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Drug-resistant infections lurk in meat we eat - Infectious diseases- msnbc.comRuss Kremer, shown with one of his free-roaming pigs on his farm in Frankenstein, Mo., was gored by the tusk of a boar and got a strep infection that didn't heal even after two months of multiple antibiotics. The answer was flowing in the veins of the boar. The animal had been fed low doses of ...
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Career Watch: A professor challenges the conventional wisdom on offshoringAs a serious researcher of the outsourcing phenomenon, you have taken to warning that outsourcing has grave implications for the well-being of the nation. Could you elaborate? Standard economic theory tells us that offshoring could be good or it could be bad for the American economy and standard ...
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U.S. moves to strengthen H-1B enforcementU.S. immigration officials are taking H-1B enforcement from the desk to the field with a plan to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of companies hiring foreign workers during the government's current fiscal year. That would mark a nearly fivefold increase in inspections over the previous year, ...
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Furniture Work Shifts From N.C. To South China : NPRBill Curtis watched his job slip away piece by piece. He spent his adult life cutting cloth for sofas at Broyhill Furniture in Lenoir, a town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Over time, Curtis noticed more cloth arriving at his factory from overseas. Then, ...
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WTO Says China Unfairly Restricting U.S. Music, Films : NPRA Lebanese man who hosted a popular TV show where he gave callers advice and sometimes predicted the future was sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia last month. His charge? Sorcery. Ali Hussain Sibat's popular call-in show was broadcast on a satellite TV channel in Arabic around the ...
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Obama's Indecent Interval | Foreign Policy"In his speech, the president offered three reasons why the two conflicts are different. And all are dead wrong"
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Robert J. Elisberg: What It Takes to Make a Republican MadRepublicans weren't mad when George Bush and Dick Cheney lied America into a war against a nation that didn't attack us and didn't have any Weapons of Mass Destruction. They weren't mad when George Bush and Dick Cheney pulled troops out of Afghanistan that was harboring the actual terrorists ...
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Bring Back Glass-Steagall?In 1933, amid the depths of the Great Depression, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and Representative Henry Bascom Steagall of Alabama crafted a law to separate commercial and investment banking, the Glass-Steagall Act. In most ways, Glass and Steagall were typical Democrats: ardent ...
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Liberals Are Useless | CommonDreams.orgLiberals are a useless lot. They talk about peace and do nothing to challenge our permanent war economy. They claim to support the working class, and vote for candidates that glibly defend the North American Free Trade Agreement. They insist they believe in welfare, the right to organize, ...
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Supporting the ACLU Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comAs The New York Times reported yesterday, the ACLU this year, largely without warning, lost its single largest source of funding as a result of the financial crisis. The loss of that individual donor, who had been contributing $20 million per year, was a major blow to the organization, ...
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