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3-31	Industry pressure tones down 'Etopia' broadband measure
3-31	House passes bill to double 911 fee
3-31	W.Va. Senate puts gambling ahead of public
3-31	Mahan stream effort derailed
3-31	Prison may reinforce problems its intended to solve
3-31	The End of Reason
3-31	Senator gives big boost to Byrd; Obamas appeal helps raise $634,000
3-31	National Federal Judge Condemns Intervention in Schiavo Case
3-31	Bush Critics Blocked from Presidential Events
3-31	Report on WMDs faults intel agencies
3-31	'Black holes' in US spy knowledge
3-31	Two Bills Under Consideration in the Texas Legislature will Restrict the Rights of the Public to Participate in Permitting Decisions
3-31	As Massive Houses Prompt Protests, Arlington Proposes Limits
3-31	FLORIDA FWS BIOLOGISTS ORDERED TO APPROVE ALL DEVELOPMENT
3-31	Cesar Chavez: A Great American
3-31	Tiny Hong Kong Falling Foul of Electronic Waste
3-31	Fish Farms Tied in Study to Imperiling Wild Salmon
3-31	EPA Says Children May Be Vulnerable than Adults to Carcinogens
3-30	Local: Tort reform foes hold reorganization captive
3-30	Local: Steam plant to be built at tech park
3-30	Iraqi Parliament Adjourns in Disarray - Delay Possible on Iraq Charter as Talks Falter
3-30	Leaky Pipe Spills Crude, Salt Water onto Tundra
3-30	EU Seeks Advice on Long-Term Effects of GMO Crops
3-30	Dissent on Intelligence Is Critical, Report Says
3-30	Judges Say Overhaul Would Weaken Bankruptcy System
3-29	Local: Proposals seek to streamline PSC permitting
3-29	Powerful Quake Jolts the Seabed Off the West Coast of Indonesia
3-29	Security the Progressive Way
3-29	Brazil's Lula Signs New Law to Legalize GMO Crops
3-29	Panel's Report Assails C.I.A. for Failure on Iraq Weapons
3-29	Coke: The New Nike
3-29	Energy Special: Oil in Troubled Waters
3-29	Drawing the Line on Energy
3-29	White House Turns Up Heat on Social Security; Medicare in More Serious Danger, Warn Critics
3-29	The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture
3-29	Roundup Doesn't Poison Only Weeds
3-29	One in three Americans chronically overworked, research group says
3-29	Green Group Plans New Pollution Suit Against AEP
3-29	Alaska Agency Says BP Failed To Report Spills
3-29	What's Going On?
3-29	Anger Over Poverty Fueled Kyrgyz Uprising
3-28	Local: Delegate controls $8 million in education accounts; Schools chief says hes in the dark over purpose of funds
3-28	Local: Conservation partnership to help protect Greenbrier cave system
3-28	DeLay's Own Tragic Crossroads; Family of the lawmaker involved in the Schiavo case decided in '88 to let his comatose father die
3-28	Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel Criticized
3-28	Panel Ignored Evidence on Detainee - Judge: Man In Gitmo Despite Proof
3-28	Some Creditors Make Illegal Demands on Active-Duty Soldiers
3-28	Singapore Advises Citizens to Stay Indoors from Haze Caused by Indonesian, Malaysian Fires
3-28	Sold down the river
3-28	Yellow River source water dwindles
3-28	Miracle Malpractice
3-28	Past Arguments Don't Square with Current Iran Policy
3-27	Medicaid cuts could be tough on W.Va.
3-27	Local: Experts study effect of moss harvesting
3-27	Local: Nature Conservancy helps protect elaborate cave system under farm
3-27	Business Sees Gain In GOP Takeover; Political Allies Push Corporate Agenda
3-27	New Details on F.B.I. Aid for Saudis After 9/11
3-27	Movement in the Pews Tries to Jolt Ohio
3-27	U.S. Troops Tortured Iraqis in Mosul, Documents Show - Armys Own Documents Acknowledge Evidence That Soldiers Used Torture
3-27	Blair clashes with Cabinet over Wolfowitz nomination
3-27	British Attorney General under pressure over Iraq war advice
3-27	Missing WMD Report
3-27	What Set Loose the Voice of the People
3-27	For Army Recruiters, a Hard Toll From a Hard Sell
3-27	Cracks may force shutdown of UK reactors
3-27	Device lets you out-Fox your TV
3-26	Local: Official questions BPS spill notification
3-26	Local: House OKs $1 million to help Stonewall resort
3-26	Local: Sodas back in Manchins "Healthy Start" bill
3-26	Local: Location for state 4x4 trail system sought
3-26	Ensuring equal protection from refinery flares - BP Texas Plant Had Fire Day Before Blast - Terrorism ruled out in blast, but may take a year to find cause
3-26	Family Wonders if Prozac Prompted School Shootings
3-26	The United States of Jesus - A Jesuit bioethicist believes the religious right is exploiting Terri Schiavo and that there is no moral or legal obligation to keep her alive - DeLay Quietly Steps Out of the Schiavo Spotlight
3-26	The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay
3-26	No Blood On Our Hands
3-26	Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places
3-26	Canada Denies Refugee Status to US Soldier
3-26	Blair Faces Renewed Pressure over Iraq - On the Campaign Trail, Tony Blair Cannot Escape from Iraq
3-26	Pentagon Will Not Try 17 G.I.'s Implicated in Prisoners' Deaths
3-26	Bush Sells F-16s to Pakistan As Reward For Terrorism Fight
3-26	Thousands of Women Sold as Sex Slaves
3-26	It Ain't Broke!
3-26	Trophy Hunting Advocate Named Acting Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
3-26	Venezuela Criticizes Rumsfeld Remarks - Hugo Chvez and Petro Populism
3-26	Unocal Settles Human Rights Lawsuit over Alleged Abuses at Myanmar Pipeline
3-25	Local: Bad-faith bill passes in Senate - Legislature: Nearing the finale - Senate passes Manchins insurance, lawsuit bills - Third-party lawsuits closer to extinction - More Tort Reform Proposals Introduced
3-25	Local: Judge orders insurance data to be released
3-25	Local: Sulfuric acid leak contained at plant
3-25	Gambling Goes Down Home - Indianas addiction to gambling is worsening
3-25	Bush approval slips to 45%, lowest of his presidency - Poll: Even Evangelicals Oppose Bush, Congress on Schiavo
3-25	Native Americans Criticize Bush's Silence; Response to School Shooting Is Contrasted With President's Intervention in Schiavo Case
3-25	E.P.A. Report Finds Lag in Monitoring Attacks
3-25	Ensuring Voting Rights
3-25	Election Commission Urges Finance Rules for Online Politics
3-25	Protests Force Authoritarian Leader to Flee in Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan president flees people power
3-25	Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.: If It's Really A 'World' Bank, Then Let's Look South
3-25	Fraying of a Latin Textile Industry
3-25	Brazil's Bold Move
3-25	Texas City - the home of several petrochemical and refining plants - is no stranger to disaster
3-25	Report reveals shame of UN peacekeepers
3-25	How Much Longer Can the American Economy Live on Credit?
3-24	Local: Bad-faith bill fight goes to House
3-24	14 Die in Blast at BP Oil Refinery in Texas - Shocked residents in a state of disbelief - Town built by refineries learned to live with fear
3-24	Billion people face water shortages, warns UN - China Faces Severe Water Shortages, Mounting Rollution Problems, Report Says
3-24	DeLay, Deny and Demagogue - Still more allegations
3-24	Biotech Crops Invade Latin America - EU Says Unapproved Syngenta GMO Maize Sets No Risk - Administration Kept Mum About Unapproved Modified Corn Sold - The Basics on Genetically Modified Foods
3-24	The Cavernous Divide
3-24	The Schiavo Case and the Fundamentalist Islamization of the Republican Party
3-24	An Indecent Administration Rolls On
3-24	Hyflux Seeking to Quench World's Thirst For Water
3-24	Unmasking the Theocons
3-24	Very Deadly Year for Journalists
3-24	Whose Right to Life? - Life, Death and Cynical Grandstanding
3-24	Study says household dust holds dangerous chemicals
3-24	Lanxess, Addyston residents pursuing emissions solution
3-23	EPA Reverses Key Lead Abatement Rule: Children at Risk
3-23	Why so many prisons?
3-23	Cheney Defends Bush Appointments
3-23	Coalition Forms to Oppose Parts of Antiterrorism Law - Groups Urge Partial Lapse Of Patriot Act - ACLU Joins Conservatives to Restore Freedoms Lost Under Patriot Act - Scholar not a terrorist
3-23	Massive Deficit Alarming Business Owners
3-23	Document: Bin Laden Evaded U.S. Forces
3-23	Army Eases Age Limit For Guard, Reserve
3-23	Concerned citizens flood FCC with demands to stop fake news
3-23	Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene - Plants Fix Genes With Copies From Ancestors
3-23	A Bad Deal on Free Trade
3-23	Damning Verdict on GM Crop -  Syngenta Sold Some Unapproved Biotech Corn in US - UK Conservatives Attack Blair Over Biotech Crops - EU to Push Approving GMOs, Could Come in Few Weeks - Poland to Ban Monsanto GMO Maize Seed
3-23	GU Activists Go Hungry to Help Janitors
3-23	EPA OKs Air Permit for First US Refinery Since 70s
3-23	Battling Insects, Parasites and Politics
3-23	Creating a Logjam in Honduras
3-22	Local: Judge wants agency to justify blacked-out names
3-22	Local: Kessler Fights Third-Party Bad-Faith Ban, Favors Compromise
3-22	Local: Teen view of press rights in survey is frightening
3-22	Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolfowitz
3-22	World Water Day: EU Urged to Stop Privatization
3-22	U.S. Rallies Mark Iraq Anniversary, Reflect Anti-War Groups' Growth, Challenges
3-22	Renewed Golden Rice hype is propaganda for genetic engineering industry - EU States Overruled on GMOs by Own Deadlock - Biggest Study of GMO Finds Impact on Birds, Bees
3-22	Pakistani's Black Market May Offer Secrets to Build Nuclear Weapons
3-22	Women on the Front Lines
3-22	News Held Hostage
3-21	Local: Abortion opponents tactics questioned; Delegates criticize leaflet distribution - Pro-life lobbyists gaining in power
3-21	Media Downplay Historic Day of Protests
3-21	Myths Debunked--Republicans Keep Terry Schiavo Alive because they Are Pro-Life
3-21	George Bush's Leveraged Buyout of Social Security
3-21	Wolfowitz Strives To Quell Criticism - Negroponte's Time In Honduras at Issue; Focus Renewed on Intelligence Pick's Knowledge of Death Squads in 1980s
3-21	Blair manipulated intelligence to justify war, says BBC film
3-21	Guantanamo Bay abuse 'videotaped'
3-21	Nonprofit Groups Question Motive for Federal Actions
3-21	Congo's Desperate 'One-Dollar U.N. Girls;' Shunned Teens, Many Raped by Militiamen, Sell Sex to Peacekeepers
3-21	Top-level study of rainforests' secrets
3-20	Sinking Globalization
3-20	The Intelligence Made Me Do It
3-20	Debate over Social Security Entering a Potentially Critical Phase
3-20	U.S. Misled Allies About Nuclear Export
3-19	Local: Bad-faith lawsuits bill recommended for vote - Third-party lawsuit bill rushed to Senate floor
3-19	Local: Senators to take a look at ethics measure again
3-19	'Preemptive Strikes' Become Policy; National defense now extends beyond U.S. borders to include acts of 'active deterrence'
3-19	Two Years Later, Iraq War Drains Military - The Democracy Lie
3-19	Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
3-19	UN Sees East Congo as Worse Crisis Than Darfur
3-19	Wolfowitz to spread neo-con gospel - Don't deposit Wolfowitz with us, plead World Bank workers
3-19	Nigeria's Oil Killing Fields
3-19	The Darkness Drops Again
3-19	Water Shortages Are Potential Threat to China's Growth, Stability - The real 'China threat'
3-19	Nano Hazards: Exposure to minute particles harms lungs, circulatory system
3-19	The Death of Environmentalism? Mr. Kristof's Kool-Aid
3-19	Activists Held, Blocked from Logging Areas
3-19	Mapping The Oil Motive
3-19	Why Iraq Withdrawal Makes Sense
3-19	Survey: Third of Americans Are Overworked
3-19	Race to the Bottom
3-19	In Life on the Mekong, China's Dams Dominate
3-19	Wal-Mart to Pay U.S. $11 Million in Lawsuit on Illegal Workers - Wal-Mart Escapes Criminal Charges in Case
3-19	Senate Budget Shows Signs of G.O.P. Strain With Bush
3-19	Nevada Senators Ask AG to Investigate Yucca Deception - False Data for Yucca Mountain?
3-19	Pinochet bank report angers Chile
3-19	Buying Big Guns? No Big Deal
3-19	The case for organic produce
3-18	Bush wants to clip the wings that flew him to political success
3-18	Definition of 'fair' depends on who you are - Insurance panel keeps info secret - E-mails show insurance rate negotiations; Im opposed to selling our rights,' senator tells panel - Hearing reveals deep divide over third party issue - Insurers, lawyers in battle over reform
3-18	Groups praise childrens cabinet
3-18	Democratic Senators Denounce Bush Grab for "Dictatorship"
3-18	In Blow to Bush, Senators Reject Cuts to Medicaid
3-18	Questions Are Left by C.I.A. Chief on the Use of Torture - Goss Defends U.S. Interrogation Tactics
3-18	Secret U.S. plans for Iraq's oil
3-18	The Exit Strategy - The Families - The Peace Movement
3-18	Halliburton--Pentagon report disturbing - Ex-Halliburton Worker Indicted for Fraud
3-18	The Ugly American Bank - Europe Wonders if Wolfowitz is Right Man for the Job - A poor choice for the World Bank
3-18	Afghans Delay Legislative Elections - Afghan Crime Wave Breeds Nostalgia for Taliban ; Child Abductions in Kandahar Crystallize Discontent With Governing Ex-Warlords
3-18	Trail of Blood Leads from Colombia to US
3-18	Water Worries Start to Gain Attention - Water Emerges as Key Resource for Sustainable Growth
3-18	Italian troops to stay, after all - Berlusconi accused of climbdown over troop withdrawal
3-18	Un-Volunteering: Troops Improvise to Find Way Out
3-18	Congressman From Ohio Is Chosen for Trade Post
3-18	Pharmaceutical rice in Missouri threatens food supply - Golden Rice is a technical failure standing in way of real solutions for vitamin A deficiency
3-18	Lower-income workers would shoulder national sales tax
3-18	Government Is Criticized on Oversight of Head Start
3-18	Judge Rules Police Violated Protester's Rights During Cheney Visit
3-18	Mexican Ecologist Called New Prisoner of Conscience
3-18	Biodiversity loss worrying experts
3-18	Current farming depends upon oil
3-17	Courts are consumers only protection from industry
3-17	Bad-faith suits total challenged; Up to 31 states allow such cases, trial lawyers say
3-17	House passes Laci bill; Manchin expected to sign
3-17	Vote to kill ethics 'gag order' in House
3-17	Benjamin asked to sit out lending case
3-17	Manchin seeks to restore powers lost by late uncle
3-17	State groups repel pension proposal
3-17	Sen. Byrd inclined to run for re-election - Byrd blasts rule change drive
3-17	CIA's Assurances On Transferred Suspects Doubted; Prisoners Say Countries Break No-Torture Pledges
3-17	Phony news is just propaganda - And Now, the Counterfeit News - A Wink and a Fraud - Bush Defends Offering Video News Releases - Bush Administrations Press Manipulation More Widespread than Previously Thought - CREW SUES DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE FOR DOCUMENTS REGARDING PR CONTRACTS
3-17	Wolfowitz Nod Follows Spread of Conservative Philosophy - Wolfowitz Gets Bush Nomination for World Bank - Bush Taps Hardliner Wolfowitz as New World Bank President
3-17	THE SECRET PINOCHET PORTFOLIO: FORMER DICTATOR'S CORRUPTION SCANDAL BROADENS
3-17	US tries to sink forests plan; British initiative on illegal logging opposed - US aims to jeopardise legal action on illegal logging
3-17	Homeland Security Chief to Shift From 'Sky Is Falling' Approach
3-16	'Bad-faith' lawsuit hearing is Thursday
3-16	Bush is bringing fascism up to date - Is the answer war all of the time? (letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-16	180,000 die from hunger in Darfur
3-16	Race to the Bottom
3-16	No Longer the 'Lone' Superpower--Coming to Terms with China
3-16	Green in Gridlock
3-16	Senate Work May Come to Halt If GOP Bars Judicial Filibusters
3-16	Ex-Chief of WorldCom Is Found Guilty in $11 Billion Fraud
3-16	Joint Ecumenical statement on Bush's 2006 federal budget
3-16	Dramatizing the "death" of environmentalism doesn't help urban people of color, or anyone else - Ken Ward: Response to "Death": Part I - Ken Ward: Response to "Death": Part II
3-16	Top US General Predicts Surge in Iraq Violence - Italy to Withdraw Troops from Iraq
3-16	Army Documents Raise Fresh Concerns of Abuse by Navy SEALs
3-16	Italy Planning to Start Pullout of Iraq Troops
3-16	Lead Dust a Worry as EPA Stalls Remodeling Regulations
3-16	U.S. Report Lists Possibilities for Terrorist Attacks and Likely Toll
3-16	2 Years After Invasion, Poll Data Mixed
3-16	Agent Orange victims' suffering continues
3-16	Fighting the Big Gunns in Tasmania
3-15	Death penalty should not be restored in state
3-15	Manchin seeks to limit bus rides; Governors proposal would affect new routes created by school closings
3-15	Metro government bill advances, 11-2; Committee approves measure aimed at cost-saving flexibility
3-15	Senate move delays action on table games legislation
3-15	Toxins in You
3-15	Political Paralysis
3-15	U.S. May End Up in Dock at UN Human Rights Meet
3-15	Fallujah, Tent City, Awaits Compensation
3-15	Administration Rejects Ruling On PR Videos; GAO Called Tapes Illegal Propaganda
3-15	G.O.P. Rebellion Threatens to Derail Efforts to Adopt Budget
3-15	The $600 Billion Man - Skepticism of Bush's Social Security Plan Is Growing; Polling and Interviews Find Concerns Across Age Groups
3-15	Journalism Becomes More Hazardous in 2004 - Iraq Toll Makes 2004 Worst Year for Press in a Decade
3-15	Excess Fuel Billing by Halliburton in Iraq Is Put at $108 Million - Pentagon Auditors Conclude Halliburton Overcharged $100 Million
3-15	Army Ignored Broker on Arms Deal
3-15	Pentagon Data on Iraq Security Forces Unreliable
3-15	Kraft CEO Sees Nutrition Role For Biotech Foods
3-15	Australians Give Up Plastic Carry Bags
3-14	Manchin might consider death penalty law
3-14	Democratic Senators Cave on Bankruptcy Bill
3-14	Why We Must Withdraw from Iraq
3-14	Irritated Iraqis Wait for Change: Nearly six weeks after a landmark election, no new government has formed and people who risked their lives to vote wonder why they did
3-14	Government Report on U.S. Aviation Warns of Security Holes
3-14	Secret FBI report doubts al-Qa'ida can stage 9/11-type strikes in US - Zarqawi Planning U.S. Hit?
3-14	Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed for Sec of Veterans Affairs departure - Lawmakers want state to track health effects of depleted uranium
3-14	Bush orders policy to contain Chvez
3-14	Memo may hurt case for liability immunity
3-14	As DeLay's Woes Mount, So Does Money
3-14	Energy Regulatory Commission: 'Enron Committed Fraud'
3-14	Mr. Bush's Stealthy Tax Increase
3-14	Bird flu greater risk than terrorists, says Ken
3-14	Chain Saw Thins Flocks of Migrants on Gold Wings
3-14	China OKs anti-secession law aimed at Taiwan; Hu tells army to be prepared for war
3-14	Dropout recruits raise Army quality concerns
3-14	DeLay Ethics Allegations Now Cause of GOP Concern - DeLay And Company
3-14	Watchdog Details Run-Ins With Ridge
3-14	Wal-Mart la Mexicana
3-14	Trafficking in Politics; Bushs strong rhetoric on sex slavery masks policy failures
3-14	Breast milk toxin study troubles nursing moms - Chemical reform hampered by opposition - The body chemical
3-13	Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged Television News
3-13	Bush's budget could mean slashed air service in state's smallest airports
3-13	Mayor's Woes Reflect a City's Concern Over Gambling
3-13	Europeans Investigate CIA Role in Abductions; Suspects Possibly Taken To Nations That Torture
3-13	Pentagon report on prisoner abuse met with skepticism
3-13	Judgment at Baghdad
3-13	Social Security: On With the Show: President's 'Conversations' on Issue Are Carefully Orchestrated, Rehearsed
3-13	Plowing for Profits; U.S. agribusiness eyes Iraqs fledgling markets
3-13	Bird flu could kill 2 million Britons
3-13	Bankruptcy Bill Said to Hit Poorest Americans Hardest
3-13	Reforest Cebu, says biologist, or face collapse
3-13	FDA considers putting warnings on cosmetics
3-13	Taking Protest to Bank Chief's Home Street, 3 Activists Face Charges
3-13	Casino Bid Prompted High-Stakes Lobbying
3-13	World's Women Stand Together for Equality
3-13	Dish It Out, Ladies
3-13	Looting at Iraqi Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Official Says
3-13	Colombian (U.S.) drug war infiltrates pristine rain forest - Illegal drug trade hits new high as users total 200m
3-13	Noam Chomsky: Elections Run by Same Guys Who Sell Toothpaste
3-13	We Treated Poisoned Yushchenko, Admit Americans
3-12	Ethics amendments die in committee
3-12	Bill would bar police from spying without defined reason
3-12	The Spoils of War
3-12	Health Experts Demand an Inquiry into Mortality in Iraq
3-12	Annan Attacks Erosion of Rights in War on Terror
3-12	Kerry Pledges to Fight Bush on Alaska Oil
3-12	Congress may cut food aid to save subsidies
3-12	Gambling Interests Funded DeLay Trip; Later in 2000, Lawmaker's Vote Helped Defeat Regulatory Measure
3-12	Eavesdropping agency warned Bush of need to monitor networks used by Americans
3-12	Vietnam Fury at Agent Orange Case
3-12	Karen Hughes To Work on The World's View of U.S.
3-12	Senator Byrd: A Cry for Freedom in the U.S. Senate
3-12	Army, CIA Agreed on 'Ghost' Prisoners
3-12	When Dan Rather Tried To Hold a Bush Accountable
3-12	What's in you - The key is changing chemical policies
3-12	God's creation, not ours
3-12	Dollar's Fall Silences Africa's Garment Factories
3-12	U.S. Trade Deficit Hits $58.3 Billion as Chinese Imports Surge
3-12	Torture by Proxy
3-12	UK Went to War on One Page of Legal Advice
3-12	Online Reporters Must Divulge Confidential Sources
3-12	Obama Slams Bush for Linking Soc. Security to Blacks' Life Span
3-12	U.S. Calls Entry Point in San Diego a Possible Security Risk; Fencing Sought to Reinforce the Border Faces Opposition From Environmentalists - Borderline Insanity: An INS project threatens Southern California lands
3-12	Saddam's Capture: Just Another Bush Lie?
3-12	US detained 11-year-old at Abu Ghraib
3-12	Oil demand set to soar this year
3-12	Dean Slams Bush on Town-Hall Meetings
3-11	From Welch to gossip queen; Jeannette Walls now an MSNBC columnist
3-11	Workers Comp director to head insurance company
3-11	Chemical Soup and Federal Loopholes
3-11	Can Democracy Survive Bush's Embrace?
3-11	Teresa Heinz Kerry - Hacking the "Mother Machine"?
3-11	Australian scientists prove less trees, less rain
3-11	Senators May Block Social Security Vote - Analysis: Bush's choice of words is telling - Who Benefits? The big winners of Private Investment Accounts
3-11	They're Back, and Still Unworthy
3-11	Byrd warns Senate against tyranny of majority - Senator Byrd is correct to equate Bush with Hitler
3-11	Remembering All Those Arguments Made 1,500 Deaths Ago
3-11	Secret FBI Report Questions al Qaeda Capabilities
3-11	Are We in World War IV?
3-11	Judge Dismisses Agent Orange Lawsuit
3-11	Canada Call US Alaska Oil Drilling Plan Big Mistake
3-11	Egyptian Diplomat Rebuts Bush's Views on Mideast
3-11	Celebrating Women as Custodians of the Environment
3-11	A Bush Speech Judged Aggressive Inflames Oil Prices
3-11	The Enemy Within
3-11	Pentagon Seeks to Transfer More Detainees From Base in Cuba
3-11	U.S. Chamber of Commerce Distorts NAFTA Record, Hides Potential CAFTA Costs to California, Central America
3-11	Australia Struggles to Win Support for GMO Crops
3-10	Work begins on blending government merger bills
3-10	School vending bills change bothers some; Increase in sugar allowed makes room for power drinks
3-10	War on Terror May Breed More Terrorism, Experts Tell Madrid Summit
3-10	S. Korean Group Sponsored DeLay Trip; Visits May Have Broken House Rules
3-10	G.O.P. Senators Balk at Tax Cuts in Bush's Budget
3-10	Senate Tries New Strategy to Win Alaska Drilling
3-10	Republicans Weigh Voter Response to Retirement Plan
3-10	Securing the Right to Vote as a Citizenship Right
3-10	Why the Western Economic Model Will not Work for the World - China's Upward Mobility Strains World Resources
3-10	http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0309-02.htm
3-10	Chavez: Our Oil Reserve Does Not Belong to Mr. Bush
3-10	UK Firms Drop GMO Study, Seek to Boost Regular Seed
3-10	Now, bioengineered trees are taking root
3-9	Capito vs. Byrd? Congresswoman considering run for Senate, newspaper says (And the rumor is that Karl Rove might be involved in Capito's campaign; Rovians with Bush social security propaganda seem to be following her to her "town hall" meetings.)
3-9	Corporate lawyers rank states legal climate poor (that must mean there is still an iota of protection for the little guy)
3-9	Workers Compensation system: Reduced disability awards are like Wal-Marts hidden costs
3-9	State Senate opposes Social Security plan
3-9	Bottom workers ignored
3-9	Bond campaign to be intense, governor says
3-9	Flap over Byrd comment misplaced
3-9	Soldiers not to blame
3-9	Is the Amazon forest dying?
3-9	Homegrown Osamas
3-9	What Jesus Wouldn't Do: Much of the religious right's agenda is in direct contradiction to Christ's own teachings and most devout Christians know it
3-9	Data Is Lacking on Iran's Arms, U.S. Panel Says
3-9	Legal Center Tax Expert Fran Hill Testifies on 527 Reform
3-9	Hizbollah Draws Vast Pro-Syrian Crowds in Beirut
3-9	Safety Concerns Keep E.Asia Consumers Off GMO Food
3-9	'I Just Want to Survive and Go Home with All My Body Parts'
3-9	'Counter-recruiters' shadowing the military - Army: Recruiting Young Blacks Tougher Now
3-9	In The Northwest: Teresa Heinz Kerry hasn't lost her outspoken way
3-8	Ethics measure unlikely to change
3-8	State loss: Slashing federal help
3-8	Study tracks polluted air in nightspots; Results may help smoking-ban forces
3-8	Summit May Favor Tackling Causes of Terrorism Over Military Response
3-8	Terror Suspects Buying Firearms, U.S. Report Finds
3-8	Bush Nominates Weapons Expert as Envoy to U.N. - Ill-will Ambassador - Bush names hardliner as UN envoy
3-8	Beijing Leaders Speak of Force to Keep Taiwan 'Chinese'
3-8	The Debt-Peonage Society
3-8	US 'Could End World Poverty by 2025'
3-8	Shoot First, Ask Questions Later
3-8	World Fish Stocks Strained, UN Says
3-8	US Opposes DC Ban on Toxic Chemical Train Shipments
3-8	A Destabilizing Bit of Research
3-7	War criminal Bush needs to be deposed (scroll down; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
3-7	Exit Poll Madness
3-7	Now fears grow for ozone layer above Europe
3-7	Another Journalist Deliberately Targeted? - Targeting the Media the American Way - Italian Journalist Wounded in Hostage Drama Recalls Her Ordeal - Italy Grieves as Hostage Accuses US of Murder
3-7	UN Calls for Full Probe of Massacre in Colombia
3-7	The CIA Chief Steps Into It... Yet Again
3-7	Republicans are worried. Can stagecraft save Bush on Social Security?
3-7	The Senate on the Brink
3-7	Map of Bush states nearly same as 1850 slave states
3-7	Many Missteps Tied to Delay in Armor for Troops in Iraq - Shootings by U.S. at Iraq Checkpoints Questioned
3-7	U.S. Checkpoints Raise Ire in Iraq
3-7	The canaries in Nepal's coal mine?
3-7	Knowledge Fades As Africa Languages Die
3-7	Asian Drought Affects Millions, Hits Crops, Exports
3-7	EU Agency All-Clear is First Step to Growing GMO - India Allows Transgenic Cotton in Northern States - Environmentalists Fear Brazil's Lifting of GMO Ban - Key Facts, Arguments For and Against GMOs
3-7	Oil Majors Keep a Distance on Alaska Drilling
3-6	Exporting the deficit; W.Va. would lose hundreds of millions
3-6	No credit? No problem: Though President Bush wants it killed, the SBAs microloan program has enabled many West Virginians to get into business
3-6	Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails
3-6	Arms Sales Begin at Home
3-6	Top 10 Reasons Why Paul Wolfowitz Would Make a Good World Bank President
3-6	Video: None of us are Free None Us Are Free - If One Of Us Is Chained
3-6	Bush a hypocrite to lecture Putin
3-6	Ramadi Madness: Video shows U.S. soldier kicking a wounded, cuffed prisoner
3-6	Ozone layer could develop hole over Britain, scientists warn
3-6	F.E.C. to Consider Internet Politicking
3-6	Education Law Finds Few Fans in Utah
3-6	F.D.A. Seizes Millions of Pills From Pharmaceutical Plants
3-6	Torn From Moorings, Villagers From Sri Lanka Grasp for Past - Work far from over in disaster-torn India
3-6	Credit Card Penalties, Fees Bury Debtors
3-6	"Going to War with the Army You Have"
3-6	US Draws Jeers for Abortion Comments at UN
3-6	Ralph Nader: Presidential Malpractice
3-6	Lula Lets Down Greens in the Amazon
3-5	Efforts to Hide Sensitive Data Pit 9/11 Concerns Against Safety
3-5	Federal Plan to Log Sierra Nevada Draws Legal Actions
3-5	Phone calls misleading, Capito says
3-5	Women Fear Losing Rights in New Iraq
3-5	Mothers of Invention Face Technical Taliban
3-5	Pro and Con Line Up as Bush Presses Social Security Effort - Express Train to Disaster - 42 Senators Address Bush on Social Security
3-5	When Rapists Walk Free
3-5	Brazil Triumphs Over U.S. in WTO Subsidies Dispute
3-5	Bankruptcy bill has big problems
3-5	Vermont raises question
3-5	Report Shows Large Firms Relying on State Health Plan for Poor - Wal-Mart Workers Sign Union Cards
3-5	In Rebuilding Sudan, Birth Often Brings Suffering and Death
3-5	Consumers gain when textile quotas end and jobs move to China and India; Poor countries lose out
3-5	Alaska Community Researches Nuclear Power
3-5	ChoicePoint Data Cache Became a Powder Keg
3-5	Help! I've Been Colonized and Can't Get Up....
3-5	A Short Review of Nearly Everything
3-5	Enviro-justice activists send a dispatch from a panel with The Reapers
3-4	Gambling bill has powerful support; House leadership, unions throw weight behing table games
3-4	Julie Pratt: West Virginias children should be a public priority
3-4	Rick Wilson: Ads target AARP agenda
3-4	Maximum Pain is Aim of New US Weapon
3-4	American Jails in Iraq Bursting With Detainees
3-4	Emergency War Funding Wins Backing
3-4	Success in Iraq? I dont see 1,500 dead American kids as success
3-4	Deficits and Deceit
3-4	Bush Denies That Private Accounts Are in Serious Trouble
3-4	Attack on Byrd
3-4	Planet Ark Monsanto Brazil to Invest $20 Mln in New GMO Soy
3-3	Manchin pitches agenda to Democrats; Sprouse tells Republicans of his pending divorce
3-3	State tax avoidance report called overblown situation
3-3	Push for House rule changes defeated
3-3	Bush budget cuts to cost W.Va. millions
3-3	Rove Uses Campaign Playbook to Mastermind Social Security Fight - Bush Rejects Delay, Prepares Escalated Social Security Push
3-3	DeLay Moves To Protect His Political Base Back in Texas
3-3	New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans - New Polls Reinforce Americas Support for The International Criminal Court
3-3	Iraq War Lands in the Midst of Vermont's Town Hall Meetings
3-3	Greenspan Says Federal Budget Deficits Are 'Unsustainable'
3-3	CIA Avoids Scrutiny of Detainee Treatment
3-3	Syria Under Pressure: Worse Trouble May Lie Ahead
3-3	U.S. Troop Deaths in Iraq Rise to 1,500 - Canada a Haven Again
3-3	Hungary Producers Warn of Illegal GMO Maize Influx
3-3	Ecuador tribes vow to fight oil threat
3-2	Journalist Hersh slams Bush and the Iraq war
3-2	Sen. Byrd speaks up on need to debate issues
3-2	Medicare may see big cut in W.Va.; Official says state may have to cut $150 million
3-2	Social Security Vote May Be Delayed - For President's Social Security Proposal, Many Hurdles
3-2	Senate Republicans Ready to Push Arctic Refuge Drilling Measure
3-2	The American Witness
3-2	F.D.A. Official Admits 'Lapses' on Vioxx
3-2	U.S. Cites Array of Rights Abuses by the (US) Iraqi Government in 2004
3-2	Fiorina (Neo Con) Called Candidate for World Bank
3-2	On Vermont's Ballots: Iraq War
3-2	Between Black and Right
3-2	US 'torture jet' flies from UK
3-2	Lawsuit claims politically connected firm defrauded millions in Iraq
3-2	Nuclear Survivors Say They Were Fed Lies in Government Cover-Ups
3-2	Winds Trapping Pollutants, Solar Storms Blamed for Arctic Ozone Loss
3-1	Manchin takes reins at Workers' Comp; Governor plans to oversee meetings himself, staff says
3-1	State can defend public, insurance chief says
3-1	Layoff legislation pulled after letter from governor
3-1	Manchin offers to study "outrageous" business practices
3-1	Republican delegates push House rule changes
3-1	States, children left behind by 'No Child Left Behind' law
3-1	Bird Flu Kills 47th Asian Victim in Vietnam
3-1	Attorney General Urges Renewal Of Patriot Act - Gonzales Lays Out His Priorities at Justice Dept.
3-1	Judge Says U.S. Terror Suspect Can't Be Held as an Enemy Combatant - U.S. must charge terror suspect or let him go, judge in S.C. rules
3-1	ACLU, Ex-Detainees to Sue Rumsfeld Over Abuse - 50 British troops face prosecution over Iraq abuses - State Dept. Study Cites Torture of Prisoners; Rumsfeld Approved Similar Practices
3-1	Trauma of Iraq War Haunting Thousands Returning Home - In Vermont, a Town-Meeting Revolt Over Iraq War
3-1	DeLay Group Illegally Used Corporate Money -Lawyer - Just who is the Council for National Policy, and why isn't it paying taxes?
3-1	Just Say No - Public Views on Social Security Need to Swing Soon, Senator Says - Social Security a promise to public that must be kept - For GOP, Urgency On Social Security; White House Plans Six-Week Push - What A Rich Nation Should Really Be Doing About Social Security - USA Next campaign targets AARP - Seniors Draw Fire: AARP Prepares to Punch Back on Social Security
3-1	US Companies Seek Dismissal of Agent Orange Lawsuit
3-1	Lawmaking on Genetic (GMO) Food is Minefield For EU - EU Warns of Bullying on GMOs Through WTO Case - China Seen Opening Door Soon to Biotech Rice - Red Tape, Media Stop Russia Growing GMO Crops - Genetically Modified Crops in Africa - South Africa Leads on GMO, Other African States Wary - Spanish Farmers, EU's Lone GMO Sowers, Want More
3-1	Sales Halted in Biotech Drug Because of Link to a Death
3-1	Lebanon's Pro-Syria Government Is Dissolved After Protests - Lebanon's Government Quits in Face of Mass Protest
3-1	Gold Project Meets Opposition in Guatemala
3-1	Indian Tribe Refuses to be Silenced After Tsunami
3-1	With His Bells and Curves, Human Growth Science Grew Up
3-1	Trees, buffer zones essential to prevent future tsunami damage: UN
3-1	Haiti Massacre and the UN - Divisions derail Haiti one year on
3-1	Argentina takes hard line on IMF