Mexican tobacco growers: Economically shunned by industry, still used as lobbyists

By Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

Big Tobacco cultivates more people, less land, in Mexico

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"… longer profitable to produce tobacco in Mexico," says Horacio Mackinlay, a researcher at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City, who has followed …"

Do Trump's assertions about Obama's birthplace add up?

By FactCheck.Org

Donald Trump renews unsubstantiated claims about whether President Obama was really born in the United States

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"… rds of his birth, including "how much my parents paid for the doctor." Our researcher Michael Morse asked a hospital spokesman about that. What he was told is t …"

Back to school for the billionaires

By Rita Beamish

Business titans find reforming schools much harder than just writing checks

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"… may decrease student achievement, especially in larger schools,” Harvard researcher Roland G. Fryer concluded recently after analyzing New York’s flirtation …"

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Report: Car loans include billions in undisclosed charges

By Keith Epstein

Beyond regulation, auto lenders charge billions in hidden rate markups

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"… self-imposed cap of 2.5 percent on hidden markups,” says Delvin Davis, a researcher at the Center for Responsible Lending, “the added interest on that loan …"

The ‘clean coal’ lobbying blitz

By Marianne Lavelle

They’ve brought coal above ground. They’ve put the black rock on billboards in the swing states, and they’ve splashed it on full-page ads i

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"… onents are commercial today,” says Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Howard Herzog. But no one has put the parts together in a coal-fired elect …"

Chamber of Commerce flowchart linked to former insurance industry lobbyist

By Joe Eaton

Free-market cheerleaders have long relied on the flowchart to push their notion that government intervention makes a hash of things. Republi

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"… work. “I registered out of an abundance of caution.”Avram Goldstein, a researcher for the advocacy group Health Care for America Now, was not surprised at t …"

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Exporting an epidemic

By Jim Morris

Human toll reaches millions as asbestos industry expands worldwide

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"… m asbestosis, a non-cancerous, chronic lung disease. Another study, by two researchers in New Delhi, suggests that by 2020, deaths from asbestos-related cancers …"

"… sed safely. It is clearly a carcinogen. It kills people.”Industry-funded researchers have mounted a prolific response, placing into the scientific literature …"

"… n. Documents obtained under Canada’s Access to Information Act by Ottawa researcher Ken Rubin indicate that the industry gave more than $18 million to the ins …"

"… tical perspective comes from Dr. Guadalupe Aguilar Madrid, a physician and researcher at the Mexican Social Security Institute, which oversees public health und …"

How the spin doctors talked up tobacco as thousands died

By Bill Birnbauer

AUSTRALIA, April 25, 2002 — Cigarette companies knew as early as the 1950s that they would need a healthy image to protect their profits. So

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"… ey would need a healthy image to protect their profits. Soon after British researcher Sir Richard Doll linked smoking with lung cancer in 1950, tobacco companie …"

Part III: Bluefin, Inc.

By Marina Walker Guevara and Martin Foster

Mount Fuji rises across the bay from the 16th century port of Shimizu — a sight fit for a post card. The town has seen better days — its bus

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"… ort, alleging it contained “commercially sensitive information.” Every researcher who took part in its drafting was required to sign a nondisclosure agreeme …"

ATF allegations, anger spread through Mexico

By Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

Revelations in a story from the Center about ATF's controversial Fast and Furious operation have sparked demands for investigations in Mexic

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"… gether — as the beginning of collaboration,” said José Maria Ramos, a researcher at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, in the border city of Tijuana. Last y …"

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