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  • Project Orion is a nuclear-pulse system-a kind of atomic analog of the wartime V-2 or buzz - bomb.

    Tin 2010

  • The Honduran people should have the right to know what their new leaders, in the name of democracy, are doing to destroy the very basic foundations of a democratic system-a free press.

    REPORTING FROM HONDURAS: No Press Freedom in Post-Coup Honduras 2009

  • REPORTING FROM HONDURAS: No Press Freedom in Post-Coup Honduras yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'REPORTING FROM HONDURAS: No Press Freedom in Post-Coup Honduras'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The Honduran people should have the right to know what their new leaders, in the name of democracy, are doing to destroy the very basic foundations of a democratic system-a free press.'

    REPORTING FROM HONDURAS: No Press Freedom in Post-Coup Honduras 2009

  • Or should he be allowed to spend the rest of his life in the archipelago of the federal corrections system-a prospect that, because the state of Oklahoma is eager to put him on trial for murder, could very well force him to face the death penalty a second time?

    Should Mcveigh Die? 2008

  • This spring the Illinois Legislature passed a bill eliminating the superintendent's job, giving Mayor Richard Daley sole control over who would run his city's $2.8 billion school system-a power coveted by nearly every big-city mayor.

    Uneasy Chairs 2008

  • But whatever you think of Moore, the French system-a complex mix of private and public financing-offers valuable lessons for would-be health-care reformers in the U.S. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: The French Lesson In Health Care 2007

  • But whatever you think of Moore, the French system-a complex mix of private and public financing-offers valuable lessons for would-be health-care reformers in the U.S.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: The French Lesson In Health Care 2007

  • Only one Serb radio station agreed to air a U. N.-prepared radio program explaining the tax system-a move that some U.N. officials argue may have been part of a deliberate effort by local Serb officials to foment instability and mistrust.

    Yugoslavia: Clashes In Kosovo 2007

  • Consider that in September, an ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today survey found that 56 percent of Americans preferred a government-run universal health system "like Medicare" to our current system-a development that Marcia Angell called the unsung development of 2006 in an op-ed for The Boston Globe.

    Hasta la vista, single-payer movement? 2007

  • We have nothing less than a two-tiered system-a declining number of Americans that matter and a majority that is taken for granted.

    The Electoral College: A new approach to reform 2006

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