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North Korea Rocket Launch Hypocrisy

The hypocrisy of our reaction to the North Korea rocket launch. Is it our biggest nuclear threat at…

Drug firms ‘hype up diseases to boost sales’

SOURCE: The Daily Mail - Click Here to view Drug firms 'hype up diseases to boost sales' By RICHARD SHEARS, Daily Mail 08:35am 11th April 2006 Drug companies are inventing diseases to sell more of their products, it has been claimed. Scientists have accused major...

UN report shows poverty grinds on

UN report shows poverty grinds on The benefits of increased global trade, investment, technology and economic growth are not flowing through to the world's poorest people, a new United Nations report released on June 29 has found. Worldwide, 1.2 billion people live on...