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Oklahoma Earthquakes and the Wages of Fracking
When towns to the east of Oklahoma City jiggled over the weekend with two of the state’s strongest-ever earthquakes, some people asked an obvious question: Does the recent expansion …
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Insurance Mandate May Be Health Bill’s Undoing
Washington - As Barack Obama battled Hillary Rodham Clinton over health care during the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008, he was adamant about one thing: Americans, he insisted, should …
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Karl Rove Flips Out at Protesters: “Who Gave You the Right to Occupy America?“
Last night, former Bush official Karl Rove appeared at Johns Hopkins University to speak as a part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. Rove soon discovered that he …
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House GOP Classifies Pizza as a Vegetable
Earlier this year, the USDA made an attempt to bolster the nutrition guidelines for the federal school lunch program. Under the new guidelines, for instance, school lunches would be …
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Half of Vets Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan Need Medical Attention
(Photo: RunItsTheFuz / Flickr) More than half of America's former warriors are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with medical and mental problems that need treatment, according …
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Berkeley Activist Hit by Police Explains How Several UC Regents Profit from Higher Levels of Student Debt
Earlier today, OccupyCal protesters at the University of California Berkeley staged a mass “teach-in” and protest to stand in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, and to rebuke …
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A Rising Sea Threatens Pacific Islands
New York - As world leaders gear up to spend the coming weeks in South Africa haggling over economically bearable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is already …
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Nicaragua’s Top Cop, Who Once Wanted to be a Nun, Fends Off Drug Gangs
Managua, Nicaragua - Even as drug gangs are taking control of wide swaths of other Central American countries, a gentle and unassuming 60-year-old grandmother appears to have held them …
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Obama’s Positive Flip and Romney’s Negative Flop
Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs. But President Obama’s announcement last week that he would postpone a decision …
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Many Americans Left Behind in the Quest for Cleaner Air
For all of her 62 years, Lois Dorsey has lived five blocks from a mass of petrochemical plants in Baton Rouge. She worries about the health of people in …