What We've Found: Asian students boycott S. Philly High, Somalis protest militant group, Americans more skeptical of climate change, EPA finalizes ruling on greenhouse gases and activists in Phila. mourn friend's death from "inept health care"

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What We've Found: Asian students boycott S. Philly High, Somalis protest militant group, Americans more skeptical of climate change, EPA finalizes ruling on greenhouse gases and activists in Phila. mourn friend's death from "inept health care"

POSTED: Monday, December 7, 2009, 3:36 PM
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Julia Harte with your morning fix.

Thirty Asian students boycotted South Philadelphia High School by not showing up for class today, in protest of the high violence rate at their school and the perception that the school district isn't doing enough to combat it.

Hundreds of Somalis protested a deadly suicide attack last week at a graduation ceremony in Mogadishu, in the first major show of opposition to As-Shabab, the group widely believed to be behind the attacks and one of several militant groups vying for total control of the country.

New polls showed that Americans are becoming increasingly skeptical of man-made climate change and resistant to government regulations that would control it, even as President Obama joins other world leaders at the largest ever climate change summit in Copenhagen.

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized its ruling today that greenhouse gases threaten the environment and human health, opening the door to increased regulation on carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, factories, and other major sources.

Puerto Rican civil rights activists demonstrated yesterday outside the Northeast Philadelphia hospital where Joaquin Rivera died one week ago, calling for reform and increased regulation of "an inept health-care system."

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