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Austin City Council Considers Action on Plastic Grocery Bags


The Austin City Council will consider a resolution this week that could lead to new strategies for reducing waste from plastic bags   read more
Location: Austin, Texas

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Fluorescent Light Bulbs Can Be Costly - Over $2000 if You Break One!


How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labour -- unless you break the bulb. Then yo   read more

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FDA Determines Popular IBS Drug should be pulled off the Market


FDA recommended a voluntary withdrawal of Zelnorm in the US   read more
Location: USA

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A Lesson in Equal Protection


Early in the morning one long ago September, Laura Alvarez was awakened, bundled up, and piled into the family station wagon with her brothers and si   read more

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Women in Government, Merck's Trojan Horse: Part Three in a Series on the Politics and PR of Cervical Cancer


An in-depth look at Merck's push to make HPV vaccinations mandatory for adolescent girls.   read more

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Bush's War on Women Is a War on Science


The veil over the Bush administration's war on women's reproductive health was pulled back recently by the president's own former surgeon general.   read more

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Neocon: Lieberman makes attack on Iran politically easier


On Sunday's Face the Nation, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) recommended an attack on Iran to get their leaders to "play by the rules." On Monday, Fox News asked Neocon William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, about Lieberman's remarks.The neoco   read more

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Bush and Congress Are Heading for Courtroom Clash on 'Executive Privilege'


The fight over the attorney scandal escalated when former White House Counsel Harriet Miers failed to show at a House Judiciary hearing which she had been subpoenaed for to give testimony -- and may be heading for the courts.   read more

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Kurtz: Widely ridiculed op-ed had at least one big fan in White House


Despite being ridiculed for his Washington Post op-ed piece "Why Bush Will Be a Winner", neo-conservative pundit Bill Kristol has at least one big fan left, President George W. Bush. In his column, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, reports t   read more

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