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The Unfair $23 Billion Tobacco Verdict: Time For Smokers to Stop Playing Dumb
First Post, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 23, 2014
The charades of tobacco giants does not mean the rest of us are just unwitting lambs who have been led to the slaughter.
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The Unfair $23 Billion Tobacco Verdict: Time For Smoker…
The Unfair $23 Billion Tobacco Verdict: Time For Smokers to Stop Playing Du…
First Post, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 23, 2014
The charades of tobacco giants does not mean the rest of us are just unwitting lambs who have been led to the slaughter.
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Child Refugees: The Consequences of the 2009 Coup in Ho…
Child Refugees: The Consequences of the 2009 Coup in Honduras
LatinoRebels.com, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 22, 2014
The U.S. involvement in the recent coup in Honduras set the stage for what is happening today.
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Standing Together For the Children of Central America -…
Standing Together For the Children of Central America -- and Chicago
The Root, Commentary, Posted: Jul 22, 2014
Youths in Central America—and Chicago—are all survivors of violence rooted in failed policies like the war on drugs.
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High Rents and Low Wages Trap Chinese Immigrants in SRO…
High Rents and Low Wages Trap Chinese Immigrants in SROs
KALW, News Feature, Posted: Jul 20, 2014
Soaring rents and low wages in San Francisco block Chinese immigrants from moving out of single-room housing units.
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How To Start Getting Fit For Life
How To Start Getting Fit For Life
Senior News/New America Media , News Feature, Posted: Jul 19, 2014
Feeling sluggish, able to “pinch” your age by the inch? Dawn Williams tells how to get started revitalizing your health and renewing your energy at 50+.
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High Rents Push NYC's Chinatown Merchants to Think Crea…
High Rents Push NYC's Chinatown Merchants to Think Creatively
Sing Tao Daily/New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 18, 2014
To fight against soaring rents, the Chinatown Business Improvement District plans to buy up vacant spaces and turn itself into a landlord.
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California Agriculture Faces Greatest Water Loss Ever S…
California Agriculture Faces Greatest Water Loss Ever Seen
UC Newsroom, News Report, Posted: Jul 17, 2014
A new report from UC Davis shows California agriculture may come up dry in the future if it continues to treat groundwater reserves like an unlimited savings ac…
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Youth Depression Thrives on Silence - California Data…
Youth Depression Thrives on Silence - California Data Show Shocking Impact…
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 17, 2014
In 2012, mental diseases and disorders accounted for the largest share of hospital admissions among children under 18 in California.
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For New Grads, Depression After the Diploma
For New Grads, Depression After the Diploma
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Jul 16, 2014
Many young people experience post-college depression. For most, the period marks the first time outside of a school setting, causing an identity crisis of sor…
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San Francisco Considers Resolution to Aid Migrant Child…
San Francisco Considers Resolution to Aid Migrant Children
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 16, 2014
The city's Board of Supervisors will vote on a proposed resolution that gives migrant children access to city housing and social services as they await immigrat…
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Underground Networks Spring Up to Help Migrant Kids in…
Underground Networks Spring Up to Help Migrant Kids in U.S.
El Universal, News Report, Posted: Jul 15, 2014
Mexico’s El Universal newspaper reports that an underground network is emerging to help migrant kids in the United States.
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The Caribbean: A Clean Energy Revolution on the Front L…
The Caribbean: A Clean Energy Revolution on the Front Lines of Climate Chan…
Inter Press Service, Commentary, Posted: Jul 15, 2014
It is time to have a Marshall Plan for clean energy— not to rebuild war-torn nations, but to help protect our abused climate system from further damage.
Detroit Water Department Places 15-Day Moratorium on Shutoffs
The Michigan Citizen, News Report, Posted: Jul 23, 2014
The Detroit water department announced it will suspend its controversial water shutoffs.
Yes, Immigrant Kids Are Fleeing Violence, but So Are Kids in Chicago
The Root, Commentary, Posted: Jul 22, 2014
Over the 4th of July weekend, 82 people were shot in Chicago. But the story got lost in media coverage of the border crisis.
Researchers Address 'Lost in Translation' Issues With Chinese Medicine
UC Newsroom, News Report, Posted: Jul 19, 2014
Researchers at UCLA's Center for East–West Medicine have published a document that explores issues involved in Chinese medical translat…
Graphic Novelist Breaks Boundaries with Multimedia Approach
Asian Fortune, Question & Answer, Posted: Jul 18, 2014
Graphic novelist Nguyen Khoi Nguyen doesn’t limit himself to paper and pen – he uses music and animation as well.
Study: Pets a Prescription for Health, Happiness Among Elders
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 16, 2014
UCLA researchers studying "best practices" for how to deliver holistic health care to seniors found pets were a big source of social su…
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High Rents and Low Wages Trap Chinese Immigrants in SROs
KALW, News Feature, Posted: Jul 20, 2014
How To Start Getting Fit For Life
Senior News/New America Media , News Feature, Posted: Jul 19, 2014
Study: Pets a Prescription for Health, Happiness Among Elders
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jul 16, 2014
Immigration
Border Crisis: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Jul 23, 2014
Child Refugees: The Consequences of the 2009 Coup in Honduras
LatinoRebels.com, News Analysis, Posted: Jul 22, 2014
Standing Together For the Children of Central America -- and Chicago
The Root, Commentary, Posted: Jul 22, 2014
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New Orleans Losing Cops Faster Than…
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Jose Antonio Vargas Detained by Bor…
Pulitzer prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas—whose “D…
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Palestinian Americans Weigh in On Homeland Crisis
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Women Play Soccer Too
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Homeward Bound: Caring for the Burgeoning Populati…
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US Backing Israeli War of Choice In Gaza
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With World Cup Over, Brazil Faces Its Toughest Opp…
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From the Beast to the Fridge - A Salvadoran Youth&…
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For One Immigrant, Border Crisis Highlights Benefi…
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The Limits of Brazilian Soft Power
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Why We are Suing the Government on Behalf of All C…
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Iraq Fiasco Erases Memory of Vietnam
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No Humanitarianism in $3.7 Billion for Unaccompani…
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San Francisco's Tech Boom Bleeding Chinese Small B…
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As a Jew Living in America, the Past Week Has Chan…
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Booming Black Businesses Fuel Brazil’s New M…
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UC Launches Global Food Initiative
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Indian American Farmers Weathering Record Drought…
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The Disappearance of the Black Coach: African-Amer…
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A Dashing Return of the First Asian American Super…
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Muslim Stars Shining in Fifa World Cup 2014
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Obama’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost
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Independence Day: Immigrants and the Great America…
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Obama’s Quick Fix Won’t Solve the Regi…
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Unaccompanied Children -- A Failure of Compassion
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Supreme Court Used Indian Law to Prevent Birth Con…