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Cost-Benefit Analysis

By Larry Beinhart

The war in Iraq has cost about $434,000,000,000 (four hundred and thirty-four billion dollars) to date. Albany County’s share of this is $597 million; Ulster County is $354 million. So far.

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Heavy Traffic

By Adair K. Fincher

Trafficking of human beings—the domestic or global transfer of people for cash, through deceit, exploitation, or force—is one of the most lucrative forms of international illegal trade, second only to drug smuggling.

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While You Were Sleeping: July

By Kelley Granger

The gist of what you may have missed.