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The value of Art
–The monetary value of certain artists may have gone down, but the value of their art remains–The economic crisis has hit the art world. Art prices have decreased by about 35%, particularly the work of postwar artists whose price tags had previously gone up along with the stock market. Andy Warhol is in that category.…
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Access To Contraceptives: A Woman’s Right?
–The correlation between family planning and development in the Third World is strong enough that it does lead one to ask if access to contraceptives ought not to be a human right– For the last few decades “population projects”, as they’re called among development professionals, have been like ping pong balls bouncing according to the…
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Planning For The End of Hunger
–The world’s undernourished is now over one billion. The Head of the Food and Agriculture Organization says it’s time to eradicate hunger–Heads of organizations often have plans, that’s what they do, but when Jacques Diouf, the director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, does so, his message is worth heeding. Concerned that the economic crisis…
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