calling an unprecedented and remarkable speech on race and the struggle for unity in the United States. Responding to issues that have been raised sharply...

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  • Obama speaks with empathy and compassion about racism in America

    Obama speaks with empathy and compassion about racism in America

    March 20, 2008 By Norman Markowitz

    I am profoundly impressed by Barack Obama's speech on racism in American politics. It is a speech that Hillary Clinton could not have made about any issue, a speech that John McCain would probably sneer at...

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  • Needed: a new New Deal

    Needed: a new New Deal

    March 19, 2008

    Seventy-six years ago, in the depths of the Great Depression, with jobless workers selling apples on street corners and millions turned out of their homes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt accepted the Democratic presidential nomination calling for a...

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  • Coalition launches drive to oust GOP

    Coalition launches drive to oust GOP

    March 19, 2008

    WASHINGTON — Thousands at the “Take Back America” conference here March 17-19 cheered as speakers called for a concerted get-out-the-vote drive to end 30 years of right-wing Republican dominance and open the way for progressive change....

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