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The Press and Human Trafficking
There was a discussion in New York not long ago about the role of the media in covering human-trafficking. On the one hand there were people like UN under secretary-general Antonio Mario-Acosto, executive director for the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, who believed at most the media gets a C because “the media has…
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Green Unto Death
Suppose there was a way to reduce carbon emissions from a crematorium? And further suppose that way would mean that your loved one instead of being burned would be dissolved in a caustic potash solution that would turn the body into liquid and ash? Such a process now exists. It is called chemical hydrolysis and…
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Indirectly Nurturing
Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California spent $90 million of her own money during the primary in order to beat out her opponent Steve Poizner. Steve Poizner himself spent $24 million of his own money to give running a shot. We’ll have to wait until November for the final tally of how…
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