Top Stories from AlterNet for March 22, 2005

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Subject:Disaster on the Job for Steel Workers; Look Out, World Bank!

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Top Stories from AlterNet for March 22, 2005

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SUDDEN DEATH

Dan Frosch, AlterNet

A young steel worker dies and an industry grapples with a

disturbing rise in fatalities on the job.

http://www.alternet.org/story/21537/

 

WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG, BAD WOLFOWITZ

Jason Vest, Village Voice

He bungled Iraq, the Pentagon, and East Timor. Look out,

World Bank -- here he comes.

http://www.alternet.org/story/21559/

 

WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINES

Molly M. Ginty, Women's eNews

With 240 female U.S. soldiers injured and 33 killed so far

in Iraq and Afghanistan, some military analysts are calling

for a review of U.S. policy on women in combat.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21557/

 

THE POLITICIZATION OF TERRI SCHIAVO

The Progress Report

A brain-damaged woman's tragic case is being used as an

opportunity for political grandstanding.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/21552/

 

BATTERED WOMEN

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Washington Monthly

Boxing has long existed in a cultural ghetto, revelling in

its corruption and violence. Women's boxing operates in a

further ghetto still, a brutal and hopeless sport.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/21554/

 

TWO YEARS AFTER THE WAR

Jill Carroll, Christian Science Monitor

An unrelenting insurgency, pervasive chaos, little

electricity or water, and widespread unemployment. After

two years of occupation, Iraq looks pretty much the same.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21558/

More War on Iraq: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/

 

UNDEMOCRATIC MEDIA OVERSEAS

Rory O'Connor, AlterNet

A new book argues that Japan has the least trustworthy media

in the democratic world -- and guess how it began.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21553/

More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/

 

 

 

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