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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...helmets and ski masks. Flabbergasted workers arriving for early morning shifts on Sunday found thousands of Federal police deployed to enforce a government decree shutting down the company. A special edition of the government gazette decreed that because of inefficiency and unacceptable losses, the state-run utility that provides power to 25 million people in the heart of Mexico had ceased to exist. Its 44,000 employees were immediately terminated, depriving the nation's oldest industrial trade union of its entire membership. The plants were kept running by federal electricity workers bused in to take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Calderón Busting Unions or Bringing Change? | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...resulting tally, then, would include a much smaller pool of participants, which automatically lessens the significance of whatever effect, if any, the vaccine appeared to have, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "When you lose statistical power, something that would have been significant in the [original, larger] population, could now fall below significance merely by the lower numbers. That's what happened with this trial," Fauci says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Rising Doubts About Hailed AIDS Vaccine | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...Power Play: Sits there and pouts while Blair insults his idiot stick figure with no soul of a girlfriend...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Recap: "Married." Finally. | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...Power Play: Has V wrapped around her pinky...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Recap: "Married." Finally. | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...Trafigura and Carter-Ruck did not take into account the power of Twitterers. By dawn in Britain, the words Trafigura, Carter-Ruck and Guardian, often accompanied by the # sign that enables Twitter users to click through to collected tweets on a tagged subject, began to crop up on the site, elbowing their way into the top-10 trending topics by midmorning. "What is Trafigura anyway????" wondered 17-year-old @ClaireMacIsaac. An immediate response came from @iannutt, helpfully directing her to an earlier Guardian story that detailed Trafigura's involvement in what the newspaper described as "one of the worst pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twitterers Thwart Effort to Gag Newspaper | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

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