Archive - Aug 24, 2006

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PLAN B APPROVED
The US Food and Drug Administration today approved the over-the-counter sale of Plan B emergency contraceptive pills to women 18 and older. The drug can prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. Rebecca Myles reports.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is paying a visit to the rural Texas county of Willacy. He’s there to hale the opening of 500 new beds in an immigrant detention facility. The new beds, which are already at full capacity, are in tent domes built by private contractor Hale Mills. As Leigh Ann Caldwell reports, prison expansions add up to business for the prison industry.

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Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca is in its third month of a political crisis. A broad social movement, sparked by a public school teachers' strike over wages, has been pushing for the resignation if Governor Ulises Ruiz. Various elements of that movement have shut down highways, taken over five radio stations, burned more than a dozen buses, blocked off the city's historic center, seized government offices, and blockaded some tourists in their hotels. Governor Ruiz has so far refused to leave office, and the federal government, distracted by continuing controversy over the presidential election, has largely stayed out of the conflict.

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A developer’s proposal to build a massive complex in New York is stirring controversy there. Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Development Plan would bring 16 skyscrapers and a 19000-seat basketball arena to 22 acres in Brooklyn, possibly creating the most densely populated area in all of North America and Europe. The Empire State Development Corporation held a mandatory public hearing to discuss the proposal. Joshua Smith was there:

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