2012 Archaeological Abbe Museum Field School

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Kenyans seek UK compensation for colonial abuses

Published on Oct 4, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish

The British high court in London will decide on Friday, whether a case brought by a group of elderly Kenyans will continue. The court has access to more than eight thousand secret files, and is considering if too much time has passed to hold a fair trial. They are seeking compensation for abuses committed by British colonial forces in the 1950s. Charlie Angela reports.

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Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/atwater/view/
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Winner of the 2009 Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism and nominee for the 2008 Writer’s Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Documentary, this film covers controversial Republican strategist Lee Atwater’s rambunctious rise from humble roots to create the controversial, racially-charged playbook that led Reagan and Bush Sr. to victory.

http://www.alternet.org/story/102994/the_lee_atwater_story%3A_meet_the_man_responsible_for_karl_rove_and_the_gop%27s_hate-driven_politics

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US farmers scramble to buy Brazil’s farmland

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/09/2012913112137744956.html
US farmers scramble to buy Brazil’s farmland
Foreigners are buying up prime agricultural land, but proposed legislation could curtail the booming trade.
Gabriel Elizondo Last Modified: 29 Sep 2012 09:52
Bonopolis, Brazil – Phil Corzine, a fourth-generation farmer from Illinois, is living the American dream, but it’s happening on dusty soy farms in the interior of Brazil, rather than the cornfields of Iowa.
Corzine, 53, owns or manages seven farms in Goias and Tocantins states in the agricultural heartland of Brazil.
He started farming in Brazil in 2004, and now his company, South American Soy, has 100 foreign investors from the US, is worth about $6m, and has started to turn a profit the past two years.
“I could have never dreamed I would be down here managing a farm in Brazil. It’s quite a leap from where I started,” Corzine told Al Jazeera, while watching tractors off in the distance churn up soil preparing the land for a soybean season.
For Corzine, the difficulties of navigating Brazil’s bureaucracy and the poor infrastructure are offset by cheap and plentiful farmland that is a fraction of the cost of the US…. (more).

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IPS – Task Force to Kick Start Cairo Population Goals | Inter Press Servic e

http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/10/task-force-to-kick-start-cairo-population-goals/
Task Force to Kick Start Cairo Population Goals
By Becky Bergdahl
Women’s sexual and reproductive rights are at the heart of sustainable development, experts say. Credit: Fahim Siddiqi/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 2 2012 (IPS) – Gathered at the Ford Foundation in New York Monday, international luminaries, family planning experts and women’s rights activists repeatedly expressed a common sentiment: “I cannot believe that we are still having this discussion today.”
They were there to mark the launch of a new 26-member high-level task force to galvanise support behind the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
That conference took place nearly two decades ago, in Cairo, Egypt in 1994. It resulted in a Programme of Action that become the guiding document for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA. ….. (more).

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IPS – Scientists Debate Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Diseases

http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/scientists-debate-climate-change-impacts-on-tropical-diseases/
Scientists Debate Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Diseases
By Fabiana Frayssinet Reprint | | Print | Send by email |En español

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 28 2012 (IPS) – More intense rainfall, rising temperatures and climate-driven migration of human and animal populations due to repeated drought all affect the spread of tropical diseases. These changes, already the focus of study by climatologists, are now also a challenge increasingly taken up by health experts and officials.

The impact of climate change on human health generated debate among the experts attending the 18th International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, held Sept. 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro.

On one side of the debate stands researcher Ulisses Confalonieri, of Brazil’s state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), who argues that the press often oversimplifies a very complex issue. (more)

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