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Thanks to GM, People Are Being Displaced So Their Forests Can Become Offsets for SUVs

Posted on: Nov 18, 2009, Source: Mother Jones

Should we focus on industries paying to preserve distant trees rather than reducing emissions closer to home? It's the question of the day in Washington and Copenhagen.

Buyers at Risk: Christmas Season of Toxic Recalls

Posted on: Dec 18, 2007, Source: AlterNet

Who is out there protecting Americans from these hidden hazards? Practically no one.

Legal Toxins in Toys May Disrupt Male Sexual Development

Posted on: Oct 26, 2007, Source: The Nation

Toxic chemicals in toys can interrupt the production of testosterone, the hormone that helps determine everything from gender-based behavior to sex drive to sperm count.

Crimes of Big Tobacco

Posted on: Apr 22, 2002, Source: The Nation

Big Tobacco's multibillion-dollar profits rest on a global underground network of smugglers and money launderers. A six-month investigation follows the paper trail of this illegal trade.

Sgt. Pepper Meets Fidel Castro: The Beatles in Cuba

Posted on: Apr 25, 2000, Source: deleted

Thirty years after the Beatles helped ignite our own "cultural revolution," they're doing it again in Cuba. More than 200 people gathered in Havana's Cuba Pavilion in mid-October for what was billed as the "First International Colloquium on the Transcendency of the Beatles," a three day celebration of the Beatles' strange, semi-underground history in Cuba.