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Fair-trade goods are well worth it
It can feel nearly impossible as individuals to affect issues like human rights and the health of our environment on a global scale. Many people feel like they want to do something but have no idea where to start, not realizing the power tool for change...Tags: Collective Contract, Prices, Politics, Career and Workplace, Work Rules Contract Issues
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In Theory: Have Christians retreated from the world?
Writing in on the Huffington Post, Phil Cooke claims that Christians' voices are being drowned out because of a love/hate relationship with the media, a relationship that is driving Christians to retreat to safe zones instead of engaging with the wider...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Media Industry, Barack Obama, Evangelical Christianity
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Goodall on the Rose Parade wave, football and honoring the earth
As grand marshal of the 124th Tournament of Roses Parade, British primatologist Jane Goodall got the grandest possible tour of Colorado Boulevard on New Year’s Day. Best known for her decades-long studies of chimpanzee behavior in the wilds of...
Tags: University of Cambridge, England, Politics, Arts and Culture, Football
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In Theory: Does the budget need a dose of morals?
Religion pervades government in America. It's evident in the debates on abortion, religious freedom, gay rights and a host of other topics. But now a Christian leader is arguing that religion needs to be inserted into the one area where it isn't...Tags: Abortion, Ayn Rand, Ethics, Crime, Law and Justice, Same-Sex Marriage
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California Senate OKs protections for kids of police, public officials
The state Senate approved legislation Friday that would make it a crime to harass or secretly photograph the children of police officers, judges and other public officials because of their occupation. The measure requires those convicted serve 10 days...
Tags: Ben Hueso, Quitting Smoking, Los Angeles Police Department, Science and Technology, Labor Legislation
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Drone program had largely run its course
WASHINGTON — President Obama took pains to place the new restrictions on targeted killings he announced Thursday into the context of a broad reappraisal of the nation's anti-terrorism effort. Drones are not "a cure-all for terrorism," he said in...Tags: George W. Bush, Intel Corp., U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, United Nations, Crime, Law and Justice
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Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?
The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration, Armed Conflicts, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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At annual meeting, McDonald's CEO fields questions on nutrition, wages
Tribune reporterMcDonald's executives fielded a number of questions at the company's annual shareholder meeting Thursday, including its role in the global obesity epidemic, marketing to children and wages for entry-level workers at its restaurants. "We don't sell junk...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Employees, Weight, Healthy Diet, Sandwiches
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Setting limits on drones
It's about time. President Barack Obama's announcement today of new limits on drone strikes and his renewed call to close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay were badly overdue. The United States has lost much credibility overseas with...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Congress
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In Afghanistan, businesswomen must seek a delicate balance
KABUL, Afghanistan — Roya Mahboob navigates the potholes of doing business in Afghanistan like any other entrepreneur. Corruption is rife. Kidnappings are common. Bomb blasts remain an overarching reality. But as the female chief executive of a...
Tags: Science and Technology, Employees, Crime, Law and Justice, New Products, Feminism
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93-5 'KHY Rock Report
Headlines for Friday, May 24, 2013
SLAYER: Metallica, System Members Speak at Hanneman Memorial
Metallica's Robert Trujillo and System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian joined Slayer's Kerry King as speakers at Thursday's memorial service for...Tags: Music Theater, Amway, Mike Murphy, U2 (music group), Queens of the Stone Age (music group)
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Guatemala full of questions after genocide conviction annulled
MEXICO CITY — The Guatemalan high court's decision to annul the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Tuesday revived questions about his responsibility for the slaughter of some 1,700 ethnic Maya people. The...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Litigation, Human Rights Watch, Genocide, Justice System
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