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...same time America pays to keep more than 300,000 troops in Western Europe, at a cost of $342 million per day, 37 million Americans are shunted out of the medical care market for lack of insurance. While the Pentagon loses untold billions to waste and fraud, the U.S. shares with South Africa the dubious distinction of being the only advanced captialist countries without some national health plan...
...desegregate the bus system, to memorialize the nation's decades-long struggle for civil rights. Last week 5,000 black and white Americans gathered there to dedicate a black granite sculpture engraved with the names of 40 particularly unforgettable men, women and children -- an honor roll representing the untold numbers of people who have died in violent racial confrontations...
...does a program that discriminates against renters and the poor, benefits the greedy at the expense of the needy, and costs the federal government untold billions in revenue survive year after year...
...veterans of untold small tremors and countless mock drills, Californians have long been convinced they were psychologically ready for a big quake. Last week that comforting belief was demolished. "I'm scared," confesses Sarah Ford, 43, who with her three-year-old daughter found temporary shelter at an Oakland high school. "I need a stress pill. When I walk, I'm like tipping. I'm looking to see if anything moves...
...poker player, collector of Japanese porcelain, was probably the man most responsible for the most beautiful train ride in the western hemisphere. It was 1881 when he took over construction of the trans-Canadian railway, a project that consumed several fortunes, 4 1/2 years of agonizing labor and an untold number of lives. "Since we can't export the scenery," he once said, expressing a frontiersman's thirsty love of the land, "we'll have to import the tourists...