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9/11 ALSO MARKED END OF PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM
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San Francisco fire fighters continue the search for survivors at Ground Zero, September 19, 2001. Many rescuers shunned masks after the President mounted the pile of rubble without respiratory protection, signaling to firemen, policemen, and volunteers that no one should worry about the towers having become a toxic waste-pile the likes of which the developed world hadn't seen since Chernobyl.
PHOTO: Andrea Booher/ FEMA
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THE REAL 9/11 CONSPIRACY
Karl Rove and George Bush saw an opportunity -- mounting the pile of World Trade Center rubble -- for a public-relations coup in devastated Manhattan that could instantly reverse the President's distinctly unpresidential day on 9/11 and his administration's previously weak polling numbers. Washington pushed New York Mayor Rudolf Giuliani and local officials to get with the program and re-open Wall Street (which the 9/11 attacks had shut down) faster than was advisable. City officials were told by administration emissaries that, despite the pall hanging over Ground Zero, all was well with the air and water in lower Manhattan and normal life should resume.
Although nearly the entire city could, for months to come, smell the rancid co-mingling of burning plastics, asbestos, lead, chromium, mercury, vinyl chloride, benzene, and scores of other toxic materials as well as decaying human flesh, Bush's appointees in the EPA continually bombarded city officials with reports claiming that the air was certifiably "safe" to breathe. It wasn't
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On Sunday, the number of American military deaths in "the global war on terror" reached 2,974, officially exceeding the number of Americans and foreign nationals killed in the 9/11 attacks
1 of 3 Americans believe that the government knows more than it's telling about 9/11, or had some hand in it
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Arctic ice has melted so much that a ship likely could sail from Siberia or Norway to the North Pole (PHOTO: NASA)
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"This situation is unlike anything observed in previous seasons"
Charges that Moscow eliminating competitors to national oil co
Tied to Pakistan's secretive government ISI, not madrassas religious schools
Congress not about to stop massive domestic surveillance programs already up and running
Liberals name Obrador as country's "legitimate president," to form symbolic government
As Rumsfeld charges that terrorists are manipulating U.S. press
A reality show did not cause the real life reality of America's lingering and insidious segregation
Poverty caused by anti-drug policies has driven rural areas towards Taliban
To date, 52 of the 53 patients known to have been infected died within about 25 days
S African health officials scramble to find everyone contacted
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Five year-old Maria works in a quarry on the outskirts of the Zambian capital(PHOTO: © Nebert Mulenga/IRIN)
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Poverty and HIV/AIDS created an army of orphans and vulnerable children left in the care of aged grandparents or extended family members
No enthusiasm for more unilateral actions, including withdrawl from sensitive W Bank areas
14 so-called "high-value detainees" will still face Gitmo military tribunals
Irregularities were recognized but downplayed by the court
Liberal opposition vows struggle in the streets, to set up "alternative government"
Failed U.S. and UK-led counter-narcotics and military policies blamed
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THE WAR IN IRAQ
POLITICS AS USUAL
