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Jeff Kern

Neighbors Kill Neighbors in Kenya as Election Tensions Stir Age-Old Grievances - NYTime... - 0 views

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    There have been vicious ethnic clashes in Kenya. This is due to the current election stirring old feuds. Many people on opposite sides live as neighbors. 
jessica Friday

A Conversation With the Man Who Tweets Revolutions - On The Media - 0 views

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    A very interesting interview with Andy Carvin, the NPR strategist who tweeted and re-tweeted stories about the Arab Spring.  He discusses issues of journalistic integrity, news in the age of social media, and shares a powerful story of an individual who used social media to create manuals for use by rebels in Libya.
Isabel Sefton

Rwandan Refugees Caught 'Between Two Deaths' - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    In Rwanda many people are dying from thirst and cholera. A few years ago, American soldiers started to set up the first water filtration system in Goma. The filtration system will help to slow the growing numbers with cholera. 
Jake Snead

Nearly 100 Rebels Are Reported Killed in Mali Battle - 1 views

sub-saharan_africa news

started by Jake Snead on 25 Feb 13 no follow-up yet
Matthew Cherry

U.S. Sends Limited Troops To Niger; Will Assist In Intelligence-Gathering : The Two-Way... - 0 views

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    Around 100 U.S troops have arrived in Niger. These troops are stationed in Niger to aid the French surveillance effort in subjugating Islamic militia. However, the Malian Islams have become exceedingly adept at avoiding espionage; they have succeeded in avoiding French warplanes by disappearing into Mali away from towns.
jessica Friday

China wages a quiet war of maps with its neighbors - The Washington Post - 1 views

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    This article relates to our "cartographic aggression" discussion.  China is redrawing maps to include disputed territories within its boundaries.
jessica Friday

Stone Age Stew? Soup Making May Be Older Than We'd Thought : The Salt : NPR - 0 views

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    Interesting news story that presents evidence for the advent of soup prior to the Neolithic Revolution (10,000 y.a.).  This artifact seems to suggest that humans had developed means of cooking much earlier than previously thought.
jessica Friday

The World is Flat 3.0 | MIT Video - 0 views

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    In this lecture at MIT, Thomas Friedman, author of "The World is Flat," describes the forces that have brought about our globalized society.
jessica Friday

Watch The Full Program | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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    Frontline episode examining the impact of digital technology on our lives.
jessica Friday

North Korea 'dream' video shows U.S. city under missile attack | The Lookout - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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    Bizzarre (& scary "commercial) from North Korea implying that a major US city will be victimized by a rocket attack.
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