health
Congresswomen defend birth control for all
February 9, 2012Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and three other congresswomen attended a special news conference, reacting to Republican Speaker John Boehner's harsh attack on the Obama administration's birth control policy.
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Thai house raid reveals ongoing attacks on wildlife
February 7, 2012Thailand's developed infrastructure, in combination with substandard law enforcement, typically makes for almost effortless smuggling.
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Birth control is not attack on religion
February 7, 2012The Obama administration made the right move when it mandated that all employers be required to offer free family planning services to women through their insurance plans.
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Dickens “more relevant than ever” in Britain
February 7, 2012On the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth, his biographer Claire Tomalin warned that the great novelist's depiction of injustice in society was still "amazingly relevant."
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Bayer’s ill-gotten factory farming profits
February 6, 2012There are potentially lethal strains of bacteria, traced to antibiotics produced by pharmaceutical corporation Bayer, present in pork, beef, and poultry
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