Category: Environment
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Eat, Love, Travel
The World is Flat One of the most everlasting habits I took away from my time in service was a passion and thirst for travel. No matter if it’s a new state or country to visit. This passion continues to this day as a civilian. The world is smaller than you think. Every place on…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Scantily clad models — long a fixture in Mexico — are banned at official events in Mexico City Many women, including female politicians, have long grumbled about the ubiquitous presence of scantily clad models at official functions where everyone else is dressed in business attire. At corporate events or store openings, it’s common for models…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Losing Earth: The Decade WeAlmost Stopped Climate Change It is true that much of the damage that might have been avoided is now inevitable. And Pomerance is not the romantic he once was. But he still believes that it might not be too late to preserve some semblance of the world as we know it.…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Rev. William Barber
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the pastor, activist, and North Carolina NAACP…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
During Roundtable, Trump Calls Some Unauthorized Immigrants ‘Animals’ President Trump, speaking on Wednesday to a gathering of officials from California who oppose the state’s “sanctuary” law, compared some people who illegally cross the U.S. southern border to “animals.” #TrumpsAmerica#Immigration#Mexico#HumanRights ‘He was my whole world’: Palestinians mourn killing of loved ones “He was the spirit of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Illegal Immigration Does Not Increase Violent Crime, 4 Studies Show Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, looked at whether the soaring increase in illegal immigration over the last three decades caused a commensurate jump in violent crimes: murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. “Increased undocumented immigration since 1990 has not increased violent crime over that…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Confederate flag-bearing trucks park outside Michigan school “If the motive was to intimidate, that was wrong,” he said. “Trying to intimidate by race, color, creed, political belief, or religious belief is wrong. We have to respond to that in the right way so that the right message gets out.” #Michigan#MidWest#Confederate#Bigots The Palestinian women at the forefront…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Wealth inequality is soaring – here are the 10 reasons why it’s happening All of these causes of inequality are within the power of government to put right. Ultimately wealth is created by hard work and endeavour, not by reallocation and redistribution. Yet we penalise labour and subsidise both debt and the ownership of assets.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump is reinvigorating the American left We don’t yet know what the effects of all this activism will be in the long run. But I have zero doubt that in years to come there will be Democratic mayors, governors, senators and maybe even a president or two who will say, “Why did I get involved…
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Gone, but Not Forgotten
America thinks that men who look #StephonClark or me, my nephews, friends, mentors, fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and brothers are monsters who deserve to be judged with death at the slightest so-called “threat,” real or imagined. To law enforcement or the state. Women who look like #AtatianaJefferson or my mother’s, sisters, nieces, my wife, cousins, aunties, and grandmothers…
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