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Petitions Values, Science, Insurance

Petitions Values, Science, Insurance

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Protect Health Insurance Incentives for Employers Petition President Bush is considering eliminating the business tax deduction for employer-provided health insurance. Why would the President take away this important tax incentive for health insurance for working people? Unfortunately, it’s so that he can pay for more tax breaks for the wealthy. The tax code probably could use some cleaning-up. but it is short-sighted and wrong to eliminate a major tax incentive for workers’ health insurance simply to give the wealthy more…

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Abstinence-Only Education Teaches Blatant Lies

Abstinence-Only Education Teaches Blatant Lies

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This NOW press release is only one of many on Waxman’s report, but I want to do my part to get this out there. Read the complete report at http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20041201102153-50247.pdf Just as a side note – does anyone stop to think of the basic fact that abortions in the USA increased during Bush, decreased during Clinton, increased during Bush II? A report released on Dec. 1 by Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., found that abstinence-only education programs supported by George…

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Petition to UC Berkeley

Petition to UC Berkeley

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Petition to UC Berkeley PROFESSOR CANNED FOR STANDING UP RELEASING PAPER ON GE CONTAMINATION CLICK TO SIGN PETITION A well-respected and popular professor at the University of California in Berkeley has been fired after publishing a scientific paper regarding the uncontrolled contamination of irreplaceable native Mexican corn varieties by genetically engineered corn. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, whose corn contamination article was published in the science journal “Nature,” was denied his tenure due to pressure from the biotech company Monsanto on the…

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EPA to Expose Kids to Toxic Chemicals

EPA to Expose Kids to Toxic Chemicals

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking input on a new proposed study in which infants in participating low income families will be monitored for health impacts as they undergo exposure to known toxic chemicals over the course of two years. For taking part in these studies, each family will receive $970, a free video camera, a T-shirt, and a framed certificate of appreciation. The study, entitled Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS), will look at how chemicals are ingested,…

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Photos Define the Time

Photos Define the Time

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10×10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris This is really amazing – check it out. 10×10â„¢ (‘ten by ten’) is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10×10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image,…

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Grand Canyon by Noah’s Flood

Grand Canyon by Noah’s Flood

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PARK SERVICE STICKS WITH BIBLICAL EXPLANATION FOR GRAND CANYON Oh brother – they can’t be serious… The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces, according to internal documents released Oct. 13th by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. October 13, 2004 PARK SERVICE STICKS WITH BIBLICAL EXPLANATION FOR GRAND CANYON; Promised Legal Review on Creationist Book Is Shelved October 11,…

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