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  • New ID card unifies the Elm City

    New ID card unifies the Elm City

    September 14, 2007

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The big success of the Elm City Residents Card, which has received an overwhelmingly positive response here, has also become a model for other cities. The history of the new ID card...

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  • HIV financing: backwards and deadly

    HIV financing: backwards and deadly

    September 14, 2007

    As Michael Moore puts it, there is a lot “sicko” with our health care system. In many cases, it is with the AIDS epidemic where our system’s most profound injustices and inefficiencies are brought fully into...

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  • Students and teachers back university strike

    Students and teachers back university strike

    September 14, 2007

    MINNEAPOLIS — Members of four locals of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) representing 3,500 clerical, technical and health care workers at the University of Minnesota walked out Sept. 5 over pay...

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  • BP weighed costs of refinery blast

    BP weighed costs of refinery blast

    September 14, 2007

    HOUSTON — In the ongoing litigation against BP following the March 2005 blast at the company’s Texas City oil refinery that killed 15 workers, a lawyer for some of the victims has produced an internal memo...

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  • Back to school program honors Rudy Lozano

    Back to school program honors Rudy Lozano

    September 14, 2007

    CHICAGO — Students and teachers here, during “back to school week” at the Rudy Lozano Leadership Academy, an alternative high school in the Mexican American Pilsen neighborhood, honored the life of Rudy Lozano, Sept. 5. Lozano,...

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