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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
Guns in American homes are 22 times more likely to be used in deadly domestic disputes, suicides, or fatal accidents than in self-defense. Sources: Boston Globe editorial, 26 July 2001 Arthur Kellerman, et al, "Injuries and deaths due to firearms in the home," Journal of Trauma 45 (1998): 263-267.

Bush Plans 'Space Bomber': What the Bush Administration really has in mind for Star Wars Episode II (Ed Vuillamy, London Observer).
'You Could Sense the Venom and Hatred': Jailed Genoa protesters faced torture (Paul Harris, Nick Paton Walsh, Martin Bright and Rory Carroll, London Observer).
Censorship at the National Press Club: When Henry Kissinger spoke there, the moderator admittedly screened out any tough questions (Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Eat The State).
Raising the TemperatureCorporate power will not be given up voluntarily--mass action is needed (George Monbiot, The Guardian).
The Coffee Connection: The price of your morning cup of coffee is over a day's wage for its growers in Guatemala (Elizabeth Neuffer, Boston Globe).
Audacity on Trial: Talking union still amounts to a punishable offense in much of the Old South (JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation).
The Alchemy of OxyContin: How a prescription drug became the drug of choice on the streets of America (Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine).

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