Spotlights On Our Global Village As A New Society
Introduction In March 2008, the United Nations’ World Drug Report confirmed that the price of cocaine in Europe had fallen to a record low, fuelling record levels of cocaine use. “Celebrity drug offenders can profoundly influence attitudes, politics, values and behavior towards drug abuse, particularly among young people,” the report warned. The United Nations blamed…
Brother follows brother as Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarch. And so it may well continue, but watch for the tensions within that very large royal family Jul 15th 2010 | Cairo
Last year, we told you about a conceptual treehouse in Sweden that looked like a Robert Morris sculpture screwed onto a tree trunk — that or a scene from Predator. It’s the kind of quixotic idea you always hear about in the design world, but because of money or politics or sheer technical impossibility, it…
Bouthaina Shaaban is political and media adviser at the Syrian Presidency, and former expatriates minister. She is also a writer and professor at Damascus University since 1985. She has a Doctorate in English Literature from Warwick University, London. She was the spokesperson for Syria. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Despite…
Charles in charge Tuesday July 6, 2010 | 12:07 by Ossian Ward in London | permalink Here in London a stunned silence greeted the surprise news that Charles Saatchi was to ‘donate’ his recently opened Saatchi Gallery and part of his collection to the British nation, perhaps as soon as 2012. The surprise came, not…
Luxury apartments in the hills above Place St Pierre overlook squalid tent camps. Below, a former sweatshop worker, Darline Charles, does her laundry. She says her family cannot afford to move to a new home costing $740 for half a year. PORT-AU-PRINCE // In the colonial-style French restaurant on Place Boyer in Pétionville, the duck…
Little hope for US Gulf Coast as example of Guanabara Bay reveals a still devastated area a decade after environmental catastrophe. Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On I wanted to see the effects of an oil spill years later, so I came to Guanabara Bay near Rio de Janeiro. It…
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