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The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment — a four-year, $21-million US effort to collate all that is known about environmental degradation — is painting a bleak picture about what we're doing to our planet. An excerpt from the BBC story: The world's bulging population has led to the creation of mega-cities Deforestation, climate change, and pollution are [...]
Wed, March 30 2005 » Main Page » 2 Comments
Tuesday was an all-star night for disgusting stories on the wires, although I think the 'guy eating his own feces to try and fool a breathalyzer test' yarn tops the 'dead grandma left to rot in a house for nine years' story. Here's an excerpt from the Toronto Sun story (via CP and azcentral.com) on the driver: An [...]
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Lefty It Girl Naomi Klein went to Italy to interview Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist wounded by U.S. troops after being freed by her Iraqi captors. There are some very interesting new revelations in it. Klein spoke to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on March 25. An excerpt: … One of the things that surprised me [...]
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John Miller, a professor of journalism at Ryerson University (Rye High, in some circles), reviewed Hugh Miles' 'Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged The World' for The Globe and Mail on March 26. I review the review! :) Chronicling the way Al-Jazeera used courageous journalism to build itself into perhaps the world's largest and most [...]