struggling to increase the size of its force amid an increasingly unpopular war

70 percent of cervical cancers

cause of cervical cancer

Merck is the same company that made headlines in 2004 for failing to disclose that its painkiller Vioxx raised the risk of cardiac arrest and stroke in patients

limited testing

most Americans don't even know they have it

Private schools will not have to employ teachers with educational credentials

No Child Left Behind Act, which has been championed by President Bush already at the cost of millions of taxpayer dollars

Northwest Association of Accredited Schools

assured that they are informed citizens and on equal footing with students from the rest of the country

accredited by any agency of their choosing.

ot that parents don't care; it's just that many of them are stretched too far

violates the intent and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution

Once a voucher is used for a religious school, taxpayer money is being used to fund religion

any organization may comply with the described minimal standards for creating a school, thus allowing a student to use that voucher to attend it

a school may call itself the "School of Humanity" all the while teaching and preparing its students for Jihad against America. And all this at the expense of U.S. citizens!

vouchers were used with no significant improvements in test scores noted

higher test scores are largely a result of smaller class sizes - not vouchers!

he did try to make Mr Lula understand that ethanol production was not high on his agenda

Nicaragua's potential for sugar-cane ethanol holds greater promise than corn-based ethanol

Brazil is the main producer of ethanol in the world and accounts for about 90 percent of global biofuels

seems more inclined to follow his ideological soul mate, Mr Chávez, who has for good measure already promised to finance a petroleum refinery in Nicaragua

Ortega appears therefore to be adopting a pragmatic approach to ameliorating his country's energy crisis

Ortega made it clear that he prefers the more populist, petro-dollar largesse of Mr Chávez

it is vulnerable to a sudden drop in the price of oil.

deepen energy cooperation and strengthen multilateral relations in the region.

stressed the need for energy security in the face of an "unjust international economic order"

Bolivia, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela

Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines are flirting.

Ten countries also signed on to a parallel Treaty on Energy Security, which Venezuela had already signed with Argentina and Uruguay, and which focuses on: oil and gas; ethanol production,

and alternative means of generating electricity.

Guyana's interest in developing a large-scale ethanol industry

Mr Chávez would appear to have trumped Mr Lula at the end of their week of energetic diplomacy

organizing to fight for their right to land, health care and education.

lack of government support.

land occupation, and the intention of occupying land, will become a crime punishable in some cases by five years in prison

arbitrary decision by a judge

anti-terrorist law

straight to prison.

dangerous interventions or obstacles on public roadways,” “noise pollution”

financing terrorist activities is also a crime punishable by 5-15 years in prison, as is any kind of association with terrorist organizations.

anyone could be considered a terrorist

A lawyer giving a workshop, a journalist doing an investigation, or an international NGO providing financial support could all be accused of promoting terrorism.”

needed in the U.S.-declared war on terrorism.

355 detainees

80 are eligible for release or transfer

another 75 to 80 detainees on track for transfer

down to about 200

25 of the 80 detainees currently eligible for transfer cannot be returned to their home nations because of human rights concerns

U.S. officials did not specify which countries were reluctant

Britain asked the United States on Tuesday to release five detainees from Guantanamo

still reviewing the request

14 al Qaeda suspects

a label that allows the U.S. government to keep holding them

from secret CIA prisons

not meant to determine guilt

Charges have not been filed

Nominally, the sponsor of No. 07-0032 is Californians for Equal Representation. But that’s just a letterhead

address is the office suite of Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, the law firm for the California Republican Party, and its covering letter is signed by Thomas W. Hiltachk, the firm’s managing partner and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s personal lawyer for election matters

winner-take-all rule, which is in force in all but two states, does seem unfair on the face of it.

while everybody else is still going with winner take all by state, the real-world result

Republicans

Ohio-size gift of electoral votes

audacious power play packaged as a step forward for democratic fairness.

corporations to help improve health conditions in the countries where they operate

blocked by William R. Steiger, a specialist in education and a scholar of Latin American history

family has long ties to President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Richard H. Carmona

Bush administration's frequent efforts during his tenure to give scientific documents a political twist

senior official told him that "this will be a political document, or it will not be released."

scientific and medical experts inside and outside the government against Steiger and his political bosses

Steiger

Steiger

"often inaccurate or out-of-date and it lacked analysis and focus."

Steiger confirmed that he sharply disagreed with Carmona on the issue of how much the report should promote Bush administration policies

let Americans know what their generosity is already doing in helping to solve those challenges

linking public health problems with violence and other social ills

The hunger, disease, and death resulting from poor food and nutrition create social and political instability

the report charts trends in infectious and chronic disease; reviews efforts to curb AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; calls for the careful monitoring of public health to safeguard against bioterrorism; and explains the importance of proper nutrition, childhood immunizations and clean air and water

disease and suffering do not respect political boundaries in an era of globalization and mass population movements

son of Daniel Mijangos, who is running for the post of mayor for the PP (Patriotic Party), was shot dead.

mafias linked to drug trafficking, smuggling, and money laundering are responsible for at least 14 of the murders

People support affordable housing with their labor, money, and votes—just so long as it's nowhere near them.

retired schoolteacher had sent him inside a Monet greeting card, which began, "You are a disgrace to the human race and should be ashamed of yourself."

teacher's home is worth almost as much as his own. "And it's surrounded by vacant lots,"

Martha's Vineyard, 10 homeowners sued earlier this year—on environmental grounds—to block construction of an affordable house for a fisherman who'd been living with his wife and children in a tent.

Joni Lynch says her most strident foes were button-wearing progressives.

few development projects have been more enigmatically unpopular

Marin project

three luxury houses will be clumped onto a 17.5-acre hill in a way that preserves most of the land as open space.

Duane and I climbed into his Mercedes station wagon and drove to the project site, a hillside of chaparral and grass. He'd promised me it would be obvious that congestion was already bad. A lone Toyota Prius with a "Save Tibet" sticker silently cruised by. "Usually this whole area is packed with cars," he insisted. And if I researched the matter, he hinted, I might learn that the endangered Tiburon mariposa lily grows here (naturalists doubt it), and that an Indian burial spear discovered nearby might have belonged to the county's namesake, Chief Marin (a Marin anthropologist says Duane is "reporting things that are not there"). Duane next raised an environmental justice concern: Placing the affordable housing in the shadow of million-dollar homes fosters "a slave kind of mentality."

most opposition to affordable housing boils down to homeowner fear of lowered property values and higher school costs.

led by the sheriff's office and has involved 17 agencies

destroying our lands and wildlife

$300 million to revive

$11,000 per acre to pull the plants, clear irrigation systems, reshape any terracing and replant native vegetation

Walters didn't give specific goals for Operation Alesia

put its leaders into jail

at least two straight weeks of daily raids

at least two straight weeks of daily raids

Bosenko has promised will be at least two straight weeks of daily raids.

straight weeks of daily raids.

two straight weeks of daily raids

two straight weeks of daily raids.

two straight weeks of daily raids.

buying water from Savannah for the last five years.

decade ago

became widely known about a decade ago >,

straining the key underground water source past its limits

continued high use there of underground water could intensify saltwater intrusion in wells

already caused some saltwater to be suctioned

5, 10 or 15 years

$624 million

69 Wal-Mart stores received other low-cost financing of about $138 million

uses taxpayer dollars to create jobs that tend to be poverty-wage, part-time and lacking in adequate healthcare benefits

$9 billion in profits can wrest job subsidies from state and local governments

75 percent of our jobs are fulltime and we offer solid healthcare benefits starting at less than $35 a month for individuals

US farm subsidy policy is artificially promoting GM production at the expense of other non-gm oilseeds

US's commitment to free world trade in the agricultural sector is something of a fraud

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians

orcing consumers to buy things they don't want providing large taxpayer revenues to produce those things in the first place