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  • Amazons epic failure

    Amazons epic failure

    April 15, 2009 By Jennifer Barnett

    I never thought I’d see the day when the children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies was considered more “adult” than Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds, but thanks to Amazon.com I have. In what the company has called...

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  • Penguins & melting ice: Arctic, Antarctic actors & barometers of globes future

    Penguins & melting ice: Arctic, Antarctic actors & barometers of globes future

    April 14, 2009 By Susan Webb

    The North and South Poles are at the center of the earth. The earth’s survival, that is. The two polar regions, the Arctic and Antarctic, are “actors and barometers” of rapid climate and environmental changes that...

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  • Is anti-Semitism back?

    Is anti-Semitism back?

    April 14, 2009

    (Translated by Laure Tallot) (l'Humanite) What the statistics of the National Advisory Council on Human Rights (in French : CNCDH) say. On March 2 the yearly dinner party of the Representative Council of French Jewish institutions...

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  • Over 150,000 Gazans still without tap water

    Over 150,000 Gazans still without tap water

    April 14, 2009

    GAZA CITY, 7 April 2009 (IRIN) - Over 150,000 Palestinians in Gaza (around 10 percent of the population) are struggling without tap water as a result of the damage caused to wells, pipes and waste water...

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  • Israel PM has first exchange with Palestinian counterpart

    Israel PM has first exchange with Palestinian counterpart

    April 14, 2009

    Original source: New Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday for the first time since taking office. However, it was by no means a peace overture from Mr Netanyahu. His...

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