"We tend to think that downtowns should be dynamic, and we expect that. But we seem to have an expectation that the suburbs should somehow remain frozen in whatever adolescent form they were first given birth to. It's time to let them grow up." Continue Reading →
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Bhopal gas victims still searching for justice after 25 years
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Activists cite a double standard in the U.S. response to Gulf Oil Spill versus the U.S. response to Union Carbide's Bhopal Disaster, which killed up up 23,000 people. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, Environment, Featured, World, Environment, Environment & Health, India, News You Might Have Missed
Garment workers launch labor-friendly line
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Former garment workers in Thailand and Argentina have joined forces to launch an anti-slave labor clothing line called No Chains. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, Featured, World, Labor, Latin America, Thailand, Women's Rights
Southeast Asia dolphins near extinction
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A rare breed of dolphins in Southeast Asia is on the brink of extinction, according to a conservation group. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Environment, Featured, World, Cambodia, dolpins, Mekong River
Bol’s fatal skin disease baffling, excrutiating
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Former NBA star Manute Bol, the 7-foot-7 Sudanese tribesman who died at 47 on June 19, succumbed to kidney failure and a baffling, deadly skin disease called Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Featured, Public Health, World, Africa, News You Might Have Missed, Sudan
Slang constitution attempts to popularize Kenyan law
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In an effort to familiarize young voters with Kenya's draft constitution, a website has translated the document into the slang language Sheng. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, World, Africa, Elections, News You Might Have Missed, Technology
Manute Bol, freedom fighter, is dead at 47
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Manute Bol is dead, and the world has lost one of the most iconoclastic freedom fighters in modern times. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, Featured, World, Africa, Darfur, Sudan
Brazil bill could grant rights to ‘unborn’
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A current Brazilian bill could amplify the nation's already stringent abortion restrictions. The "fetal rights" measure gives "absolute priority" to fetuses and extends constitutional rights to the "unborn." Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, Featured, Public Health, World, Elections, Latin America, News You Might Have Missed, Public Health
In Moscow, put a damper on slaughtering sheep in courtyards, OK?
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When in Moscow, do as the Muscovites do. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, Featured, World, Immigration, News You Might Have Missed, Russia
Niger Delta oil spills dwarf BP, Exxon Valdez catastrophes
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Thousands of spills across decades have ravaged the Niger Delta region. Continue Reading →