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MADISON, WI (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. acted appropriately by firing a Catholic pharmacist who refused to interact with patients seeking birth control prescriptions, a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge John Shabaz dismissed a lawsuit brought by Neil Noesen, who claimed he was fired last summer at a Wal-Mart store in Onalaska, WI out of religious discrimination. The lawsuit also named Medical Staffing Network, a staffing agency that placed Noesen at the store as a temporary pharmacist. Shabaz said Wal-Mart and Medical Staffing Network accommodated Noesen's religious opposition to contraception by having other pharmacists fill prescriptions. But he...

Robert Greenwald's latest documentary, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price," feels like a rushed, poorly edited film. That is understandable, considering the director assembled more than 800 "field producers" who, in a few months, fanned the country and also headed to Wal-Mart factories in Bangladesh, China and Honduras to collect stories of how the nation's largest retailer is undermining the American quality of life. He spliced dozens of those stories together, many with poor sound quality or shaky footage. But the voices of current and former Wal-Mart sales associates and managers bring to life the way that corporate dominance...