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Microfinance is touted as the big thing that can alleviate rural poverty. I personally believe, like a lot of others, that it is surely one of the means for the same. It is one of those things which gives us hope. Businessworld has been covering microfinance for a while now and I […]
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The judge told them: “You have betrayed this country that has given you every opportunity.”
Five men have been jailed for life for a UK bomb plot linked to al-Qa-eda that could have killed hundreds of people.
Jurors in the year-long Old Bailey trial heard of plans to target a shopping centre, nightclub and the gas network […]
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See my colleague Cassandra Clifford’s recent two articles on Children and Climate Change. These, along with the rest of her material, are hard hitting. Start here.Â
Read more at Bill Hewitt
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I talked about the depth and the intensity of the activity on renewable energy these days in my post from April 5. Here are some notes from recent news stories and elsewhere that highlight this theme.
PepsiCo – “PepsiCo makes big renewable energy buy†reads the headline from BusinessWeek. “The company’s three-year purchase is made up […]
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For those who haven’t heard, Surrey made a world record 496 in 50 overs at the Oval the other day. Of the six Browncap batsmen who took to the crease, none of them managed a strike rate lower than 100, with James Benning smashing 152 off a gluttonous 134 balls at 113.43, while Rikki Clarke […]
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All of the predicted catastrophic consequences of climate change are happening already, though not yet ramped up to their full potential for death and destruction. We are already witnessing the world’s first climate change war in Darfur, Sudan [more | more2]; and the first continental scale emergency in Australia’s “big dry” drought. It has been […]
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Another well known poem from Zehra Nigah (again) with a translation by Rakshanda Jalil:
Complete poem here >>
Read more at Raza Rumi
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Hitchens skewers Tenet. We join the action on 9-11:
“This has bin Laden all over it,” Tenet told Boren…”I wonder,” Tenet said, “if it has anything to do with this guy taking pilot training.”…
Notice the direct quotes that make it clear who is the author of this brilliant insight. And then pause for a second. […]
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The Telegraph says the “stakes are high” when our men kill the enemy, because killing the civilians who are sometimes among the enemy can be an effective recruiting tool:
As the boat reached the shore, Captain Larry Staley tilted the nose of the lead Apache gunship downwards into a dive. One of the men turned to […]
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“I would like to sleep on my future as a coach. It’s what I do best, what I try to do best. I’m not going to throw away coaching just like that” - Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer following Pakistan’s shock first-round exit on March 17.
“Robert Andrew Woolmer has passed away today and the […]
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One day cricket is all about fours and sixes. Working on this principle, English county Surrey posted a mammoth total of 496 in 50 overs. Yes, you heard it right. Nearly 500 run in 50 overs with a run rate of 10 per over. After posting such a huge total, they bowled out Gloucestershire for […]
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The last CCTV footage of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer shows that he was with two other persons in the Jamaican hotel lobby on the night of his murder.
The former England player was found dead in his hotel room on March 18, a day after Pakistan’s shocking exit from the World Cup and his […]
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