Loading ...According to the World Bank, global food prices have increased by 75% since 2005 and 45% in the last nine months. In the past two months, the cost of rice, a staple food for over half of the world’s population, rose by 75%. The price of wheat has risen 120% during the past year.
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Food Crisis Sparks Global Riots: World Leaders Struggle to Respond
April 28, 2008 - 1:00 pm
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Comments (2) Study Abroad in the GALAPAGOS this Summer!
April 5, 2008 - 10:00 am
Go beyond the cruise ship, past the safari, further than you’ve ever gone before… study abroad in the Galapagos with the Isabella Oceanographic Institute (IOI) this year!This is seriously one of the coolest programs I’ve come across.
1.As they note on their website, teaching inhabitants to conserve is essential to ecological preservation.
My boyfriend’s mom often [...]
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Comments (2) The Act of Waterboarding: Everything You (Didn’t) Want to Know
March 14, 2008 - 11:30 am
Is it just me or have we all entered some kind of Twilight Zone in which torture and terror are both permissible as long as the defenders of freedom and democracy are using them?
This past Saturday, March 9, President Bush exercised his veto on a piece of legislation that would have banned interrogation techniques used [...]
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Comments (6) Hillary and Barack: When Attack Ads Backfire
February 28, 2008 - 11:35 am
Many candidates running in the primaries are able to go back to their political careers nearly unscathed by the political process. It is already clear, however, that this campaign will have a lasting effect upon the political trajectories of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
As a recent New York Times article comments, Obama’s campaign can [...]
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Comments (0) Understanding Russia’s Farcical Presidential Election
February 27, 2008 - 9:40 am
Russians will go to the polls on Saturday, March 2, to elect a new president. Unlike our suspenseful US elections, in Russia it is all but a foregone conclusion that Dmitry Medvedev will be the winner.
Why such a farce? While hardly anybody claims to “get” the Russian political system, it’s generally agreed that Putin’s power [...]
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