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• Pill does not cure gender inequality

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 534
  There’s a very illuminating leader in The Lancet last week about maternal mortality and the fact that despite sustained global campaigning efforts there has been little progress on the Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal deaths by 75% by 2015. The article makes some good suggestions for why this has ...
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• My good deeds trump your history

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 534
  Martin posted a link to a debate here . The motion of the debate was "The Catholic church is a force for good in the world". In favour of the motion; Ann Widdecombe and Archbishop Onaiyekan. Against the motion; Christopher Hitchens and Steven Fry. When youre up against Hitchens in a debate about religion, you can ...
  8 hours ago

• Fry/Hitchens on Catholic Church

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 534
  Recently, Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens took on Anne Widdecombe and Archbishop John Onaiyekan (of Abuja, Nigria) in an Intelligence Squared debate on the statement: "The Catholic church is a force for good in the world." Here is the video (Hat tip: Pod Black ). __________________ Martin is the editor of ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  2 days ago

• Al Gore on climate change and rural-urban difference

  
  Legal Ruralism — Authority: 130
  Listen here to an interview with Al Gore on NPRs "All Things Considered." Several references are made to rural-urban difference with respect to climate change.
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• The Economic Gap Between Ethiopian Co-operatives, Coffee Farmers, and Large-scale Multinationals

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 597
  The American dream has expanded. In addition to the white picket fence, two cars in every driveway, and a 401k in every retirement plan, we have now added to the mix. A part of the ideal existence is the obsessive infatuation with personalizing everything. We personalize the colors of our laptops and ultra thin ...
  3 days ago

• US High Speed Rail Is A National Embarrassment. A Global Comparison

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  The first series of this column was written on high speed rail in America . With an introduction to all the nation’s proposed corridors covered, this series will focus on the state of high speed rail around the world. An examination of already established high speed networks in industrialized countries and ...
  4 days ago

• Fiji: Reality, brand, mirage

  
  ...My heart's in Accra — Authority: 637
  What do you know about Fiji? Before getting involved with Global Voices, I knew that it was an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific much beloved by vacationers and honeymooners and that, despite being an island nation surrounded by seawater, they export a lot of high-priced bottled water. As I’ve ...
  6 days ago

• Coping With Climate Change: Which Societies Will Do Best?

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  As the world warms, how different societies fare in dealing with rising seas and changing weather patterns will have as much to do with political, social, and economic factors as with a changing climate. Following the disastrous tsunami of December 2004, the government of Bangladesh embraced upgraded storm-alert ...
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• MultiCat Program to offer developing countries a risk transfer alternative

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 125
  The World Banks MultiCat Program has received a lot of coverage across the non-trade press and is rightly exciting finance ministers of developing countries. The hope is that it will open up the catastrophe bond market which has previously been difficult for them to access. There’s much talk about who will be the ...
  1 week ago

• Developing World: model of cost-effective medical practices that deliver good results

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  Developing countries such as those in Africa serve as a showcase of how ‘cost-effective medical practices deployed in poor nations deliver good results.’ The strategies hope to be replicated in rich countries such as the US. One example is “Project Connect,” a program used in AIDS clinics in Zambia, now being ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• Afghanistan: Remember the Women

  
  Carsons Post — Authority: 439
  Giving it back might not be so easy. A couple of years ago I attended a talk on Afghanistan at Chatham House. Until then, I had been fairly certain that all war is bad war, and removal of British or Canadian forces from the region would be a desirable thing. That talk changed my mind completely. I won’t pretend ...
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• Solar industry falls short in developing world

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 121
  photo: Curt Carnemark /World Bank At the Solar Power International conference this week, one of the more interesting panels was one that looked at bringing solar to the developing world. As I wrote in The New York Times: By 2020, the world’s biggest potential solar markets will be found in the developing world, ...
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• Solar Power Potential is Huge in Developing Countries

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  The developing world, where 44 percent of people lack access to electricity, could soon be one of the biggest markets for solar power , according to participants at the Solar Power International conference in California. To date, just 1 percent of solar panel production has been installed in poor nations in ...
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• Michelle Bachelet succeeds in spite (or because?) of her gender--and her focus on women and children

  
  Feminist Legal Theory — Authority: 126
  A story in todays New York Times report on the current popularity and recent successes of Michelle Bachelet, Chiles first woman president and a pediatrician by training. Though Bachelets start was rough when she took office back in 2006, her approval ratings are now at about 70% as her time in office nears an ...
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• Mobile Phones Easier to Find Than Food for World’s Poor

  
  Internet & Democracy Blog — Authority: 406
  This news from Foreign Policy’s Joshua Keating is pretty amazing. He writes that: We’ve reached a very strange point in human history when it is assumed that people who don’t have access to food will have working cell phones. He points to an announcement by the UN that it will use cell phones to send ...
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• Bill Gates funding genetic experimentation of agricultural crops

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  Bill Gates reveals that the debate and conflict over GM foods are threatening the efforts of The Gates Foundation in its attempt to end world hunger. ‘An “ideological wedge” threatens his global effort to help farmers.’ Over the recent years, The Gates Foundation has been ‘helping alleviate hunger and ...
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• How Women Can Save the Planet

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise At six billion plus today, the earth’s human population will reach more than nine billion by 2050, according to estimates. If this many ...
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• Solar in the Developing World: Potential and Pessimism

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  Amongst the seminars with titles like “The Real Value of Distributed Generation,” and “Innovations in Inverters and System Controllers,” at Solar Power International, one stood out as perhaps having a little more interest to the general reader: “Solar Opportunities in the Developing World.” As anyone who ...
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