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At the San Angelo Nature Center, we frequently receive phone calls from frightened citizens who have witnessed what appear to be groups of overgrown rats near the Concho River or Lake Nasworthy. Many times, it takes a little...
From a devastating food crisis in Guatemala to water cuts in Venezuela, El Niño has compounded drought damage across Latin America this year. "El Nino prolonged the period of drought, which provoked a reduction... in...
Rebuilding "fragile" and "failing" states is a declared priority of most western governments. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a rash of policy statements and guidelines to help donor...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, twenty years ago, many critics have been quick to sign liberation theology's death certificate, says Walter Altmann. But its biblical concern with justice still continues to resonate.
Nearly 12 million Africans deemed at highest risk from yellow fever will be vaccinated next week against the virus, which can cause explosive epidemics in cities, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. The vaccination...
Praise for 'the free world' rings very hollow in El Salvador, where the death squads slaughtered at will in 1989 The 20th anniversary last week of the fall of the Berlin Wall – attended by well-known political leaders, Lech...
Asian, Eastern European, Spanish Dermatologists Attend Beginning Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, the International Psoriasis Council (IPC) will host its second symposium at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. The two-day...
Desde la caída del Muro de Berlín, han sido muchos los críticos que se precipitaron a declarar la muerte de la teología de la liberación. La mayoría lo hizo porque vio en ella apenas una apología del socialismo de caduco estilo...
Two people died in a fire that destroyed a supermarket on the outskirts of Asuncion in Paraguay. Firefighters and police recovered the bodies of two dead men from the wreckage after yesterday’s fire but 1,500 people escaped....
Who can forget the Dec. 9 storm of 2005? Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard outages Source: NStar data on "significant interruptions" of more than 500 customer hours, i.e. one customer out for 500 hours (about 20 days) or 500...
