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The Strategic Importance of the Caspian Sea
"Stratfor Eurasia Analyst Eugene Chausovsky examines the Caspian Sea's large energy reserves and its conflicting maritime boundaries."Kendra King's insight:This video does a great job depicting how...
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Mixing Past And Present In Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, once home to cannibals, still has an exotic aura. The local tourist economy caters to those notions, and visitors may see a hybrid of the traditional and the modern. This story is an...
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Puerto Rico's Battered Economy: The Greece Of The Caribbean?
With the highest unemployment rate in the U.S. and a mountain of debt, the island is facing a declining population. But those who stay insist they're there for the long haul.Kendra King's insight:I...
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China's Plan to Dig a Canal Across Nicaragua
"By the end of this year, digging could begin on a waterway that would stretch roughly 180 miles across Nicaragua to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans."Kendra King's insight:Form the perspective of...
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The role of social networking in the Arab Spring
A case study for our World Development text book... How useful was digital technology, particularly social networking sites, to democracy protesters in Tunisia and Egypt? How important are the...
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Mosul Dam key win for Islamic State
"Islamic State's capture of the Mosul dam gives it control over the water and electricity supply in northern Iraq."Kendra King's insight:As the director of the Brookings Institution's Doha Centre in...
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Israel and Palestine
Watch this Jewish Voice for Peace 6 minute mini-primer about why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting..Kendra King's insight:The video was informative, but bias. I have a stronger understanding of...
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Palestine is but one of many aspiring to the United Nations
Admission to the General Assembly of the UN is not open to all. The Palestinian Territories are just one of several regions without a seat at the world's top table. Palestine's bid for statehood and...
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Why these Somali refugees do not want to leave Kenya
"For millions of refugees across Africa life is a daily struggle. Many dream of one day returning to their homeland while others have spent decades building a new life. On World Refugee Day, BBC...
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Belize: A Spanish Accent in an English-Speaking Country
"BELIZE has long been a country of immigrants. British timber-cutters imported African slaves in the 18th century, and in the 1840s Mexican Mayans fled a civil war."Kendra King's insight:Belize is...
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Why reconstructing Haiti has been so slow
Experts and aid officials discuss ongoing challenges and lessons learnt on the ground in Haiti... Development and humanitarian aid projects must always take local geographic factors into consideration...
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Coral Reefs Most at Risk
A new map ranks the world's coral reefs by the risks they face from warming oceans, overfishing and other stress factors, which will help scientists focus on conserving the reefs with the most likely...
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Penguins from Space: A New Satellite Census Doubles the Known Population of...
High-resolution imaging has allowed scientists to produce the first full count of Antarctica's emperor penguins... Before this, there was no way to to gather reliable penguin statistics. Geospatial...
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Australia's heatwave: a taste of things to come
Unprecedented heat and bushfires are a wake-up call, says Tim Flannery, but we're running out of time.Kendra King's insight:In an earlier post, I complained about the changing climate in New England....
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Aborigines threaten to shut Uluru
Aboriginal leaders threaten to ban tourists from a top Australian landmark in protest at "racist" government policies.Kendra King's insight:I have an issue with the fact this legislation isn’t...
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A Review of Jared Diamond's "The World Until Yesterday"
Should we look to traditional societies to help us tweak our lives? Wade Davis takes issue with the whole ideaKendra King's insight:As a member of the Western world where technology and modernity are...
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Video: Fighting Poverty with Ingenuity
I absolutely love creative, out-of-the-box, innovative people! People who use their creativity to make a difference in the World.... Incredible! "We want to ... Kendra King's insight:This is such a...
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Philippines Overtakes India as Hub of Call Centers
Many companies have moved their customer service lines to Manila to take advantage of workers who speak lightly accented English and are familiar with American culture. The geography of globalization...
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Flexible Urban Planning
mixed used train-tracks/market place... Kendra King's insight:On the one hand this disturbed me. All I kept thinking when I saw the people go back on the tracks is that they could easily be killed.In...
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Unusual ways to avoid Jakarta's traffic
Jakarta's traffic is legendary and locals have now become experts at finding ways to get around the jams, with some even making money out of them. The population of Indonesia is heavily concentrated...
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