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World notes: Feb. 16, 2008
February 15, 2008Iraq: Food shortages loom Iraq’s government recently announced that a 12-year-old food rationing system set up in response to the U.S.-led embargo against the Saddam Hussein regime will end by next June. UN officials had praised...
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Workers die in mushroom clouds
February 15, 2008Bush’s OSHA looks the other way For the second time in two months, America has witnessed a catastrophic industrial explosion involving multiple fatalities. On Dec. 19, 2007, the small T2 Laboratories in Jacksonville, Fla., detonated in...
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McCain to seniors, vets: tough luck
February 15, 2008One more unemployment check to a worker without a job might keep him or her in an apartment or a house. A $400 rebate check to a senior citizen or a disabled veteran might mean a...
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Food shortages threaten Venezuelas socialist project
February 13, 2008Venezuela’s government has moved into high gear as it attempts to shore up food availability. Shortages have mounted even though food production has increased over the past three years and food purchases are subsidized through 14,000...
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U.S. backs Bolivian separatists
February 13, 2008“My immediate thought was ‘Oh my God! Somebody from the U.S. Embassy just asked me to basically spy for the U.S. Embassy.’” John van Schaick, a Fulbright scholar recently arrived in Bolivia, was reacting to diplomat...
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