City Pulse - Week of October 30, 2002

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INSIDE : THE CALENDAR
Your guide to November's Arts & Entertainment, lectures and other cultural events, organizational meetings, self-help groups, and more.

The case against the war
By DANIEL STURM

In 2003, the United States will spend about $400 billion on national defense (more than the next 15 largest national militaries combined), and its economy will be twice as large as its closest rival, Japan. In the history of humanity, no other nation has exerted so much military and economic power.
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Money, school issues surface in Bernero/DeWeese race
As the Nov. 5 election nears, a couple of stories have surfaced late in the competitive 23rd Senate District race between state Reps. Virg Bernero (D-Lansing) and Paul DeWeese (R-Williamston).
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The case of the disappearing bug
Don’t bother looking for the union label on two local political billboards. It’s gone – or, more precisely, covered up.
The union “bug” – a trademark that means the material was printed by a union shop – was on the billboards for Lansing City Council candidate Brian Jeffries and Circuit Court candidate Beverley Nettles-Nickerson.
Now it’s covered up by black paper.
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Coping with a brain injury like ‘fighting an invisible enemy’
Dr. Claudia Osborn was a practicing physician in Detroit until her career abruptly ended after sustaining a traumatic brain injury when a car struck her while on her bike 14 years ago.
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Monks’ visit hopefully will raise awareness about Tibet
Everyone knows about karma. “What goes around comes around,” as it’s roughly translated.
Far fewer people know about a situation halfway around the world, in the secluded Himalayan country of Tibet, where followers of Buddhism have faced fierce religious persecution, brutal human-rights violations and the obliteration of their culture for more than 50 years.
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