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Racial discrimination leads to increased deaths of black women from breast cancer
March 27, 2014Although breast cancer survival rates increased overall between 1990 and 2010, white women benefited far more than did black women.
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Exxon Mobil deal with Ukraine factors in Russia’s Crimea policy
March 26, 2014The awarding of rights to develop a major natural gas find in the Black Sea may have strongly predisposed Russia to support the referendum which resulted in the reunion of Crimea with Russia.
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New Mexican miners commemorate “Salt of the Earth”
March 26, 2014"Where is Anita Torrez?" growled the sheriff's deputy at the young pregnant woman sitting at a table stuffing envelopes inside the union hall's doorway.
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Burlington community backs bus drivers
March 26, 2014As public transit ridership continues to reach ever higher user levels, CCTA has opted to cripple a community by refusing to bargain in good faith with its bus route drivers.
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Today in women’s history: Civil rights leader and suffragist Ida B. Wells died
March 25, 2014Wells was an outstanding civil rights activist and journalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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