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Cubas wonder of the modern world: Latin American school of medicine
October 19, 2007HAVANA — “Best decision I ever made,” said medical student Cori Marshall of Chicago characterizing her first year at Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (LASM). The school graduated its third class of new doctors on...
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RNs strike over patient care
October 19, 2007BERKELEY, Calif. — Nearly 5,000 registered nurses at 15 northern California hospitals walked the picket line Oct. 10-11 in the largest strike of RNs in the state in a decade. Most struck hospitals belong to the...
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Up to a third of U.S. jobs are low-wage, researcher says
October 19, 2007Fighting poverty is ‘moral’ issue> WASHINGTON (PAI) — “One-fourth to one-third” of all U.S. jobs “are low-wage jobs” whose workers need not just a raise, but a support system to help lift them out of poverty,...
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Save home hotline launched
October 19, 2007CLEVELAND — More help is now available to union members caught in the mounting home mortgage crisis, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said at a press conference here Oct. 15. Sweeney unveiled a free, confidential 24-hour Save...
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Colombian scores second hung jury
October 19, 2007The most recent trial in Washington, D.C., of Ricardo Palmera, a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), ended in a hung jury on Oct. 4. Palmera, 57, was extradited to the U.S. in...
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