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  NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * February 13, 2008 * Vol. 7, No. 7

  Important but overlooked news from around the world.
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QUOTED:

    "The governments, frankly, in both countries are so heavily aligned
    with, particularly, the chemical industry, that the word amongst
    the bureaucracies is that they really do not want any evidence of
    effect or injury to be allowed out there."

    -- Canadian biologist Michael Gilbertson on a new U.S. government
    report on Great Lakes pollution (see "Top Stories," below).

CONTENTS:

    *Top Stories*
      Great Lakes toxics data suppressed?
      New York targets nonprofit fraud
      Housing crash takes down renters, too

    *Economy & Labor*
      Shoemakers walking away from South China

    *Media*
      Black and white and read all over ... in Asia, anyway

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  TOP STORIES
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  > Great Lakes Toxics Data Suppressed?

    Millions of people in the Great Lakes region may face health
    problems from pollution, but a study on the risk is under wraps
    seven months after its conclusion, and the scientist who led
    the project has been demoted.

    The Center for Public Integrity reports that Dr. Christopher De
    Rosa, a federal toxicology researcher, told his superior that
    delays in releasing the report has the "appearance of censorship
    of science ... "

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004555.html

  > New York Targets Nonprofit Fraud

    New York City investigators are looking into more than 30 cases of
    potential nonprofit fraud, the New York Post reports.

    The investigations follow a 2006 scandal at the Gloria Wise Boys
    and Girls Club, in which two executives confessed to
    misappropriating $1.2 million.

    The new inquiry will review $3.8 billion in 2007 city contracts
    with nonprofit ...

    GET THE WHOLE STORY:

    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004554.html

  > Housing Crash Takes Down Renters, Too

    Among the 11,000 San Francisco Bay Area homes repossessed in 2007
    is a hidden statistic -- the number of renters quickly evicted
    following their landlords' fall from grace.

    No one knows how many renters have been shown the door, but the
    San Francisco Chronicle reports that the number is "high."

    One housing counselor told the newspaper that it has become a
    "common problem," while the Oakland city attorney's office
    has heard "a ton of anecdotes" about ...

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004553.html

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  ECONOMY & LABOR
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  > Shoemakers Walking Away from South China

    More than 1,000 shoe factories in southern China have closed in
    the past year -- half of them just in the past 12 weeks --
    and many more will be shutting down in the coming months,
    according to news reports.

    Hong Kong's Asia Times reports that about 10,000 factories of
    different types are expected to close in the region this month,
    as wages increase and environmental and employment regulations
    tighten.

    About half the companies leaving Guangdong are moving to ...

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004552.html

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  MEDIA
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  > Black and White and Read All Over ... in Asia, Anyway

    Newspapers in the United States may be shrinking, losing
    circulation and laying off employees at an alarming rate, but
    times have never been better for the daily press in Asia.

    Seven of the 10 best-selling daily newspapers worldwide are in
    Asia, according to a Yahoo News story, and circulation there
    rose 3.6 percent in 2006, compared to a two percent drop in
    the United States.

    "The media has never been as powerful, or as pervasive, as it
    is in Asia right now ..."

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    http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004551.html

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Editors: Josh Wilson, Will Crain
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