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News in Brief: Union Carbide Officials Sentenced to Prison in Bhupol and More
A court in Bhupol, India sentenced seven Union Carbide officials to two years in prison for criminal negligence surrounding a 1984 pesticide plant leak that killed 3,500 people instantly …
Retired General: “We Have to Accept the Fact That We Did Torture People” (Video)
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Airlines Battle Workplace Democracy
If you ever want to spook a smug, stuffed-shirt corporate CEO — I mean spook him so bad that he jumps clear out of his Guccis and screams louder …
Rhythm Method Madness
Seventeen percent of sexually active teenage girls said they used the rhythm method as a means of birth control in 2008, up from just 11% in 2002, according to …
Oil Companies Dishonor Our Troops and Undermine Our Security
Since 2003, more than 4,300 American troops and perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have become casualties of a war full of contradictions. One of the most fundamental of …
Erasing Arizona: Dark-Skinned Mural Faces “Lightened” to Appease Bigots; Public Outcry Ensues
It is difficult to fully explain the impacts of Arizona's burgeoning and overt anti-immigrant climate these days. To outsiders, it must seem like either the inmates have finally taken …
Caravan Risks Another Attack to Break Blockade in Oaxaca
A caravan carrying food and supplies headed to the autonomous town of San Juan Copala in the Mexican state of Oaxaca yesterday determined to break a paramilitary blockade just …
Ruth Marcus | Cyberspace Dunderheads
Washington - I've come down with a bad case of the shallows. That's technology writer Nicholas Carr's term — and the title of his …
Connie Schultz | It Can Happen to Anyone
Millbury, Ohio - The cardboard boxes resting on stairs of red carpeting at the entrance of St. Peter United Church of Christ on Monday morning told the second-saddest story …
Senate Weakens Bid to Tax Wall Street Like Rest of Us
Washington - Senate Democrats Tuesday weakened efforts to end a controversial Wall Street tax break, watering down a bid to raise taxes on managers of hedge funds, private-equity funds, …