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...underground campaign against the VEBA on the Internet for the past several weeks and it is having an impact. "I think it's a conflict of interest for the union to represent us and take care of our health care," said Tom Avery, a UAW retiree from Pontiac, Michigan who was helping out on the union's picket lines...
Elementary and high school students in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia use finger scans to pay for lunch - and even to check into class. But in many other states, the parental outcry about privacy has stopped the technology in its tracks. Michigan and Iowa have passed laws essentially barring schools from taking electronic fingerprints of children. Last month, Illinois enacted a law requiring schools to get parental consent before capturing an image of a child's finger...
...who’s paid a lick of attention to the first three weeks of college football this season would know, I-AA teams have made a real statement. A stunning 34-32 victory by Appalachian State, last season’s I-AA champion, over then-No. 5 Michigan was only the first of several victories by I-AA teams over I-A opponents so far this year. Nicholls State also downed Rice, while New Hampshire defeated Marshall...
...rare day, they’re going to be able to do what they did against Michigan,” Murphy says. “There’s no difference between them and the Mid-American teams, there’s no difference between them and Purdue, there’s no difference between them and Northwestern or Duke. There just isn?...
...Michigan Sen. Carl Levin and Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed certainly hope so. In this week's congressional tug-of-war over Iraq policy, their amendment to the defense spending bill - the latest version of one they've introduced four times before - has the best chance of ultimately winning the 60 votes required to give it a fuller Senate consideration. Finding 60 votes this time around is unlikely. But it is steadily gaining support...