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Time to Quell Excessive Power of Credit Bureaus, Sometimes Ruling Life or Death
During the past several decades in the US, three credit bureaus have become so powerful, they can make or break American lives. They are Equifax, Experian and Trans …
Activists Target “World of Coca-Cola“
Atlanta, Georgia - Activists from the U.S. and Colombia are targeting the World of Coca-Cola museum, located near its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, accusing the company of “union busting”, …
Give Thanks to Kathleen Sebelius for Saving 47,000 Women
Cost-benefit analysis can kill. The failure to distinguish statistics from arithmetic can kill. In the current debate over mammograms, the number of women projected to be at risk of …
Obama’s Plans to Increase Afghanistan Troop Levels Would Leave US With No Reserve
President Barack Obama intends to announce next week that he will deploy tens of thousands of additional US troops to Afghanistan, according to numerous published reports citing unnamed administration …
Rebecca Solnit | Learning How to Count to 350
Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures …
Census Worker in Kentucky Killed Self, Officials Conclude
A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look like a homicide, authorities have concluded. …
Census Worker in Kentucky Killed Self, Officials Conclude (2)
A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look like a homicide, authorities have concluded. …
Guattari’s Relevance
“Les Années d'hiver,” [“Winter Years”] a volume of articles published between the end of the 1970s and the end of the 1980s, constitutes an interesting entrée into Félix Guattari's …
Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching You at the Airport This Thanksgiving
Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces. …
The Lonely Soldier
How one girl from East L.A. decided to join the military. The following is an excerpt from “The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq” published …