Good story - contrary to what I said earlier there is a good example of solar power in the US ---
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Good story? - development working in Africa? - Jeffrey Sach's millennium villages - livelihoods ---
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Why are people questioning Sotomayor's comments on empathy when Alito said much the same thing? - there are other areas where Sotomayor comments are similar to Alito's ---
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Warren retired from the Supreme Court in 1969. He said, "Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for." --- ????
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Activist judge ---
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Israel - stop building in settlements? - good for Hillary - but I suspect we'll capitulate and retract - unfortunately - should cut their 'allowance' by 10% for every month that they build ---
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Science - space - NATO - what is the future? ---
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Removing dams - just as in deforestation - better economic analysis of 'ecosystem services' leads to different conclusions than those used earlier to justify the initial mis-action - another real example is in New York where it was found that it would be more cost-effective and efficient to buy the watershed and protect it rather than put in more water treatment plants ---
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Healthcare - currently based on profit - how can we expect the ones who profit to change? ---
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Salmonella in frozen food - ughh!! - eat fresh - buy local - eat local ---
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For those of you that know Goma or area - sad - for how many years? ---
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And - worse? - Mogadishu - the city forgotten - having been in Mogadishu several times - 20+ years ago - there was at least a modicum of hope then - now? - despair ---
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Tom Hayden asks - where is the peace movement? - i.e. Move-On - are they complicit now? ---
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I've always liked Lucky Ducky - the real winners may be the ones at the bottom ---
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Sleaze - Goldman Sachs - bedfellows in ??? ---
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Common ground - pro-life/pro-choice - reduce abortions - can it work - why not? ---
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We are always told that the US is a Judeo-Christian country - most people - and particularly those who insist on it - have little real understanding of what that means - Rabbi Lerner in a commencement address lays out what it should mean ---
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