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News in Brief: GOP Cuts to Food Assistance Equal One Day of Bush Tax Cuts, and More
GOP Cuts to Food Assistance Equal One Day of Bush Tax Cuts
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Unrest Pushes Yemen to Brink of Humanitarian Disaster
Sanaa, Yemen - Even before demonstrators began demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh five months ago, Yemen's future looked bleak. A third of its people …
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America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm
(Photo: Gilson Geoffrey / Flickr) Laugh me off as the idealistic son of a physician (which I am), but I still thought the doctor's ethos of "first …
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FCC Report Finds Local Journalism in Severe Decline
(Photo: Andrew Whitacre / Flickr) Local journalism has not been able to keep up with a changing media landscape, leading to a significant drop in quality in-depth …
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Arizona Wildfire Threatens Electrical Grid
Pinetop, Arizona - The gusty winds that have been fueling a vast wildfire in eastern Arizona slowed somewhat on Thursday, allowing firefighters to make some headway against the blaze, …
AIDS Activists Rally at UN: “We Are Asking World Leaders to Live Up to Their Promise”
The 2011 U.N. High-Level meeting on AIDS kicked off on June 8 in New York, with more than 30 world leaders attending to discuss the progress and future of …
Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: “Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power” (2)
How Peer Pressure Creates Social Change
People are rarely swayed by information alone. If they were, the cigarette industry would have collapsed when the first Surgeon General's report on smoking came out in 1964, and …
The Global Energy Crisis Deepens: Three Energy Developments That Are Changing Your Life
Energy prospects are growing dimmer.
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