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Ralph Nader is a lawyer, consumer advocate, author and Presidential candidate from Winsted. After earning degrees from both Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Nader began work as a lawyer in Hartford. While working in Hartford, he also lectured at the University of Hartford. In 1964, Nader moved to Washington D.C. In 1980, Nader began creating a number of nonprofit organizations, including the Center for Study of Responsive Law, the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), the Center for Auto Safety, Public Citizen, Clean Water Action Project and the Disability Rights Center. In 2000, Nader ran in the presidential election as a third-party candidate. Many Democrats blamed Nader...
Ralph Nader is a lawyer, consumer advocate, author and Presidential candidate from Winsted. After earning degrees from both Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Nader began work as a lawyer in Hartford. While working in Hartford, he also lectured at the University of Hartford. In 1964, Nader moved to Washington D.C. In 1980, Nader began creating a number of nonprofit organizations, including the Center for Study of Responsive Law, the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), the Center for Auto Safety, Public Citizen, Clean Water Action Project and the Disability Rights Center. In 2000, Nader ran in the presidential election as a third-party candidate. Many Democrats blamed Nader for costing the election, which resulted in a George W. Bush victory by only 537 votes over Al Gore. On February 24, 2008, Nader announced 2008 presidential bid, naming former San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Matt Gonzalez as his running mate.
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Demise of a centrist nominee dream
That pop you may or may not have heard the other day was the bursting pipedream of a centrist presidential candidate outside the establishment parties. The organizers of a group calling itself Americans Elect decided to close shop after failing to find...
Tags: Regional Authority, Charles Elson Roemer, III, Government, Political Candidates, Politics
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Florida medical board ranks 42nd in U.S. for disciplining doctors
For the fourth year in a row, Florida ranked in the bottom 10 U.S. states for its record of punishing doctors who violate state standards, according to an annual survey by the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen. But for the first time in years, the...
Tags: American Medical Association, Health, Drugs and Medicines
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Review: 'Engines of Change' by Paul Ingrassia details key cars
It would be impossible to count the number of automotive makes and models that have come and gone since the car was first invented — or the number of books that have been written about them. The inescapable ubiquity of the automobile has made them,...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Politics, Science and Technology, Consumers, Vehicles
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Finding food on Time's '100 Most Influential' list
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Ernest Callenbach dies at 83; wrote environmental novel 'Ecotopia'
Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, a film scholar and environmentalist who created a cult favorite in "Ecotopia," a 1975 novel that predicted with uncanny accuracy a world where recycling is commonplace, food is locally grown and energy comes from the sun, died...Tags: New York City, Biology, Movies, Science, Newspaper and Magazine
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Don't let Americans Elect muddy the 2012 race
Are political centrists in America without a political home? Do we need a third-party presidential candidate to represent those socially progressive, fiscally austere voters who find our two parties too extreme? There's no disputing that the Republican...Tags: Democratic Party, Charles Elson Roemer, III, Barack Obama, Politics, The Washington Post
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The Third Way: Green party candidate courts progressives
You're going to hear it this election year, particularly if you hang around with liberal Democratic geeks: "You can't vote for a third party candidate, dammit, all that'll do is get Obama defeated and elect Romney (or Santorum or Gingrich)."
Jill Stein...Tags: Democratic Party, Justice and Rights, Barack Obama, Politics, Al Gore
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Liberals must stand with the president
Every week on the lecture trail, I meet progressives who are demoralized and/or infuriated by Barack Obama's performance as president. They insist that they will not work for him again or even vote for him. Many have signed petitions saying as much....Tags: Democratic Party, Bill Clinton, Planned Parenthood, Iraq, Barack Obama
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DUI's new enemy: robocars
Skynet has not become self-aware, but it's hard to escape the feeling that we're heading for a "Terminator"-like future in which intelligent machines start wanting to run the show, what with cellphones that can talk to us and websites that can peg our...
Tags: Research, Manufacturing and Engineering, Passenger Cars, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Should future cars curb drunk drivers?
Those who think we're already living in a nanny state probably aren't going to like the nanny cars of the future. Cars already sometimes behave like a nagging mom who's seemingly more concerned about our safety than we are -- hence the dashboard...
Tags: Research, Facebook, Alcohol Addiction, Government, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Alan Mark Silbergeld, consumer advocate
Alan Mark Silbergeld, a retired Consumer Union attorney and consumer advocate who was an aficionado of vocal music, died Friday of complications from lymphoma at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Homeland resident was 72. "He was a leading consumer advocate on...Tags: New York City, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment, College Sports, Commuting
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Anthony Shadid dies at 43; New York Times foreign correspondent
Reporting from New York -- Anthony Shadid, a journalist who gave voice to those muffled by the turmoil around them — from Iraqi families enveloped in civil war to young Libyans spurred to take up arms against a dictator — died while doing just...Tags: Bashar Assad, Democratic Party, Newspaper and Magazine, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Iraq
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