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		<title>Sea Shepherds vs Japanese Whaling Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overview of Japanese whaling research and anti-whaling activity by Sea Shepherds
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		<title>What Were They Thinking: Palin&#8217;s Yahoo Account Hacked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commentary on the hacking of Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account
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		<title>Craig Newmark Talks about the Internet and Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discusses some of the ways that the internet is helping to foster a better democracy
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		<title>Underage Chinese Gymnasts: Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Analysis of the arguments and evidence surrounding the use of underage gymnasts by the Chinese team in the 2008 Olympics, particularly He Kexin.
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		<title>Hidden Impacts of Stricter Sentencing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No politician ever claims to be be soft on crime. Quite the reverse: All politicians call for the legal system to be tough on crime. One result of this, at least in the United States, has been, over the last 30 years, to create a push for stricter and more mandatory sentencing laws. While tightening [...]
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		<title>Hidden Impacts: Keeping It Simple Isn&#8217;t Always Effective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One often hears the mantra, &#8220;keep it simple.&#8221; Yet, in our complex world, issues like globalization, global warming, and terrorism have so many variables and dynamic interrelationships that they defy human understanding. Often, desiring to make a difference, some kind of difference, business leaders and politicians, among others, often insist on simple, easily comprehensible explanations [...]
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		<title>Are Food Riots Indicators of the Collapse of Civilization?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a detailed article posted to the blog Climate Change and Sustainability, Lester Brown makes some startling claims about the state of the world. He contends, This troubling situation is unlike any the world has faced before. The challenge is not simply to deal with a temporary rise in grain prices, as in the past, [...]
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		<title>Benazir Bhutto&#8217;s Assassination: Does it mean democracy isn&#8217;t right for Pakistan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discussion of readiness for democracy
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		<title>Is Democracy Right for Russia? For Iraq?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TIME magazine has named Russian President Vladimir Putin the &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; for 2007, although the writers took great care to stress that they are not honoring or endorsing him, just acknowledging the tremendous influence that he has on world events. TIME also notes that while Russia has somewhat receded from the American public [...]
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		<title>The Journey Begins&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last 30 some years, forward thinkers have opined that modern communications technology (such as cell phones and the Internet) could give rise to a global democracy with a more empowered citizenry. Armed with information and the ability to communicate globally to anyone in an instant, people would rise up against oppressive regimes and [...]
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