Public Square
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Malaria Kills Millions Every Year in Africa
Malaria is one of the 21st century’s great plagues. It is responsible for anywhere from 1 to 3 million deaths per year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa ...
Posted Nov 25, 2009 9:02 PM by Joseph Robertson
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Medvedev Calls for Sweeping Democratic Change in Russia
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has called for sweeping political and economic reforms, designed to make Russia a modern, advanced democratic society. In his state of the nation address, Pres. Medvedev ...
Posted Nov 25, 2009 8:54 PM by Joseph Robertson
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Reform Watch: Senate Votes to Open Debate on Healthcare Legislation
For the first time in decades, the United States Senate has voted to open floor debate on comprehensive healthcare insurance reform legislation. All 58 Democratic members of the Senate, plus ...
Posted Nov 25, 2009 8:51 PM by Joseph Robertson
Energy & Ecology
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Water Resource Depletion Threatens Global Food Supply
Water resource depletion leads not only to chronic scarcity of clean, safe drinking water for increasing numbers of people, but means arable land is harder to cultivate and to maintain ...
Posted Nov 25, 2009 9:25 PM by Joseph Robertson
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Major Climate-linked Emissions Regulation Will Help Everyone Everywhere, including Business
Even as momentum gathers for major collaborative climate-linked emissions regulatory policy, aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions like carbon dioxide (CO2), some in industry remain convinced of an outdated ...
Posted Oct 27, 2009 8:39 AM by Joseph Robertson
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Glacial Melt in India Threat to Food & Water Security
NOW, with David Brancaccio, travels to the Indian Himalaya, to examine the problem of persistent accelerating ice melt which is speeding the erosion of glaciers that feed the Ganges River ...
Posted Nov 25, 2009 9:27 PM by Joseph Robertson
Fiction
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Something of this World
As a blue-fire sun came up over the sea, milky and iridescent, there was no sound, there were no motorized noises, the world was sleeping and nothing moved but ...
Posted Jun 23, 2009 2:48 PM by Joseph Robertson
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Faultlines Are Lifegivers
Intense heat, the suffocation of the great metropolis that stingily carries on not recognizing that it was made by human hands and minds for the benefit of human beings in ...
Posted Jun 23, 2009 9:40 AM by Joseph Robertson
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En español
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Naufragios edita edición de otoño 2009
La segunda edición de la revista Naufragios, del grupo Taller Literario Pinzón Nueve, de Villanova University, se estrenó esta semana. Recoge otra vez contribuciones de muchos países, en literatura, crítica ...
Posted Nov 9, 2009 9:16 PM by Joseph Robertson
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Avispa
el tiempo no esni la aurora ni el relojno es ni un combateni el amor en descensoel tiempo no es de fiarni es una corriente ...
Posted Nov 9, 2009 8:28 PM by Joseph Robertson
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La tortuga
siglos en esperabuscando utopíasinmensas cálidasdonde la sombra es soly el sol lluviade fértiles contingenciasun amor arquitectode mares sin fondo
Posted Jun 23, 2009 2:40 PM by Joseph Robertson
Human Behavior
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MSF Says DR Congo Military Fired on Civilians at 7 Vaccination Clinics
Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF/Doctors without Borders) is accusing the military of the Democratic Republic of Congo of firing on civilians at vaccination clinics it was running. MSF goes as ...
Posted Nov 10, 2009 6:04 PM by Joseph Robertson
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German Report from Night Berlin Wall Fell
This video is in German, with English subtitles. It shows the convergence of thousands at the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing, as news of the opening of the wall began to ...
Posted Nov 9, 2009 8:02 PM by Joseph Robertson
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There is No Button to Push, Thankfully
THE KNEE-JERK LOGIC OF 'LESS LETHAL WEAPONS' MAY POSE A SERIOUS THREAT TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF DEMOCRACYIt has been said in recent decades that leaders of nuclear ...
Posted Jun 29, 2009 8:19 AM by Joseph Robertson
Visions
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Gérmenes y obstáculos
Image copyright © 2007 Joseph Robertson
Posted Nov 12, 2009 2:48 PM by Joseph Robertson
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The Gift of Attention
Image copyright © Lainey Johr 2005
Posted Nov 12, 2009 2:48 PM by Joseph Robertson
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