Irradiation urged after E. coli outbreak and recalls
Eric Mueller's death from E. coli linked to undercooked beef prompts calls to irradiate meat. Despite CDC and WHO assurances and SureBeam availability, ConAgra and others resist irradiation, fearing public backlash and consumer myths about radioactivity.
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Eric Mueller
Oceanside
Calif
Raiter Mueller
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
World Health Organization
ConAgra Beef Co
ConAgra
SureBeam Corp
SureBeam
Public Citizen
Wil Williams
Williams
CDC
English vs Spanish bilingual education debate letter
A letter argues against English-only schooling and for bilingual education. It warns that English immersion damages Spanish literacy and parent child relations, increases teen issues and detention, and claims bilingual schooling boosts literacy, parental involvement, and cost efficiency.
Big Blue Crew Begins Practice at Goddard High
Dick Felts, band director at Goddard High School, says the Big Blue Crew has started practice for the upcoming school year. Nancy Richardson and Paula Nunez won two special prizes at the Roswell Public Library summer reading party. Roswell Hobson's Gardens girls softball team raised 1300 dollars to fund attendance at the national tournament in New York.
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Dick Felts
Goddard High School
Big Blue Crew
Nancy Richardson
Paula Nunez
Roswell Public Library
Roswell
Hobson's Gardens
New York
Harvard study finds tax financed care dominates US system
A Health Affairs analysis by Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein argues Americans pay the world's highest taxes to fund health care. It cites 1999 tax financed health expenditures at 59.8 percent of all health spending and notes substantial admin costs that could be saved with national health insurance.
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Health Affairs
Harvard Medical School
Harvard
New Mexico
Green Party
David Bacon
Bacon
United States
Switzerland
Canada
Australia
Health Administration
Steffie Woolhandler
Cambridge Hospital
David Himmelstein
Physicians For
Public-spy plan rejected by U.S. lawmakers
A conservative and civil liberties coalition blocked Bush’s Operation TIPS proposal in the State of the Union era, arguing it would deputize civilians to spy on neighbors. House Homeland Security Chair Dick Armey led the rejection, citing risks of privacy violations and totalitarian surveillance.
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Washington
Bush
House Select Committee On Homeland Security
Dick Armey
Texas
George Orwell
John Ashcroft
Homeland Security
Saddam Hussein
Joe Biden
Condoleezza Rice
Colin Powell
Don Rumsfeld
Iraq Invasion Debate Shifts From War Cost To Iraqi Stability
Discussion centers on potential Iraq invasion and costs. Senators question U S policy and Kuwait’s stance while weighing postwar stability in Iraq and a possible role for Osama bin Laden’s legacy. The piece traces post 9/11 aims from Afghanistan to Iraq and the axis of evil.
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Mideast
Taliban
Afghanistan
Osama
Iraq
Saddam
Iran
North Korea
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