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Corruption in Humanitarian AID and Health Care
Below you find links and summaries of some resources on the web that might be helpful as a starting point to understand the topic and issues of corruption with AIDS and health work in general…
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AIDS: Some less known facts on the disease (1)
Following below the first part of facts and thoughts on AIDS that most people don’t know…
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Henning Mankell: I Die, But My Memory Lives On
Most of us might know Henning Mankell for his Wallander crime novels but he has recently also published a non-fiction book on AIDS in Africa. The book is called “I Die, but My Memory Lives on: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project”. Mankell who spent a substantial amount of his life in Africa, has with the “Memory Book Project” provided an opportunity to those dying of AIDS to create a record of their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind…
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01-December-2006: World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day and we want to contribute by publishing some stories and thought on the matter that often get less attention than needed. We will also point you to some sources and facts that are not so popular with those that have been put in charge by our governments to fight this pandemic worldwide…
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Video: Modern Day Robin Hood
A group of friends from Sheffield, UK who call themselves “Modern Day Robin Hood” created quite some stir-up when they moved over to New York last week and handed out cash on the streets. While people did receive the stunt very positive and enjoyed the humor of the “mad English men” mainstream press was up in arms…
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Best News Picture Galleries on the Web
You can read your daily news online or via RSS but there is another way to get informed (and get your daily dose of news pictures). Major media agencies and news papers also provide daily or weekly updated news in pictures. Quite a few of them have even added spoken comments to the pictures so you get some background information together with the images. And often you get multiple images for a news story where otherwise only one of these pictures is included with a longer text. The services we included in the list below are the largest providers and often the source for other news and media sites. They cover news on a global level but some have also regional information. We have broken the list down into the following four sections (Daily picture sources, Weekly picture sources, Yearly picture awards and reviews, Historic and all time famous pictures)…
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Africa: The size of a continent
Many identify Africa with less-developed countries, disease and war ridden…
…but what almost all forget is the sheer size of that continent that will never allow one-size-fits all approaches. The map below provides a better understanding of the size by overlaying it with some of the largest countries in the world and whole continents…
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Worldprocessor: Data as Globes
Ingo Guenther’s “Worldprocessor” project that started in 1988 has created some of the most outstanding globes. Currently there are more then 300 different designs visualizing world statistical data as globes.
This project has been going for quite some time but the online catalog with hundreds of globes is still worth a look. We have selected a [...]
Environment: Yahoo! Auto starts green center
Today Yahoo Auto has launched a new section devoted to alternative-fuel vehicles. To champion environmental protection Yahoo Auto teamed up with the nonprofit Environment Defense organization to give vehicles “green ratings” ranging from one to 100 based on greenhouse gas emissions, polluting exhaust, and fuel economy. The Yahoo Green Center as the web site [...]
Environment: Inc. Magazine’s Top 50 green entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur’s magazine Inc is introducing the Green 50 of entrepreneurial companies that embrace the concept of green business.
Inc. Magazine believes that the current green awakening is driven as much by markets as morality:
…High oil prices, global warming, the sense that chemicals cause real harm and the earth’s resources are indeed finite–these are not [...]
