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Posts tagged "public health"

Re-reversing the Chicago River

A century ago, Illinois reversed the flow of the Chicago River by building the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Now environmentalists would have us fill it back in Unable to convince the Army Corps of Engineers to shut down Chicago Waterway locks to keep Asian Carp out of the Great Lakes, some environmentalists are re-energizing another... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
June 9, 2010 at 2:14 pm
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Gay men can't give blood?

I didn’t know that until reading that a bunch of senators, including our own Dick Durbin and  Roland Burris, have asked the Food and Drug Administration to lift the ban. We’ll now have an outbreak of rhetoric like we years ago when we debated the right of privacy versus the common good.  According to the Philadelphia... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 11, 2010 at 12:56 pm
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