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One Year After Storm, Myanmar Opens a Bit - 0 views

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One Year After Storm, Myanmar Opens a Bit New York Times, The (NY) - Friday, May 1, 2009 Author: THE NEW YORK TIMES Abstract: Life in Myanmar has settled back into some of its familiar rhythms after cyclone Nargis struck in May 2008; United Nations officials, aid workers and foreign diplomats in Myanmar say that since storm increase in humanitarian aid may have opened breach in hard political wall around country; junta now readily accepts air shipments of foreign aid, even from West; map; photo (M)
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Hans Rosling | Profile on TED.com - 0 views

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Even the most worldly and well-traveled among us will have their perspectives shifted by Hans Rosling. A professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world, which (he points out) is no longer worlds away from the west. In fact, most of the third world is on the same trajectory toward health and prosperity, and many countries are moving twice as fast as the west did.What sets Rosling apart isn't just his apt observations of broad social and economic trends, but the stunning way he presents them. Guaranteed: You've never seen data presented like this. By any logic, a presentation that tracks global health and poverty trends should be, in a word: boring. But in Rosling's hands, data sings. Trends come to life. And the big picture — usually hazy at best — snaps into sharp focus.
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Katie Day on 03 May 10

Great video talks on poverty -- and great data visualizations

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Great video talks on poverty -- and great data visualizations</div>

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Instant Architecture for China's Earthquake Victims - 0 views

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This May, a massive earthquake rocked Sichuan Province in China. Reaching a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale, it claimed the lives of 400,000 people. Half a year later, though the destruction seems to have lost its newsworthiness, the reconstruction is still very much a reality. However, it doesn’t have to be hopeless! How about a temporary shelter made of paper? In Chengdu city in Sichuan, students from Japanese banlab, architect Shigeru Ban’s research center, and the Hironori Matsubara Lab at Keio University used cardboard tubes to build temporary school buildings. Today, PingMag talks with Wataru Doi, the director of this student project, about the role of architecture after disasters.
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Environment: Solar plants in deserts could yield water and crops | Environment | The Gu... - 0 views

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Vast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts, under an ambitious proposal from a team of architects and engineers. The Sahara Forest Project, which is already running demonstration plants in Tenerife, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, envisages huge greenhouses with concentrated solar power (CSP), a technology that uses mirrors to focus the sun's rays, creating steam to drive turbines to generate electricity.
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Katie Day on 03 May 10

"Vast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts, under an ambitious proposal from a team of architects and engineers. The Sahara Forest Project, which is already running demonstration plants in Tenerife, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, envisages huge greenhouses with concentrated solar power (CSP), a technology that uses mirrors to focus the sun's rays, creating steam to drive turbines to generate electricity. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Vast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts, under an ambitious proposal from a team of architects and engineers. The Sahara Forest Project, which is already running demonstration plants in Tenerife, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, envisages huge greenhouses with concentrated solar power (CSP), a technology that uses mirrors to focus the sun's rays, creating steam to drive turbines to generate electricity. "</div>

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Sierra Leone - 0 views

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Shaian R on 25 Apr 10

"U.S. Department of State - Great Seal U.S. Department of State * Blog * Video * Photos * News * Share * Contact Us * Skip Navigation * Secretary Clinton o Remarks o Travel o Photos o Biography o More... * Media Center o Daily Press Briefings o Press Releases & Special Briefings o Remarks, Testimony by Senior Officials o Op-Eds by Department Officials o Policy Issues o Foreign Press Center o State @ Work o Ask the Department o Video o DipNote Blog o Photo Gallery o Email Subscriptions o RSS News Feeds o More... * Travel o Passports o Visas o Travel Information o Emergency Services o Intercountry Adoption o Parental Child Abduction o Foreign Per Diem Rates o More... * Careers o Foreign Service Officer o Civil Service Officer o Foreign Service Specialist o Civilian Response Corps o Student Programs o International Organizations o USAJobs: Working for America o More... * Business o Business Support: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) o Global Partnership Initiative o Commercial and Business Affairs Office o Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts o Trade Policy and Programs o Country Commercial Guides o Defense Trade Controls o Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization o Guide To Doing Business o Recovery and Reinvestment Act o More... * Youth and Education o Student Website o Diplomatic History o Virtual Student Foreign Service o Exchange Visitor Program o Fulbright Program o Student Career Programs

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"U.S. Department of State - Great Seal U.S. Department of State * Blog * Video * Photos * News * Share * Contact Us * Skip Navigation * Secretary Clinton o Remarks o Travel o Photos o Biography o More... * Media Center o Daily Press Briefings o Press Releases & Special Briefings o Remarks, Testimony by Senior Officials o Op-Eds by Department Officials o Policy Issues o Foreign Press Center o State @ Work o Ask the Department o Video o DipNote Blog o Photo Gallery o Email Subscriptions o RSS News Feeds o More... * Travel o Passports o Visas o Travel Information o Emergency Services o Intercountry Adoption o Parental Child Abduction o Foreign Per Diem Rates o More... * Careers o Foreign Service Officer o Civil Service Officer o Foreign Service Specialist o Civilian Response Corps o Student Programs o International Organizations o USAJobs: Working for America o More... * Business o Business Support: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) o Global Partnership Initiative o Commercial and Business Affairs Office o Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts o Trade Policy and Programs o Country Commercial Guides o Defense Trade Controls o Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization o Guide To Doing Business o Recovery and Reinvestment Act o More... * Youth and Education o Student Website o Diplomatic History o Virtual Student Foreign Service o Exchange Visitor Program o Fulbright Program o Student Career Programs </div>

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Sierra Leone: Child Soldiers - 0 views

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Shaian R on 25 Apr 10

"While in Sierra Leone a couple of summers ago, I visited Grafton Camp, a facility for recently demobilized child soldiers operated by UNICEF and local partners. Many of the boys, ranging from nine to 16 years of age, had killed people as they fought in a civil war that paused with a fragile cease-fire in 1995. The camp director said that when the youths had been given drugs-most likely, amphetamines-while soldiering, they "would do just about anything that was ordered." Some, he added, were proud of having been effective killers. These boys, who had shortly before been willing to kill and who had never received an adequate foundation of moral development, danced with enormous energy and played cooperative games under the supervision of the camp's counselors. As I watched, it was sobering to think that under certain conditions, practically any child could be changed into a killer. But today, it is even more sobering to see once again how easily children who have been denied education and trained for fighting are manipulated by local political leaders. Fighting has resumed in Sierra Leone following a May coup, and many of the combatants are under 18. They have become part of a continuing cycle of violence. A soldier at seven The nature of armed conflict has changed greatly in recent years. The end of the Cold War ushered in an era of ethnopolitical conflicts that are seldom fought on well-defined battlefields. Conflicts are increasingly internal, and they are characterized by butchery; violence against women, and atrocities sometimes committed by former neighbors. More than 80 percent of the victims are noncombatants, mostly women and children. Increasingly children serve as combatants or as cooks, informants, porters, bodyguards, sentries, and spies. Many child soldiers belong to organized military units, wear uniforms, and receive explicit training, their lethality enhanced by the widespread availability of lightweight assault weapons. Other children participa

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"While in Sierra Leone a couple of summers ago, I visited Grafton Camp, a facility for recently demobilized child soldiers operated by UNICEF and local partners. Many of the boys, ranging from nine to 16 years of age, had killed people as they fought in a civil war that paused with a fragile cease-fire in 1995. The camp director said that when the youths had been given drugs-most likely, amphetamines-while soldiering, they "would do just about anything that was ordered." Some, he added, were proud of having been effective killers. These boys, who had shortly before been willing to kill and who had never received an adequate foundation of moral development, danced with enormous energy and played cooperative games under the supervision of the camp's counselors. As I watched, it was sobering to think that under certain conditions, practically any child could be changed into a killer. But today, it is even more sobering to see once again how easily children who have been denied education and trained for fighting are manipulated by local political leaders. Fighting has resumed in Sierra Leone following a May coup, and many of the combatants are under 18. They have become part of a continuing cycle of violence. A soldier at seven The nature of armed conflict has changed greatly in recent years. The end of the Cold War ushered in an era of ethnopolitical conflicts that are seldom fought on well-defined battlefields. Conflicts are increasingly internal, and they are characterized by butchery; violence against women, and atrocities sometimes committed by former neighbors. More than 80 percent of the victims are noncombatants, mostly women and children. Increasingly children serve as combatants or as cooks, informants, porters, bodyguards, sentries, and spies. Many child soldiers belong to organized military units, wear uniforms, and receive explicit training, their lethality enhanced by the widespread availability of lightweight assault weapons. Other children participa</div>

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