January 2010
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Haiti according to Médecins Sans Frontières →
Haiti has raised a lot of questions about how the world helps when disaster strikes. The first thing people tend to forget is that much of the life-saving activity that goes on in the first days of…
Can uniforms improve Israel’s schools? →
Can a plain t-shirt be the answer to the problems of the Israeli education system? Education Minister Gideon Saar thinks so. He has just reintroduced mandatory school uniform and announced that the…
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Angola’s politics: a spectator sport →
At football’s Africa Cup of Nations, currently being held in Angola, one man has been everywhere. Large portraits of the country’s president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, hang from every side of the…
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Launch of the iPad →
For months now anyone in business who was interested in Apple, and that’s just about everyone, has been waiting for the company to announce the launch of its tablet computer. Apple hadn’t breathed a…
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Kicking the weed →
When it comes to marijuana, 2009 was a bumper year for police in Northern California’s Mendocino County. Officers with the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, a state task force, seized around…
Haiti’s earthquake entrepreneurs →
Finding work in Haiti has rarely been easy. But amid the carnage and destruction of the recent earthquake, thousands of Haitians are battling to find new ways to support their families. They are the…
Haiti’s lifeline – from Africa →
For Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal’s octogenarian president and a committed pan-Africanist, simply offering aid to Haiti’s earthquake victims was not enough. Any Haitian that wanted to “return to their…
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“La técnica cambia, pero el arte permanece siempre igual”
– Claude Monet
Sundance pulls out the stops →
“This is your guide to cinematic rebellion,” screeches the cover of the booklet accompanying the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. This theme of subversiveness has been grafted onto every last aspect of…
“Si tú tienes una manzana y yo tengo una manzana, e intercambiamos manzanas,...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Haiti: the aftershock →
Water and fuel in Port-au-Prince are the new currency. It is what everyone is scrambling to get. “Water, water,” say Haitians as they see aid workers leave the guarded gates of the UN peace-keeping…