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Logging Boreal Forest Could Detonate Massive “Carbon Bomb,” Says Report

April 14, 2008
The boreral forests of Canada store more than 25 times carbon dioxide that is currently released in world’s annual fossil-fuel emissions, reports an article from the Canadian Press. “About 80 percent of the carbon is stored in the soil as dead organic matter. The rest is stored in the forest's...

Hookah Bar Becomes the ‘Anti-Loudoun’

January 20, 2006
At the Shisha Café and Lounge, like cafés throughout the Middle East, customers smoke flavored tobacco from brass hookahs and water pipes. Yet Sisha is in Virginia, not Baghdad or Beirut. Originally intended to serve the Middle Eastern communities in Loudoun and Fairfax counties, the hookah bar...

Indonesia Questions US Commitment to Fight Terrorism

September 3, 2003
The United States is dragging its feet in the war on terrorism, says Indonesia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Hassan Wirayuda. By failing to grant Indonesian detectives access to Hambali, a terror suspect captured three weeks ago by US and Thai authorities, Washington effectively prevented...

Nestlé Asks EU to Soften Line on GM

June 30, 2008
The European Union sets trends in trade, agriculture and culture, and so the decision to reject genetically modified food for its markets carries influence beyond European borders. For example, African nations produce crops for export to Europe, and most African countries do not want to risk...

Latin America’s Dysfunctional Democracy

August 3, 2005
Most Latin American nations have democratized over the last ten years in terms of free and fair elections. With falling living standards and stagnating income, however, the region continues to be mired in poverty and democracy remains dysfunctional. Governments have produced skin-deep democracies...

Pakistani Charity Under Scrutiny in Plot

August 14, 2006
The Pakistani charity organization Jamaat ud Dawa won praise for its action in helping victims of the October 2005 earthquake in Kashmir, which killed more than 70,000. But the group also has a militant branch that fights the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir and was labeled a terrorist group by...

BP Oil Spill: Louisianans Want More From Obama ... But More What?

June 1, 2010
Offshore oil drilling has enriched communities along the Gulf of Mexico since the 1970s. An explosion ripped apart undersea pipes in April and has since left oil gushing and polluting waters and beaches that have fed those same communities with seafood for centuries. One representative called the...

南海的“马岛启示录”

July 3, 2012
1982年的“马岛海战”，正如王晓夏所言，是二战之后现代化海陆空联合海上战争的一个“范例”，参战双方英国和阿根廷都投入了大量的人力、物力、财力，双方伤亡惨重，都付出了巨大的代价。对于中国而言，“马岛海战”是一个值得深入研究的特例。在1982到2008年之间，“马岛海战”对中国而言，其重要性直指台湾；而2008年之后，随着台海局势的缓和和南海争端的升级，“马岛海战”在新时期被赋予了新的意义，那就是对中国解决“南海争端”的启示。无论是台湾还是南海，这两者之中都有美国的身影，因此，中国如何消除“美国因素”，也就成为了这一“反介入战略”的重要组成部分。同时，中国如何面对几千公里之外的战线，...
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