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Grain prices soared to record levels last year (2008), causing riots and hoarding in some countries, and sparking a move to import-dependent rich countries to secure farmland in mainly poorer regions to ease food security. According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation, an arm of the UN, the global food crisis is worsening. In 2009, over 1 billion people were undernourished globally, up from 873 million in 2004-2006; the ...

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Humanity’s Right to Life Climate change is already causing enormous damage and hundreds of millions of poor people are enduring the consequences. The most advanced research centers have claimed that there is little time to avoid an irreversible catastrophe. James Hansen, from the NASA Goddard Institute, has said that a proportion of 350 parts of carbon dioxide by million is still tolerable; however, the figure today is 390 and growing at ...

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CFP : Intimacy: Family, Fealty, and Friendship in the Middle Ages, New York, 12 March, 2010

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S ource : Medieval News . The City University of New York - Graduate Center in New York is hosting the Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies on Friday, March 12, 2010. The theme for this year's conference is Intimacy : Family, Fealty, and Friendship in the Middle Ages . Organizers provided these details about the conference : "According to Aristotle, the social unit upon which political states ...

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Login Get your own Posterous Travelingking Don't just see the world---Experience it! Back to blog Viewed 22 times Favorited 0 times December 27, 2009 10 Friendliest Countires in the World Another great article by Rebecca Ruiz! She knows her stuff and does great research (okay, I m biased!...She once asked me for info in an article!):     ...

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