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Soon Almaty will have no water left
Almaty in the forthcoming year may have no water left, agency reports with reference to the newspaper "Express-K."
"The situation is that in some years on the top stores of many Almaty apartments houses there would be no water," the newspaper says.
The reason for this is a sharp deficit of water, which is already for several years is... (read more)
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ECOSOC Civil Society Forum on the Global Food Crisis
ECOSOC Civil Society Forum on the Global Food Crisis
Presentation by Vicente García-Delgado, CIVICUS’ Main Representative at the UN
I very much appreciate the opportunity to share with you a few reflections on the Global Food Crisis and its implications for global peace and security.
To John Holmes, UN Under Secretary General... (read more)
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The Situation of The Bahamian Youth in The Bahamas
A State of Crisis: Growing Problems Facing Youth:
By Sasha L. Lightbourne -
Nassau, Bahamas:
The country is in a state of crisis due to the situation of its youth, Chairman of the Juvenile Panel Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans asserted Wednesday night.
"The future is at risk and so we must look at solutions," said Magistrate Evans,... (read more)
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Watch For Change
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Woman jailed for smuggling baby
Nigerian woman has been jailed for 26 months for bringing a child illegally into the UK.
Peace Sandberg, who was living in the UK, went to Nigeria and bought a baby to become eligible for a council flat, Isleworth Court Court heard.
She was convicted last month of bringing a child illegally into the UK. She was reported to police after she... (read more)
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Bali Will Be A Test Of Leaders' Resolve
Ban Ki-moon, December 5, 2007
www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/bali-will-be-a-test-of-leaders-resolve/2007/12/04/1196530676912.html
We have read the science. Global warming is real, and we are a prime cause. We have heard the warnings. Unless we act, now, we face serious consequences. Polar ice will melt. Sea levels will rise. A third of our... (read more)
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At 60
Amidst the booming celebration of Israel's 60th birthday, very few outside the Arab World are turning their eyes towards the other commemorators who are just on the flip side. This is the time the world should also remember that 750,000 have fled or been expelled from this homes to create a space for the nascent Jewish state. Now more than 5... (read more)
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BLACK-on-BLACK
Slavery, Colonialism and Racism had emerged a tripartite phenomenon that the African has had to contend with over so many years. While formal slavery and colonialism have been laid to rest, the issue of racism, accompanied by its horrific experience of injustice to human dignity, continues to afflict the African, both on the continent and in the... (read more)
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el examen
¡gracias a dios que la examinación está acabada!! Era así que tensionada sobre él y él no era ése difícil. Pienso que puede ser que haya hecho mejor si señora Giles había contado una de sus chistes antes de la examinación. Espero que hacer bien. Tengo que obtener por lo menos cuatro y seré feliz. No contesté solamente que eran una... (read more)
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Conference opening: provocative notes
Hanna Hallin, the president of LSU , said in her welcome speech at the conference opening that we can be "provocative and constructive" over the course of this weekend. Well, let be me a bit provocative in my coverage of the first sessions of the conference and I'll hope that the organisers won't get angry with me (especially since I'm... (read more)
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Trouble in Kenya
There has been much trouble in Kenya in the past five months. After the presidential elections, there was a violence between the two political groups and the violence became ethnically charged. The two sides have reached a deal where President Mwai Kibaki will stay as current president and Raila Odinga will become the prime minister.
Members... (read more)
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Myanmar's junta
The official death toll from Cyclone Nargis has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the storm, Myanmar state television reported Friday. The United Nations, meanwhile, said that severe restrictions by Myanmar's military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of... (read more)
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ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS RUN OFF A GOOD IDEA
The world has leadership challenges all around. John maxwell leadership style and purpose driven approaches are good but each country and continent has its own challenges and own indigenous leaders who can face and handle them.
Mugabe has tried to bring independence but was overtaken by selfish interests and his time is gone.
Zimbabwe is... (read more)
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Tribute to a Japanese dancer of repute (Satis Shroff)
Tribute:
Anzu Furukawa and The Rite of Spring (Satis Shroff)
I’d often seen an outsized portrait of Anzu Furukawa in Wolfgang Graf’s home, and when we talked about Anzu and he said, “My own experience with Anzu came in 1999, during the San Francisco Buto Festival. I participated in her workshop and found her to be a... (read more)
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wat are we after?
The secret to kill a fly is in the technique; follow it with your eyes and you'll miss, follow it with your mind, and bamn!!! (read more)
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Education
Introduction
Inspired by Dr. H.S. Srivastava, Ex-Dean NCERT, in the beginning of year 2006, I decided to carry out some experiments on CCE in my school. Primary (1st to 5th) classes were selected for the same. Experiments are in progress. Following is a brief account of experiments and observations carried out during the past 8 months.... (read more)
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The success story of the 'book woman of India'
If anyone deserves the title 'The Book Woman of India,' it would be Hemu Ramaiah, the lady who revolutionised the book-buying and reading experience in India.
When she started the bookstore Landmark in Chennai in 1987 with Rs 12 lakh (Rs 1.2 million) and 18 employees, there was only one Higginbothams in Chennai. There was no Crosswords or... (read more)
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Globalisation
Fellows, all along I have believed that globalisation has never benefitted the African continent and has been praying that new modes of achieving this would be dully identified and implemented. For those of you that have had an economics lesson, you will concur with me that the dependency theory makes globalisation impossible.
Africa has the... (read more)
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New HIV/Aids Infections Still Rising
A new World Bank report launched today says African countries must continue to champion HIV prevention efforts to slow and reverse the rate of new HIV infections, and that HIV/AIDS will remain for the foreseeable future an unprecedented economic, social, and human challenge to sub-Saharan Africa. The region remains the global epicenter of the... (read more)
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th media and development
i was listening to the state broadcaster last night and i think politicians are abusing the role of the media in development. the state broadcaster has the role to be independent and inform the rural masses out there who depend entirely on the radio for all their news. most illiterate people will believe all that is said on radio as the gospel... (read more)
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Palestinian 60th anniversary catasrophe
'No Settlement can be just and complete if recognition is not accorded to the right of the Arab refugee to return to the home from which he has been dislodged… It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow... (read more)
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