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“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.”
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.
Former garment workers in Thailand and Argentina have joined forces to launch an anti-slave labor clothing line called No Chains.
A rare breed of dolphins in Southeast Asia is on the brink of extinction, according to a conservation group.
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.
In an effort to familiarize young voters with Kenya’s draft constitution, a website has translated the document into the slang language Sheng.
Manute Bol is dead, and the world has lost one of the most iconoclastic freedom fighters in modern times.
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.”
When in Moscow, do as the Muscovites do.
Thousands of spills across decades have ravaged the Niger Delta region.