Search Results: hurricane
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kent Rosenthal
- 10 July 2006
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Living conditions in Ouanaminthe, a ‘town’ of around 100,000 inhabitants amount to an undeclared war on the poor. There’s a lack of services, which makes Ouanaminthe a gathering place for human traffickers, smugglers and corrupt authorities ready to profit from people desperate to leave for the Dominican Republic.
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AUSTRALIA
On the 25th anniversary of the election of the Sandinista government, Nicaragua is still subject to the machinations of Central American politics
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ENVIRONMENT
- Robert Hefner
- 23 April 2006
If our actions are contributing to a climate which makes catastrophic hurricanes more likely, surely we owe it to the dead, maimed and homeless to examine those actions more closely.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 23 April 2006
Regarding climate change, what we need is not a new way of engineering but a new way of living.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham
- 23 April 2006
Niger’s descent to the world’s worst place to live has been paved with greed and good intentions
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INTERNATIONAL
- Robert Hefner
- 23 April 2006
Crossing the border to better understand ‘the other’ can help not just them, but us as well
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AUSTRALIA
- Robert Hefner
- 21 April 2006
Comment by Robert Hefner.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 21 April 2006
What with tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, mudslides and bombings, we’ve been beaten around the head with more than a few hard lessons on the limits to human power in the past year. And it looks like we are about to get another one—bird flu.
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