For the past four years, Professor Berta Sivan of Hebrew University has led a project near Lake Victoria in Uganda to help families raise fish to feed their families again. About 50 years ago, the Nile Perch was introduced into Lake Victoria and it ate most of the smaller fish, …
Jobs can increase the chances of peace in the region: Murad Tahboub, managing director of Asal Technologies in Ramallah. Israeli high-tech companies are turning their backs on traditional outsourcing hubs India and China and finding new engineers to do their programming – …
"With a concentration of start-ups just behind that of Silicon Valley and an impressive pool of engineers, Israel is becoming the new standard for high-tech, with a unique business model. "From Microsoft to Intel through Google, IBM and Philips, almost all the giants of the In …
A moving video: Mavis Staples "Eyes On The Prize"
A village in India has decided to rename itself and henceforth be known as Snapdeal.com Nagar (which means town).
In Grand Rapids, Mich., they’re calling him a hero, the kid who saved the city from ignominy after Newsweek’s website carried a report that named Rob Bliss’s hometown one of America’s “dying cities”... ...The video, titled “Grand Rapid …
From an environmental perspective, it's a way for that fond and long-held hope, dematerialization, to start getting real traction. It turns out the ownership model, in and of itself, builds in a huge amount of resource inefficiency.
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"With his eccentric personal life and air of mystery, the flamboyant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seems to be doing his best to impersonate a James Bond villain.
"Growing up in Richmond, B.C., I, like more than a few Canadian children, dreamed of becoming secretary-general of the United Nations. The ideal of engaged global citizenship enraptured me, a political refugee from Idi Amin's Uganda.
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