Halving Hunger Through “Business as Unusual”
Region: United StatesCross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet By Alex Tung This interview with Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is part of a regula... more
Views: 1479The Gulf Oil Spill, And What We Can Do To Help
Region: New York
Isn't social media a beautiful thing? As of right now, there have been 361 unique visitors to my site with a total of 459 hits since I posted my first blog. That is 361 more people listening to me today that weren't lis... more
Views: 1893'Stop the rubbish tactics,' says Zaid.
Region: MalaysiaDaro, Malaysia; Zaid Ibrahim, one of Anwar’s top lieutenants was visibly upset that some former members of the Opposition Pakatan Rakyat are now coming out and telling the Parliament what transpired ... more
Views: 1504The Complexity of Caring for California's Uninsured Pregnant Women
Region: California
By Deborah Stokol Images by P. Kim Bui As long as she is pregnant, a woman living in the United States may receive medical care. So even the homeless, the undocumented, “the tired [and] poor,” may visit a doc... more
Views: 4849University of Phoenix’s Curious Take on the Law
Region: Arizona
The University of Phoenix has 190 campuses operating in 39 states [1], the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The school says it has 420,000 students and tens of thousands of employees at its schools of nursing, busines... more
Views: 1116Psychiatrist Was Paid $500Kto Promote Antipsychotic Drug, Despite Doubts
Region: United States
Chanile Hayes came under Dr. Michael Reinstein's care after suffering a nervous breakdown. Hayes went from 140 pounds to nearly 300 in two years after taking Seroquel, a drug that Reinstein was paid to promote by... more
Views: 2665U.N. Can’t Account for Millions Sent to Afghan Election Board
Region: Afghanistan
Afghan employees from the Independent Election Commission load election materials into a truck to be sent to provinces on Oct. 22, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential rivals are reigniting their campaigns for a se... more
Views: 1251Ethiopian Premier accused aid donors of manipulating starvation
Region: Ethiopia
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has lashed out at aid donors, accusing them of manipulating his country's food crisis and failing to deliver on pledges of assistance. Televised live Saturday on state media, the Ethi... more
Views: 2345Dead Aid Book Could Invigorate Africa
Region: United StatesDambisa Moyo's book Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is A Better Way For Africa, contends that development aid from the West to Africa not only has not worked but is detrimental to the Africans. See www... more
Views: 1340The American Foreign Policy Shell Game: Free Trade It Is Not
Region: United States
While most Americans have been caught up since the election of Barack Obama with the increasingly downward spiraling economy, and Mr. Obama's solutions, which haven't been solutions at all merely attempts to supposedly bul... more
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