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Earth's beauty in danger. (Part I)
I visit msn.com more than I visit Popsugar (is that even possible?), and I love that ever since msn.com made it available for Internet-goers to watch the Live Earth concerts the site have continued to dedicate a channel on the environment. The environmentally conscious articles on msn.com are interesting, thought-provoking and compelling, and the article below is no exception. Ladies and gents, 16 of the most endangered destinations in the world, starting with the first eight:
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We Can Move Mountains by Matt Damon for Parade magazine
Actor Matt Damon, famous as the hero of the three Bourne movies, is also the star of films such as The Departed and The Informant! But the Oscar winner spends a lot of time working for charitable causes. We asked him why giving is so important.
Hostages to face bill as France tries to recoup cost of rescues
Adam Sage The Times July 31, 2009 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6734053.ece The French commandos swoop into action, shooting dead the kidnappers and bundling the hostages into a helicopter. But the smiles of the former captives fade as their liberators deliver a nasty shock: the bill. That could be the scene after Bernard Kouchner, the Foreign Minister, introduced a law enabling officials to take legal action against kidnap victims deemed to have ignored official advice against travelling to dangerous places.Honey, I Sunk the Maldives! Environmental changes could wipe out some of the world's most well-known travel destinations.
Honey, I Sunk the Maldives
Environmental changes could wipe out some of the world's most well-known travel destinations
By Megan Angelo
As if an eroding worldwide economy weren’t enough to depress travel this year, some hot spots are facing even scarier scenarios: sinking, melting, or literally vanishing from the face of the earth. Thanks to global warming and tourist wear and tear, locales from the Galápagos Islands to Croatia’s Dalmatian coast are breaking down.
Maldive Islands
Country: Republic of Maldives
At stake: $490 million
On the Ground: This chain of islands in the Indian Ocean is about three feet above sea level, and scientists fear it could be submerged by 2050.
The Speech President Obama Won't Dare Give in Egypt
PUBLIC POST ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Speech President Obama Won't Dare Give in Egypt By Dennis Prager This week, President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a major address in Cairo to the Muslim world. He is likely to reiterate what he has stated previously to Muslim audiences, that America has no battle with Islam, deeply respects Islam and the Muslim world, and apologizes for any anti-Muslim sentiment that any Americans may express. Here is what an honest address would sound like: "Thank you for the honor of addressing the Egyptian people and the wider Muslim world.One Step Closer to a Malaria Vaccine
Malaria vaccine enters phase III clinical trials Success in large-scale studies could see drug to market by 2012 Anjali Nayar The world's most advanced malaria vaccine entered its final phase of pre-approval testing yesterday in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, raising hopes that the drug could be licensed for widespread use by 2012. On 26 May, five infants aged 5–17 months were inoculated with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)'s RTS,S vaccine. In the coming months, the study will become the largest ever trial of a malaria vaccine candidate, involving 16,000 children under the age of two at eleven sites in seven African countries.The problem is they aren't just goofin'
Public Post ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The problem is they aren't just goofin' By Glenn Garvin You know what they say about monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare. My question is, if you sat an infinite number of Joe Bidens at an infinite number of microphones, would any of them ever say anything that wasn't infinitely stupid? From his reminiscences about Franklin Roosevelt's famous White House television address on the day of the 1929 stock market crash (that is, three years before Roosevelt was president and 20 years before Americans bought TVs) to his campaign-rally exhortation to Missouri state Sen.Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists
Obama Team Mulls Aims Of Somali Extremists Seeing Potential Terror Threat, Officials Debate Their Options By Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, April 11, 2009; Page A01 Senior Obama administration officials are debating how to address a potential terrorist threat to U.S. interests from a Somali extremist group, with some in the military advocating strikes against its training camps. But many officials maintain that uncertainty about the intentions of the al-Shabab organization dictates a more patient, nonmilitary approach.Recruited For Jihad? --- About 20 young Somali-American men in Minneapolis have recently vanished.
Dan Ephron and Mark Hosenball NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Feb 2, 2009 It didn't trouble Burhan Hassan's mother that her son had been spending more time at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, Minneapolis's largest mosque. A 17-year-old senior at Roosevelt High, Hassan and his family had fled civil war in Somalia when he was a toddler. Some of the other Somali immigrants in the Cedar-Riverside housing project where he lived got drawn into gangs with names like Murda Squad and Somali Mafia.Matt Damon: USA's Problems Could Be Solved "if People Had Thick Passports"
Matt Damon thinks Americans should be more internationally-focused. "I think many of our problems as a country would be solved if people had thick passports," the actor, 37, tells Conde Nast Traveler in its September issue. "There's just no substitute for actually going and seeing things," he says.
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