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[Geography: Economic]: The Big Question: How will we pay for the care of elderly people as the population ages’
Mar 11th, 2010

Why are we asking this now’ It is 13 years since Tony Blair said he did not want children brought up in a country “where the only way pensioners can get long-term care is by selling their home”.

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  • [Geography: Human]: Asylum-seekers abused by security guards, says report
    Mar 11th, 2010

    Ministers are to review the use of force against asylum-seekers by British security guards after a report found serious injuries suffered by detainees who had been handcuffed or physically restrained.

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  • [Geography: Economic]: Chad Dobson: World Bank Convenes Multi-Stakeholder Energy Consultation in DC
    Mar 11th, 2010

    More than one hundred participants attended the consultation as part of an open dialogue with the World Bank as they continue to shape their Energy Strategy Approach Paper.

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  • [Geography: Economic]: Thailand Braces for Political Rallies in Capital
    Mar 11th, 2010

    While pledging nonviolence, protest leaders say they will gather mass rallies and blockades of government offices, starting on Friday and building over the following days.

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  • [Geography: Economic]: MPs query non-political ministers
    Mar 10th, 2010

    Ennobling people from outside Parliament to make them ministers should be “exceptional”, cross-party MPs say.

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  • [Geography: Human]: Immigration Reform Effort Re-Emerges With New Senate Bill
    Mar 10th, 2010

    Three years after efforts by Congress to reform the immigration system went down in flames, the issue is slowly re-emerging onto the national stage as two senators from the opposite sides of the political aisle work on crafting another bill.

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  • [Geography: Physical]: Unveiled: Scotland’s carbon capture plans to challenge climate change
    Mar 10th, 2010

    THE Scottish Government has unveiled a vision for Scotland to lead the way globally in key technology to capture carbon dioxide from power stations and store it underground.

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  • [Geography: Economic]: Foxes and crows face culls in bid to save bird population
    Mar 10th, 2010

    FOXES and crows should be culled in the Scottish uplands to protect threatened wading birds, scientists have argued.

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  • [Geography: Human]: Gordon Brown sends condolences over deaths of Red Road flat refugees
    Mar 10th, 2010

    PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has sent his “sincere condolences” to the family and friends of three asylum seekers who died in an apparent suicide.

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  • [Geography: Physical]: Jennifer Schwab: ECO:nomics — Creating Environmental Capital
    Mar 10th, 2010

    If there is one clear message coming out of the ECO:nomics Conference, it’s that we need to assign a price or cost to carbon emissions, and soon

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