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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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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: Services and Shopping, Politics, Consumers, Vehicles, Science and Technology
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Finding food on Time's '100 Most Influential' list
Daily DishTime's '100 Most Influential' list mentions only two chefs: Jose Andres and Rene Redzepi.... -
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: Clint Eastwood, Periodicals, University of Chicago, Science, Science and Technology
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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: Republican Party, Politics, Charles Elson Roemer, III, The Washington Post, Hillary Clinton
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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: Restaurant and Catering Industry, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Research, Criminals, Automotive Equipment
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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: Politics, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Alcohol Addiction, National Government, Research
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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: The Washington Post, Iraq War (2003-2011), Asthma, Twitter, Inc., Arts
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Huntsman, projected to finish third, says onward to South Carolina
Tuesday delivered disappointment to Jon Huntsman, who stakes his presidential bid on this state and came in third in the first-in-the-nation primary.
Huntsman, who for most of the year was doing so poorly in the polls that he described himself as the...Tags: Republican Party, Dining and Drinking, Politics, Regional Authority, Mitt Romney
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Americans Elect seeks to upend primary system
County registrar offices across California on Thursday will begin receiving the product of an audacious enterprise — nearly 1.6 million signatures collected by Americans Elect, a group attempting to ride exasperation with the nation's political...Tags: Republican Party, Hillary Clinton, Referenda, Human Interest, FBI
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Ray C. Anderson dies at 77; carpet tile mogul
In the summer of 1994, carpet-tile mogul Ray C. Anderson made a sobering discovery: Although his billion-dollar business was the biggest of its kind in the world, everything about it was wrong.
That realization came after reading "The Ecology of...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Natural Resources, Harvard University, Science and Technology, Human Interest
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Airports: Are we any safer?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOn May 1, 1961, Inez Harlow flew into the history books. The 23-year-old flight attendant had been suspicious of the slim passenger from the moment he boarded the National Airlines Convair CV-440 in Miami. "He had dark glasses on, his collar up,...Tags: Crimes, Crisis, Defense, Trips and Vacations, Guerrilla Activity
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