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Texas rejects privatized toll roads
July 10, 2009How are the global economic crisis, water in Bolivia, oil in Iraq, and the fast lane on Highway 635 in North Dallas related? And what do they have to do with the airport in Tegucigalpa? They’re...
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Obama not ruling out second stimulus
July 10, 2009Shortly after Robert Nabors, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, said yesterday that “no one in the administration is talking about a second stimulus at this point,” the administration signaled that the president...
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Transport workers in Japan required to take daily smile scans
July 9, 2009In an effort to improve “customer relations” a Japanese transportation company is forcing over 500 employees to take a daily smile test measuring the degree and brightness of worker smiles. According to the Mainichi Daily News,...
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Call-in day presses Congress to pass public option
July 9, 2009The grassroots health care movement mobilized thousands of phone calls to Capitol Hill July 8, demanding enactment of health care reform with a strong public option that goes into effect immediately with no delaying “trigger.” The...
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Health care drive in high gear
July 9, 2009Major hospital associations, pledging to save more than $150 billion over 10 years, were the latest big industry group to jump aboard what has become the Health Care Express. Meeting with Vice President Biden today, they...
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