http://www.greenchange.org/ Green Change is a community of people with Green values: justice, grassroots democracy, sustainability and non-violence. http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2599 The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged. 2008-05-14 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2600 The difference in death rates between highly educated and poorly educated people in the United States is very wide and growing wider, according to new research. 2008-05-14 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2601 "Their case was only based on evidence derived from torture," said Army Lt. Col. Bryan Broyles, who represents Qahtani. "In six-plus years, the evidence comes down to what they beat out of him. The prosecution evidence was entirely unreliable and inadmissible." 2008-05-14 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2602 "It won't do." That was our bottom line in 1984 when Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York, Democratic vice presidential candidate, balked at releasing her husband's income tax returns. 2008-05-14 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2603 Teach for America, the program that recruits top college graduates to teach for two years in public schools that are difficult to staff, has experienced a year of prodigious growth and will place 3,700 new teachers this fall, up from 2,900 last year, a 28 percent increase. 2008-05-14 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2604 What can $100 million buy you in Congress? If you're agribusiness, such money spent this past year on lobbying and campaign donations will harvest billions in farm subsidies and keep you in clover for another five years. 2008-05-14 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2605 Just how green should you feel driving the new Chevy Tahoe hybrid sport utility vehicle? 2008-05-14 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2597 Americans are gloomier about the direction of the country than they have been at any point in 15 years, and Democrats hold their biggest advantage since early 1993 as the party better able to deal with the nation's main problems, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. 2008-05-13 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2595 Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are talking more about "clean coal" and less about global warming as they woo voters in West Virginia and Kentucky -- two states that sit at the heart of the nation's coal economy. 2008-05-13 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2596 2008-05-13 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2598 Some public health experts are questioning why menthol, the most widely used cigarette flavoring and the most popular cigarette choice of African-American smokers, is receiving special protection as Congress tries to regulate tobacco for the first time. 2008-05-13 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2590 A new generation of nuclear power plants is on the drawing boards in the U.S., but the projected cost is causing some sticker shock: $5 billion to $12 billion a plant, double to quadruple earlier rough estimates. 2008-05-12 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2591 The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after the Sept. 11 attacks. 2008-05-12 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2592 Reagan's enduring legacy shows the power a president has in shaping the law — not just at the Supreme Court, which gets so much attention, but also in the midlevel appeals courts. 2008-05-12 http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=2593 At least 40 developing countries have recently approached U.N. officials to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs, a trend that cexperts say could provide the building blocks of nuclear arsenals in some of those nations. 2008-05-12