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The canaries in the mineshaft
October 31, 2003Opinion This summer’s heat wave in Europe left more than 11,000 people dead in France alone. Hospitals and morgues were overwhelmed. Most of the victims were elderly. Most lived in isolation from family and community. Most...
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Medicare battle coming up
October 31, 2003Opinion Adecisive battle over the future of Medicare will begin soon, when the House-Senate conference committee charged with working out the differences between the Senate and House bills on Medicare sends its report to both houses...
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Letters
October 31, 2003‘Freedom’ to destroy? “1984” here we come again! Welcome to the library of the future: the library with no past. Also, check out the new “Department of Double Standards.” This from the Ananova news web site:...
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Editorials
October 31, 2003Bush, LBJ and Nixon Despite retooled White House public relations efforts to sell the disastrous Iraq war and occupation, George W. Bush is looking more and more like the proverbial used-car salesman who covers up a...
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History-makers reflect on Salt of the Earth: Even more relevant now
October 31, 2003Anita and Lorenzo Torrez were a young married couple thrown into the midst of the Empire Zinc strike in Hanover, N.M., in 1950. They were radicalized in the course of the strike and became members of...
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