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...motivation in this case, in which the majority of people concerned were poor and black and the prestige attached to such a rescue mission would not be seen as particularly great. Susan Cooper Perth, Australia As ghastly as the hurricane catastrophe has been, perhaps it is the very wake-up call that the U.S. and President Bush need to make them address the real possibility of devastation caused by global warming and what should be done about it - now. Hally Hardie St. Ives, England Healthy Hearts I want to thank you for your story on the new, noninvasive heart-scanning...
Hurricane Katrina itself, of course, was a product of natural violence, not human violence, and we need to be careful with any comparisons with September 11 lest they trivialize the suffering of either one. But we also need to be honest with ourselves: if 9/11 was a wake-up call we all felt compelled to answer, 8/30 was a living nightmare which much of this nation slept through...
...manager. Wal-Mart's critics have also changed tack. The United Food and Commercial Workers, after failing to organize workers at Wal-Mart stores, is hoping to build national resistance to the retailer. The union hired Paul Blank, 29, former political director of Howard Dean's campaign, to lead Wake-Up Wal-Mart; Jim Jordan, who was one of John Kerry's campaign managers, is advising Wal-Mart Watch, a group affiliated with the Service Employees International Union. Wake-Up Wal-Mart is calling on parents to boycott the retailer as they shop for school supplies. The battle will heat...
...shelves stocked and its prices low, is doubling the size of its Washington lobbying operation. It is touting its charitable deeds, backed by a national advertising campaign and a website called walmartfacts.com Why? Because across town, a group of twentysomething activists working for a union-backed organization called Wake-Up Wal-Mart is preparing attacks on the corporate giant's reputation. In the group's office, littered with handwritten signs like THEY PROFIT, YOU PAY, is a map tracking the enemy's movements: the counties where Wal-Mart wants to open new stores...
...last song the lost crew of the space shuttle Columbia ever heard was Scotland the Brave by the 51st Highland Brigade. That was the wake-up song beamed up by NASA on the morning the ship was supposed to return to earth. The day before it had been Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet, for Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon. Thursday morning it had been John Lennon's Imagine. Scotland the Brave was for mission specialist Laurel Clark, Scottish by extraction...