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Hollywood Reds painted the town
November 7, 2002Book ReviewRadical Hollywood – The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies! by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner, New Press, 2002, 460 pp In recent years an increasing number of books have come out addressing the Communist...
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Global warming and the West Nile virus
November 7, 2002Drought and high temperatures don’t just threaten our water supplies and crops. They may help to spread disease. The recent outbreaks of West Nile virus across the United States in the midst of the past summer’s...
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Rehabilitating our prisons
November 7, 2002In most aspects of our lives we believe in rehabilitation: all people are capable of improvement. But in our nation’s prison system, generally, attempts at rehabilitation are only made in two major classes of offenders: drug...
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Coming soon medieval medicine for women
November 7, 2002When George W. Bush started pushing his “faith-based” initiatives for the federal government during his election campaign, most folks assumed he meant allowing churches to join traditional charities in providing services to the poor. This made...
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Disaster in the farm belt natural and political
November 7, 2002Folks in rural America have been hit hard by two very different kinds of slow-moving disasters over the last two years.
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