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A new movement sweeps the globe

February 28, 2003 By Susan Webb

Many of us sensed that there was something new on Feb. 15, when millions around the globe marched against the U.S. government’s drive to war on Iraq.

Epidemics and cutbacks grip NYC

February 28, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Community health epidemics are now facing almost every big city in the country and some rural areas also.

Real estate market explosion gone bust

February 28, 2003

Open up the classified section in your local newspaper and you, unlike the most esteemed economic minds in the country, might notice two things. Number one, though I will not dwell on it here, is that...

International notes

February 28, 2003

S. Africa: March to U.S. Embassy Some 4,000 people representing 60 organizations – including the governing African National Congress, the Communist Party of South Africa and the Congress of South African Trade Unions – brought a...

U.S.-Philippine troop deal unravels

February 28, 2003

Plans the Pentagon announced last week to send 3,000 troops to the Philippines to help in efforts to eradicate the Abu Sayyaf group of Islamic militants are facing a sharp challenge this week as critics point...