From IHT by Andrew Martin.
Grocery bills are rising through the roof. Food banks are running short of donations. And food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world.
Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and [...]
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent humanitarian medical aid agency committed to two objectives: providing medical aid wherever needed, regardless of race, religion, politics or sex and raising awareness of the plight of the people we help.
In the United States the name Doctors Without Borders is often used instead.
From PBS Online interview with MSF [...]
From Aljazeera.net.
Mark Canning, Britain’s ambassador to Myanmar, has told Al Jazeera that the relief operation for Myanmar is likely to be twice the size needed in Aceh province in Indonesia, after the 2004 tsunami.
His comments come as a UN official says that Myanmar’s refusal to grant visas to foreign aid teams is “unprecedented in modern [...]
March 28, 2008 – 12:21 am
From inhabitat. (photos)
A stunning new residential development is planned for the Putrajaya waterfront known as Precinct 4, just 30km south of Kuala Lumpur. The design, however, is a refreshing and original with unique, marine-inspired structures - which also draw from traditional Islamic designs - arranged in a permeable, radiating block of bioclimatic architecture.
The [...]
March 13, 2008 – 11:19 pm
From chron.com by Fran Blinebury.
One score (wins) and six weeks ago, our Rockets brought forth on this continent, a new team, conceived in Intensity, and dedicated to the proposition that all NBA teams are not created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great winning streak, testing whether that team, or any team so conceived and [...]
February 19, 2008 – 10:57 pm
From Newsweek. (photos)
Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego say that Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States, which supplies water as well as hydroelectric power to tens of millions of people throughout the Southwest, could be dry in just 13 years. But Lake Mead is [...]