AIDS, TB Patients Not Forgotten During Liberia's Ebola Crisis
Source: Voice of America Country: Liberia Jennifer Lazuta September 24, 2014 9:10 AM DAKAR, SENEGAL— With health clinics closed and people afraid to come in for treatment, Liberia's national AIDS commission says they are now going door-to-door to get people to come take their antiretroviral medicati ...
Land Eviction Breeds Violence in Oil-Rich Hoima, Uganda
Source: Voice of America Country: Uganda Lizabeth Paulat September 24, 2014 1:04 PM HOIMA, UGANDA.— Land disputes in western Uganda's Lake Albertine region have become common in recent years. The discovery of oil and the building of refineries and waste facilities have raised the stakes in these dis ...
What Arab partners will get in return for strikes on Syria
By Lars Berger The decision by President Obama to launch missile and air strikes against Islamic State (IS) and the al-Qaeda affiliate “ Khorasan” in Syria draws the United States ever closer to yet another prolonged military confrontation in the region. But there’s a difference this time: the parti ...
FUTURISM UPDATE (September 25, 2014)
FUTURISM UPDATE (September 25, 2014) LINKEDIN: “Litmus-Testing Your Corporate Strategy Into For-Cash Victory!” by http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140924064538-344.….sh-victory FAST COMPANY: DHL Will Begin Testing Drones (Flying Robots) Deliveries On Friday http://www.fastcompany.com/3036215/ ...
[GUEST POST] Steven Gould on Reality, Verisimilitude, Imagination, and Exclusion
Steven Gould is the author of Jumper, Wildside, Helm, Blind Waves, Reflex, Jumper: Griffin’s Story, 7th Sigma, Impulse, and Exo as well as several short stories published in Analog, Asimov’s, and Amazing, and other magazines and anthologies. He is the recipient of the Hal Clement Young Adult Award f ...
Clinton Announces Global Initiative to Educate Girls
Source: Voice of America Country: World VOA News September 24, 2014 5:15 PM Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton has announced a $600 million effort to help girls around the world enroll in secondary schools. She unveiled the plan Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting ...
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Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝) and the Triumph of Christian Conscience Over Worldly “Obedience”
As spiritual preparation for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (collectively, the “Days of Awe”), the Selichot — prayers and liturgical songs of repentance — are recited and sung on four days before Rosh Hashanah, which is the Jewish New Year or Day of Deliverance [1] that began tod ...
SF/F/H Link Post for 2014-09-25
Interviews & Profiles Diabolical Plots interviews Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Sword. EW interviews Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen about the S.H.I.E.L.D. premiere, “Shadows.” Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Kurt Schuett, author of Insurgency. My Bookish Ways interviews Jan DeLima, author of ...
Royalties by Andy Marx Excerpt, Interview & Giveaway
Royalties by Andy Marx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BLURB: America has never seen anything to match the innovation, energy, romance, and excitement of the 20th Century. And the embodiment of all this is Eve Solomon, a young woman who embraces the vitality of the times with a fervor. Determined to make a name for h ...
Why America Loves Israel, Israel Loves Us, and Europe Hates Us Both
Begin with the obvious: the 180-degree disconnect between America’s and so much of Europe’s attitude toward Israel, as evidence, most recently, by Congress’s September 18 unanimous vote declaring Israel a “major strategic partner.” But in Europe ...
‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’: James Spader On His Villain Role; Captain America, Thor And Hawkeye May Get A New Look
"Avengers: Age of Ultron" is one of the most anticipated movies of 2015. Speculations, rumours, potential plot details continue to pop up and flood the internet. The star studded sequel of 2012's "The Avengers" will see the return of the main cast ...
