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The Bronx, New York: Quality Job, Quality Care
by Eric LaursenAug 31, 2006
- Cooperative Home Care Associates offers home health care services with motivated employee owners and a cooperative that is growing.
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Making Life Possible
by Somnath Baidya RoyAug 31, 2006
- A clinic in Bhopal serves survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide chemical explosion.
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The Page That Counts
by Daina SaibAug 30, 2006
- Percentage of consumers polled who say they would pay more for books or magazines printed on recycled paper: 80 ...
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Building Protective Walls
by Lisa Gale GarriguesAug 29, 2006
- Lisa Gale Garrigues offers some rants against those tempted to cross borders.
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Alternative Medicine Demands Shared Decision
Making
by Pamela O'Malley ChangAug 29, 2006
- Commentary on the role of Alternative Medicine in health care decisions by a practitioner of Chinese medicine.
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Fighting the Cancer, Healing the Soul
by Pamela O'Malley ChangAug 29, 2006
- The Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic provides all-around care including alternative treatments for low-income women diagnosed with cancer.
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Programming Our Vocabulary
by Frances Moore LappeAug 25, 2006
- The right continues to define the terms of debate. It is time for progressives to establish terms of their own.
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Signs of Life
Aug 23, 2006
- A compilation of stories that show activism in a diversity of issues.
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Post-Katrina: What It Means to be Displaced
by Ajamu Baraka, Tonya M. WilliamsAug 23, 2006
- The Executive Director and a senior fellow at the U.S. Human Rights Network discuss the obligation of government to displaced survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
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Principles of Real Solutions
by Sarah van GelderAug 22, 2006
- What is required for America to join most of the industrialized world in universal access to health care?
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Health Care Options at a Glance
by Sarah van Gelder, Doug PibelAug 22, 2006
- The various health care options used around the world are detailed based on costs, coverage, who pays and other factors.
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Getting Clean in Maine
by Nancy WatzmanAug 21, 2006
- Clean Elections -- in other words public funding of elections -- helped make the passage of the Dirigo health care law possible in Maine.
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Where FEMA feared to Tread
by Tim ShorrockAug 09, 2006
- When Katrina hit New Orleans, medics on bicycles toured the city bringing relief where other agencies failed to show.
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Recipe for a Cooked Election
by Greg PalastAug 09, 2006
- In the 2004 election, more than 3 million ballots were never counted. Palast explains where they went, but also provides an example of hopeful voting reform in New Mexico.
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Just the Facts
by Lilja OttoAug 09, 2006
- The costs of health care and prescriptions in the U.S. are graphically compared against the rest of the world. Why do U.S. drugs cost more?