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U.S. residents less healthy than Canadians
June 9, 2006A study by Harvard Medical School researchers in the July 2006 issue of the American Journal of Public Health finds that U.S. residents are less healthy than Canadians. Moreover, despite spending nearly twice as much per...
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CBTU calls for re-uniting labor
June 9, 2006ORLANDO, Fla. (PAI) — Re-uniting the U.S. labor movement after last year’s AFL-CIO-Change to Win split is critical to “ending the madness” of the GOP government of George W. Bush, declared Coalition of Black Trade Unionists...
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A communist view: Where is the leverage for U.S. workers in the fight with Delphi and GM?
June 9, 2006Labor’s potential strength is mighty, greater than any other social force on earth, because of what workers produce worldwide and because labor represents the interests of the overwhelming majority of humanity. The current attacks on labor...
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WORLDNOTES
June 9, 2006Worldwide: Tropical forests at risk The Japan-based International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) reported May 25 that 95 percent of the world’s tropical forests either are not managed sustainably or are unprotected. “It is clear … that...
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UN spotlights continuing scourge of AIDS
June 9, 2006UNITED NATIONS — Twenty-five years after AIDS was first detected, in Los Angeles, and five years after the UN General Assembly adopted the “Declaration on Commitment on HIV/AIDS,” heads of state, ambassadors, representatives of nongovernmental organizations...
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