Many aid workers keep online journals called web logs, or "blogs" for short. Blogs tend to be very personal, to present unabashedly biased opinions and to be much less formal than an organization's web site. Blogs are sometimes provocative, and some may make you feel uncomfortable -- you certainly won't agree with everything you read in blogs, including those produced by aid workers. The AWN blog portal presents a range of aid worker-produced blogs from around the world. However, AWN is no...

Mahamat Ali Hassan, former Trade Minister replaces Matar Brem at the Planning and Economy Ministry. Mahamat Hissene, Communications Minister in the previous government, was not included in the new team. He is replaced by Ouaddai governor, Kedallah Younouss Hamid. Dr. Toupta Boguena, a biologist trained in the United States, who was formerly Environment advisor to outgoing Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas, is the new Health Minister, replacing Dr. Ngombaye Djaïbe. The newcomers include A...

Europeans it seems do not take kindly to Google's Street View mobiles roaming their cities taking pictures of their streets and inhabitants. Last Summer, in Bergen, Norway, Borre Erstad and Paul Åge Olsen ambushed Google’s Street View camera car last summer wearing wetsuits and wielding fishing spears. The stills taken by Street View have been doing the rounds on the internet this week. In an unrelated incident, Berliners stalked a Street View vehicle and took footage of its driver taki...

The co-chairwoman of the Blue Dog Caucus said today she will oppose the Senate version of healthcare reform if it comes up for a vote in the House. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.), who also voted against the original House bill, tolld reporters in a conference call that she oppposes the upper chamber's legislation, and she would not support any changes that come from the Senate via reconciliation. "I will not vote for the Senate bill as is," she said, according to the Rapid City...

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During his meeting with leaders of the Palestinian organizations in Damascus, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, "We are standing before the final victory." In another meeting with Syrian officials and Shi'ite, Sunni, Alawi, and Christian clerics in Syria, Ahmadinejad said that the Zionist regime was the most important tool of the satanic plan of the international arrogance, and that fighting it was the point of unity against the international ar...

This lesson looks at the effect of the human population growth on land, resources and pollution. I have also mentioned indicator species and have included a homework sheet based on lichens. The PowerPoint ‘Population Explosion’ contains all the information needed and notes to explain activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic, streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the web and discussing a unique condition with a specialist in New York. Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes. Or collaborating with classmates around the world while watching live 3-D video of a university lecture. Universal, ultra high-speed Internet access will make all this and more possible. We've urged the FCC to look at new and creative ways to get ...

Last year I was at Bangalore, participating in the Pink Chhaddi Campaign’s protest against Sri Ram sene. This year, I am home, writing GATE, feeling slightly depressed and listening to Billie Holiday crooning “Glad to be Unhappy” – sadassery eh . and yes, none of my Valentine’s day plans till date have included a woman, though it was not out of my choice . ...