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The year 2000 was not a good time to be young and in charge, particularly in New Jersey. It was October of that year when Union City mayor Rudy Garcia […]
In March 2003, I served as a member of the prosecution team that drafted an indictment against the then-President of Liberia, Charles Taylor. The crucial role of the International Criminal […]
Are you 'reading' this oped on paper,
or are you 'screening' it online?
More bad climate news out of the journal Science—the Earth, as a whole, has been seeing less and less of the sun over the last 30 years. Maybe the global […]
The economic pinch making it harder to make ends meet and you know what that means. Crime is back in vogue! And while bad people are doing bad things all […]
I know that I just shot an arrow into the war of Atheism Vs. Christianity but if we have time can we also discuss this topic. I’m a laymen and […]
Does everyone need to suffer? Should an image of Nouriel Roubini as standard-level modelizer trouble us? Probably not. As much as we might like the idea of him holed up […]
Shall we expect a political stalemate or the largest economic rescue plan in the history of the universe next month in London? If for no one but Gordon Brown’s sake, […]
The Global Billionaires Club may be getting smaller by the minute, but there are still pockets of heavy growth. For example, Mexican drug lords are doing well. That’s why Forbes […]
What causes the Housing bubble and the result of recession! (See the cunning Greenspan, he only mentioned Housing Bubble not recession in his article! I do not buy it). ANSWER: THE PHILOSOPHICAL FLAW OF CAPITALISM!
Albert Einstein once opined, “you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” How then, can we begin to cure our global economic ailments using the same […]
Love it or hate it, broadcasting the minutiae of one’s life on Twitter has become the serial writing skill du jour. But, as the LA Times blogs, the medium is […]
A bizarre cottage industry born out of the war in Iraq carries a few lessons about humans and the economy. One, Saddam Hussein was one of the most iconic tyrants […]
Expository Essay exploring the traits of Down Syndrome, and how to predict this syndrome.
Low pricing and advertising revenue brought news to the American public175 years ago. With little variation, it’s the news model we’ve had for almost 200 years. Today, the same funding […]
Does the 24/7 new media environment make the economic recovery more difficult?
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Dickson Despommier explains that vertical farming would constitute a closed cycle, thus solving many of the water and waste related challenges of modern agricultural methods.
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Technologies used by arid countries could be used in space, says Dickson Despommier.
Michael Spencer at the Christian Science Monitor concluded recently that evangelical Christianity is headed for collapse in the U.S. due to too many of its adherents caring more about politics […]
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Chinese capital markets are about as developed as Wall Street was when Jack Perkowski started there in 1973.