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Parents Organize Boycott to End Standardized Testing of Four-Year-Olds
New York School believed to be first to reject testing in grades K-2, principal and 90 percent of parents support boycott and hope it helps spark nationwide movement.
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Home Heating Costs Expected to Rise This Winter Despite Gas Fracking Boom
The United States is poised to boost natural gas exports while the most vulnerable Americans struggle to pay their heating bills and federal financial assistance dwindles.
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Why Snowden’s Passport Matters
Revocation of Snowden's U.S. passport has been a crucial weapon to prevent him from crossing an international border for any reason other than to come home to prison in …
$40 Million Allocated for Drone Victims Never Reaches Them
It appears that none of the $40 million collected for drone strike victims and their families has actually reached them.
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Politicians’ Extortion Racket?
Some politicians are involved in a type of “legal extortion” to get their hands on cash, with terms like the “tollbooth” and “milker bills” describing some of these practices.
Radioactive Rainwater Overwhelms Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Heavy rains have overwhelmed containment tankers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Corporations Reap Billions From Mass Incarceration
A new campaign exposes the companies that profit off prisoners.
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Why the Climate Movement Should Have No “Keystone“
We must call for what we really need - an end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction.
Zoos Get Pandas, China Gets Uranium: Is This a Fair Trade?
Chinau2019s central government seems to be using its monopoly on pandas as a valuable bargaining chip to gain resources including uranium and access to renewable energy technology.
Climate Change: First They Came For…
First they came for the Arctic sea ice, and I did not speak out—even though its volume is two thirds what it was thirty years ago.