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“How can this happen in the richest country in the Caribbean?” An incident in the Southland causes KnowProSE.com to wonder what Trinidad has come to.
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This week’s Arabic translation has good and bad news. On the good side is a pioneering scheme by Jordan to publish draft laws online and give people the chance to comment on them before being passed as legislation while on the bad are stories about more censorship and arrests of student activists in Egypt.
Jordan: Online [...]
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Belatedly, a link to the post on the 650th anniversary of the Charles Bridge in Prague and the primeval beech forests of the Carpathian - at NvB: Bored in Brno?.
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A top power company official defended safety standards at an earthquake-ravaged nuclear plant Wednesday, even as the company said a radioactive leak was bigger than first reported and the mayor ordered the plant be shut down until its safety could be confirmed.
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In Greek mythology singing of the Sirens were so sweet and melodic that sailors were lured into the sea and met fateful deaths. On July 07, or the date known better as 07.07.07, music and melodies were used by Maldivians as they pondered about the fate that sea level rise and climate change would bring [...]
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The top featured story at Sina blogs yesterday was the rodent invasion into the areas surrounding Dongting lake in southern Hunan province precipitated by flooding on the Yangtze river, and the resulting extermination campaign.
Among discussion were the reasons the rodent population has flourished in the south, as well as what’s being done with the corpses, [...]
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A hilarious post by positive solution on his day-to-day toxic life.
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It’s still excruciatingly hot in Morocco, making the heat a popular topic amongst the Anglophone blogoma. With temperatures often reaching 40 degrees Celsius and a serious dearth of air-conditioning, it seems many bloggers are suffering. Evelyn in Morocco, an expatriate in Fez, is struggling with modest dress during this heat wave:
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Last week it was noted that the Chinese government convinced the World Bank to remove the number of premature deaths—750,000—in China each year related to air and water pollution along with 30% of the report, ‘Cost of Pollution in China‘, allegedly on the grounds that the truth would fuel social unrest, later saying otherwise the [...]
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Paper consumption is increasing. Shirazi of chowrangi.com has an interesting article about computers and paper consumption . He argues that increasing use of computers and web publishing will result in the reduction of paper consumption and…
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To Each Its Own has photographs of the water logged situation in Mumbai over the weekend because of the rains.
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Researchers at the University of Utah and elsewhere have developed a new way to predict when vegetation dries to the point it is most vulnerable to large-scale fires in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles. And this year’s forecast says the highest-risk fire period will begin July 13 – weeks earlier than usual.
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