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Article Title: Bridging The Secular Divide Conference
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is proud to support Bridging the Secular Divide, a conference hosted by McGill University. The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is proud to support Bridging the Secular Divide , a conference hosted by McGill University. This conference will explore the role of religion more...
Article Title: Cup And Trade
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: Author: Ben Grumbles Smart market based strategies aren’t just for carbon pollution and climate change–they can make a big difference in protecting water supplies and ecosystems. With the right sidebars and safeguards, water quality trading can improve watershed protection, particularly more...
Article Title: Tanzania Food Fortification Launch
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: In Tanzania, 42% of children under the age of five are stunted as a result of malnutrition. Six in 10 children are anaemic. His Excellency, President Kikwete of Tanzania, is committed to improving the nutritional status of the population and was among the delegation to launch the country's more...
Article Title: Insects, From Delicacy To Tool Against Hunger
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s recommendation to consider using edible insects as a food source to combat hunger may have particular repercussions in Colombia and Mexico, two Latin American countries that have a tradition of eating insects and a high degree of biodiversity. Mexico ha more...
Article Title: New Effort Targets The Leading Killers Of Children
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: PATH, a Seattle based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million lives by 2015 by jointly tackling diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children globally. Steve Davis, president and CEO of PATH, delivered the message at the ninth annual PATH Breakfast for Global more...
Article Title: Cuban Agriculture Needs Young People
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: When Gabriela Blanco tells other Cubans that she works in an organic vegetable cooperative and is getting ready to study agronomy at the university, she gets surprised looks. She is not sure where her vocation came from, but she does know that this is what she wants to do. In Cuba, which is seekin more...
Article Title: Fresh Water More Precious Than Gold In Bangladesh
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty old hand pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh s arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of reach more...
Article Title: Chilean Development Still Tied To Copper Mining
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: Chile’s position as the world’s top producer of copper is not under threat, but the country faces the challenge of transforming its copper mining industry into social capital for the long term, and addressing high energy costs, which have grown seven fold over the last decade, experts to more...
Article Title: Rafsanjani Shut Out Of Iran’s Presidential Race
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: With the disqualification of former president and current chair of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani by a vetting body, the Guardian Council, Iran’s presidential campaign is opening with many in the country in a state of shock. Although the eight qualified candidates offer somew more...
Article Title: Growing Peas And Greens To Maximise Water Usage
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: Amid warnings that Kenya s agricultural water use is surpassing sustainable levels and adversely affecting food security, biodiversity researchers say that agrobiodiversity should be considered as a vital tool to combat this. In order to feed the nation, the country must explore agrobiodiversity, s more...
Article Title: Water Flows Again In The Valley
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: Staring out at his golden wheat field with satisfaction, 50 year old Alamgir Akbar says with a sigh of relief: “We’ve had a good crop this season. The farmer has waited a long time to utter those words. A resident of a small rural community on the outskirts of the Ucchali village in th more...
Article Title: More On Bipartisanship
Category: District Of Columbia
Published On: May 22 2013
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Summary: Some more interesting thoughts on bipartisanship, this time from Robert Kaiser of the Washington Post, who got near unprecedented access to the staffs of Senator Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank leading up to the passage of the Dodd Frank Act. Here’s some insight, though the whole article is more...
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