The justices overturn a century of U.S. electoral law by a 5-4 vote. Millions of extra dollars are expected to start flowing from big business to this fall's races, much of it benefiting Republican candidates.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/22/nation/la-na-campaign-finance22-2010jan22

Israel is planning to demolish 'illegal' solar panels that are the only source of electricity for Palestinians in West Bank villages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/mar/14/palestinians-prepare-to-lose-solar-panels

One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s.
9 March 2012, 02:44 GMT, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17297714

Abuse of the environment has created an 'absolutely unprecedented' emergency, say Blue Planet prizewinners

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/20/climate-change-overconsumption?intcmp=122

Workers at a Walmart warehouse in the Inland Empire in Southern California were sometimes paid as little as $3 to $4 an hour, according to former crew leader Jorge Soto, who says he was ordered to falsify employees' time sheets to cheat them out of fair pay.
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