Obama Push
Barack Obama is campaigning in states that went Republican four years ago, while John McCain is pushing back with a new burst of advertising.
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Obama-Inspired Black Voters Warm to Politics
Many blacks who have been disaffected, apolitical, discouraged or just bored with politics have snapped to attention this year.
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Green for the Rust Belt
In the face of rising unemployment, renewable energy has become a crucial source of good jobs for laid-off Rust Belt workers. The sour economy is bad news for corporate innovation and technology, and it could spell trouble for years to come.
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FDA and China's Pharmaceutials
China is becoming the biggest producer of pharmaceutical ingredients in the world – but the F.D.A. inspects just a tiny fraction of China’s drug plants. Can we be sure what we’re taking is safe?
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Iceland, Mired in Debt, Blames Britain for Woes
Britain has provoked anger by using an antiterrorism law to freeze British assets in a failing Icelandic bank.
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As Taliban Overwhelm Police, Pakistanis Hit Back
Citizens have been encouraged to form posses of their own in a sign of the shortcomings of Pakistan’s police forces.
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America and the World
As president, George W. Bush’s cowboy diplomacy wrenched the United States out of the international community. We must rejoin the world.
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On This Day
On Nov. 2, 1976, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.
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In Mexico, Sorting Out Good Guys From Bad
In Mexico’s drug war, the reality is that many bureaucrats are serving both the taxpayers and the traffickers.
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