Monthly Archives: March 2008
NHS dentists play as patients wait
From The Sunday Times
March 30, 2008
Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Editor
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3646522.ece
Health service dentists have been forced to go on holiday or spend time on the golf course this month despite millions of patients being denied dental care. Continue reading
In Wal-Mart We Trust
Who did the most to help victims of Hurricane Katrina? According to a new study, it was the company everyone loves to hate
Colby Cosh, National Post
Published: Friday, March 28, 2008
http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=b65bd77e-511f-4e00-88a7-a53a2a5ea4ca
Shortly before Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on the morning of Aug. 29, 2005, the chief executive officer of Wal-Mart, Lee Scott, gathered his subordinates and ordered a memorandum sent to every single regional and store manager in the imperiled area. His words were not especially exalted, but they ought to be mounted and framed on the wall of every chain retailer — and remembered as American business’s answer to the pre-battle oratory of George S. Patton or Henry V.
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The Clean Energy Scam
Thursday, Mar. 27, 2008
By MICHAEL GRUNWALD
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html
From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world’s greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the “savannization” of the Amazon
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