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AP Impact: Right-to-know laws often ignored (AP)

November 17th, 2011 | Author: admin

In this Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 photo, bundles of documents to be revised, organized and scanned sit in piles at the former National Police archive in Guatemala City. Guatemala adopted a freedom of information law in 2008. In the first worldwide test of freedom of information in 2011, Guatemala was among the most responsive of 105 countries involved, confirming a request from The Associated Press in 72 hours and sending all documents in ten days. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – Satbir Sharma’s wife is dead. His family lives in fear. His father’s left leg is shattered, leaving him on crutches for life.


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Greenman: Nasty debate won’t have lasting impact

October 19th, 2011 | Author: admin

So focused were the GOP candidates on kneecapping each other, without the help of immigrant labor, nobody on the stage made a particularly compelling case against President Obama.

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AP IMPACT: NYPD spied on city’s Muslim partners (AP)

October 5th, 2011 | Author: admin

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, Sheikh Reda Shata stands in the men's prayer room at his mosque, The Islamic Center of Monmouth County, in Middletown, N.J. The New York Police Department’s intelligence squad secretly assigned an undercover officer to monitor a prominent Muslim leader even as he decried terrorism, cooperated with the police, dined with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning series by The New York Times about Muslims in America. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP – The New York Police Department’s intelligence squad secretly assigned an undercover officer to monitor a prominent Muslim leader even as he decried terrorism, cooperated with the police, dined with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning series by The New York Times about Muslims in America.


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AP IMPACT: Hospital drug shortages deadly, costly (AP)

September 23rd, 2011 | Author: admin

In this Aug. 29, 2011 photo, Erin Fox, manager of the Drug Information Service at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, stands by a board listing drugs in short supply. At hospitals across the country, 'scoring drugs' has taken on a new meaning. Hundreds admit buying medicines at exorbitant prices from 'gray market' dealers taking advantage of, and possibly exacerbating, a record shortage of life-saving prescription medicines. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)AP – A severe shortage of drugs for chemotherapy, infections and other serious ailments is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can’t get them any other way.


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AP IMPACT: Hospitals face drug price-gouging (AP)

September 23rd, 2011 | Author: admin

In this Aug. 29, 2011 photo, Erin Fox, manager of the Drug Information Service at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, stands by a board listing drugs in short supply. At hospitals across the country, 'scoring drugs' has taken on a new meaning. Hundreds admit buying medicines at exorbitant prices from 'gray market' dealers taking advantage of, and possibly exacerbating, a record shortage of life-saving prescription medicines. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)AP – A severe shortage of drugs for chemotherapy, infections and other serious ailments is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can’t get them any other way.


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AP IMPACT: NYPD eyed US citizens in intel effort (AP)

September 22nd, 2011 | Author: admin

The shop of barber Amine Darhbach, a U.S. citizen from Morocco and located off Steinway Street in Astoria, N.Y., had been under scrutiny by the New York Police Department as part of a secret program to gather intelligence on the city's Moracann population, is interviewed as he cuts hair, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. The New York Police Department subjected American citizens to surveillance and scrutiny, not because of any wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity. Documents obtained by The Associated Press describe a secret program known as the Moroccan Initiative, which catalogued where people of Moroccan ancestry shopped, ate and prayed. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.


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Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact (AP)

September 18th, 2011 | Author: admin

Debris is shown at the Reno Air Races in Reno, Nev. on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011 where pilot Jimmy Leeward crashed his plane on Friday. In the middle is a crater that authorities say is six feet six wide and three feet deep where the plane hit the ground. (AP Photo/Marilyn Newton, pool)AP – The scene of a Reno air race crash that killed nine people reveals the violence of the plane’s missile-like impact — a crater in the tarmac roughly 3 feet deep and 8 feet across with debris spread out over more than an acre.


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