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    Who Cares What Ideology Drives The High-Speed Train?

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    BY FROMA HARROP In Texas, a private company wants to build a bullet train joining Dallas and Houston. In California, the state is raising its own billions to create a very fast ride between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Two very different ways to fund high-speed rail, but they have one thing in common. They […]

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    Ebola’s Message: Foreign Aid And Science Funding In A Time Of Global Peril

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    BY JOE CONASON Most Americans have long believed, in embarrassing ignorance, that the share of the U.S. federal budget spent on foreign aid is an order of magnitude higher than what we actually spend abroad. Years ago, this mistaken view was amplified from the far right by the John Birch Society. Today, it is the […]

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    Selling To ‘Minimalists’ Is Surprisingly Easy

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    BY FROMA HARROP It matters not whether you are sizing up, sizing down or sizing sideways. Merchants have products to help you on your way to the life you think you want. Before L. Frank Baum published his first Wizard of Oz book in 1900, he helped create the modern consumer society by totally redesigning […]

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    What Bill Clinton Might Have Said …

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH “I’m just saying, you know, if I were Osama Bin Laden – he’s a very smart guy, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about him – and I nearly got him once. I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town […]

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    Far From A Loser, The Post Office Is A Money-Making Operation

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    BY JIM HIGHTOWER One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us. Antigovernment ideologues and privatization dogmatists, however, hate the very word “public,” and they’ve long sought to demonize the U.S. Postal Service, undercut its popular support and, finally, dismantle it. Their main line […]

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