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[Geography: Physical]: Iran Earthquake: 5.7 Quake Causes Communication Issues, Damage
Jul 30th, 2010

What’s Your Reaction’ TEHRAN, Iran A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled the northeast Iranian city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh on Friday, injuring at least 110 people.

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  • [Geography: GIS]: Google Earth Now Displays Real-Time Rain and Snow
    Jul 30th, 2010

    The latest version of Googles 3D map application, Google Earth, now has the ability to display real-time rain and snow in certain parts of the world. To see it, you must first enable the clouds layer, and

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  • [Geography: Economic]: Liberia: World Bank Gives U.S.$63 Million Grant
    Jul 30th, 2010

    The World Bank has provided US63 million (Sixty Three Million United States Dollars) grant to the government of Liberia for the implementation of Employment and skills projects in the country.

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  • [Geography: Economic]: Marc Louis Bazin: Former Haitian Prime Minister and World Bank economist
    Jul 29th, 2010

    Even within the constant shapeshifting of Haitian politics, Marc Louis Bazin’s curriculum vitae was quite unique. He was a World Bank development economist when he was named minister for economy and finance in Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s brutal and corrupt dictatorship in 1982. He was sacked and exiled after he criticised Duvalier’s corruption and won the public nickname “Mr Clean” a …

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  • [Geography: Economic]: Population Research Presents a Sobering Prognosis
    Jul 29th, 2010

    The worlds population will top 7 billion next year, while the ratio of working age adults to the elderly will decline precipitously in developed countries.

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  • [Geography: Physical]: Climate Change Art Contest: Submit Your Creative Vision To Help Fight Global Warming
    Jul 29th, 2010

    What’s Your Reaction’ Art has a unique way of propelling societies toward change by raising awareness of pertinent issues through aesthetically-pleasing and compelling imagery.

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  • [Geography: Physical]: New light on speciation and biodiversity of marine microorganisms
    Jul 29th, 2010

    The worlds oceans are host to an enormous diversity of drifting, microscopic organisms, known as plankton. How this biodiversity has arisen has puzzled biologists for decades. An international team of researchers has now succeeded in elucidating how new planktonic species are formed, providing an explanation for the large biodiversity seen today.

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  • [Geography: Human]: Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers given right to work
    Jul 29th, 2010

    Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers are to be allowed to work in the UK after the Government lost a legal battle over EU rules.

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  • [Geography: Human]: Refugees on Jolie agenda in Korea
    Jul 28th, 2010

    Actress Angelina Jolie has taken time out from her promotional movie tour of South Korea to investigate the fate of repatriated North Korean refugees.

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  • [Geography: Physical]: Madagascar: Biodiversity at Risk
    Jul 28th, 2010

    Vast portions of Madagascar’s unique biodiversity could be lost – possibly forever, and at incalculable cost to ordinary Malagasy and the world – by the continued suspension of environmental funding in response to an ongoing political crisis, says a new report by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the main environmental donor.

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