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Ignoring global warming is 'reckless' of the government, warn campaigners
Brussels :: Belgium | 8 months ago
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John McConnico/AP The government's failure to tackle climate change is "reckless and short-sighted" with just 50 months remaining to prevent a critical threshold in the fight against global warming being breached , environmental campaigners warn
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Lift up women, lift the world
Tōkyō :: Japan | 8 months ago
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Or that when women participate equally in the workforce , the GDP in the U.S. the eurozone, and Japan will experience a double-digit spike. And while there's no perfect metric for the popular perception of "girl power," a 2010 Pew study found
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2012 Tipping Point?
Tripoli :: Libya | 8 months ago
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We may look back at September 11, 2012, as the kick-off date for such a tipping point in our time.
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Sky-high Manhattan rents could reach tipping point
Manhattan :: KS :: USA | 8 months ago
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Enid Alvarez/New York Daily News Rents rose modestly in August, while the vacancy rate was unusually wide for this time of year, signalling price breaks ahead for Manhattan renters. After soaring up to the stratosphere, Manhattan rents appear to be
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Harbinger of the future is here
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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Major cities are asking residents to refrain from watering their lawns or washing their cars. It is a drought unlike any other the Midwestern states have seen since weather records started being kept. Why is mankind waiting until the tipping point
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5 reasons for Spain's colossal economic troubles
Madrid :: Spain | 10 months ago
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Last Friday, Spain finally got approval from the eurozone to use a €100 billion ($121 billion) lifeline to prop up its banks weighed down with toxic assets from an unprecedented property boom that imploded. Spanish officials had
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Malcolm Gladwell writing book on underdogs
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 months ago
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The Tipping Point" author Malcolm Gladwell will next take on the eternal clash between overdogs and underdogs. Little Brown and Company announced Monday that Gladwell's "David and Goliath" is scheduled to come out in 2013...Gladwell has been a staff
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They Call Her Cartoon Girl
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
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The piece, choreographed by Bommer Yemini's dance teacher mother Nadine, sees the 12-year-old transforming her body into a marionette's. She tips and twists like a doll, recontextualizing a prop from a lollipop to a paddle at one point and seeming to
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Opinion: The end is nigh. Seriously.
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
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In countless cartoons, there's a guy in a robe and long beard who's walking around carrying a sign saying The End Is Nigh. The joke is that he's ridiculous some loony who takes the Book of Revelation literally. But what if the joke's on us? The June
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Tony Bates Joins Tipping Point Community Board of Directors
Francisco :: IN :: USA | 11 months ago
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Tipping Point Community, the Bay Area's leading poverty-fighting organization, today announced that Tony Bates , President of the Skype Division at Microsoft, joined its board of directors. Bates is the seventeenth member of the nonprofit board,
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