Man’s best friend does it again. A dog’s motherly instincts saved an abandoned baby boy from death in Argentina. The dog heard the cries of the child and promptly called dibbs. What’s species got to do with it?
Can Moyo please pass the mojo? For the first time since 1980, Zimbabwe’s chief opposition party, the Movement [...]

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Early “retirement” Pakistani President Pervez Musharaff is expected to step down in the next few days. The news came after leaders of the ruling coalition said they planned to impeach him.
Money matters Inflation has skyrocketed to a 17-year high, so each party’s presumptive presidential nominee is talking taxes. Both Obama and McCain say their plan [...]

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When Mohammed Yunus, or more famously revered as the “Banker to the Poor,” shared the $1.4 million Nobel Peace prize two years ago for championing the idea of microcredit, the fact that Yunus’ economic proposal was older than himself never surfaced.
Yunus rightly deserved the prize. But his ideas came from a much older [...]

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11.4 million people in the world are refugees with an additional 26 million internally displaced within their own country, according to a new United Nations statistic released today in preparation for June 20, World Refugee Day.
Add those numbers together and that’s more than the entire population of California lacking a home or access to basic [...]

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In light of the arrest of hundreds of lawyers and activists in Pakistan and the suspension of the country’s constitution by President Pervez Musharraf last week, about fifty demonstrators protested these human rights abuses outside the Pakistan Consulate’s office in Westwood today.
“Crisis has been a daily part of life in Pakistan,” Hamid Khan, executive director [...]

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Global Voices Online, the international blog site run out of Harvard’s Berkman Center, has posted a special section on events in Pakistan. Global Voices staff bloggers are posting regularly but, as usual, the great thing about the site is the way it rounds up and posts blog material from around the world. The stuff they’re [...]

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Would attacking Pakistan make up for the fact that his name sounds a lot like those of America’s two top terrorist bogeymen?

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War on Terror
A Review of Work Performed, September 2006
I. Update
1) There are 140,000 American young men and women fighting in Iraq and 19,000 fighting in Afghanistan. President Bush claims the period of “employment” for these men and women will not end any time soon and that it will be up to future leaders to [...]

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