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The Onion: “Our Dumb World.” Focus on Tibet. Darn funny.
http://www.theonion.com/content/atlas/
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When I saw the headline I thought - impossible - the writer is promising too much…but the advice is damn good and who knows, maybe with enough dedication and effort, it is possible to…
Become Fluent In A Foreign Language In 6 Months Or Less
http://matadorstudy.com/10-steps-to-becoming-fluent-in-a-language-in-6-months-or-less/
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New technology in the Congo finds villages and people no one knew of before. Double edge sword. They discovered more rainforest. Problem is the GPS surveys were for logging interests. BBC World News site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7355335.stm
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Bestselling author Amy Tan has an article in the latest issue of National Geographic (May 2008) about an isolated farming community in the Chinese province of Guizhou. Tan writes about how the Dong minority that lives there is coping with entering the modern world.
The link has the full text of the article, but not all the pictures that are in the magazine.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/05/china/guizhou/amy-tan-text
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Great articles! Thanks for the links guys (and gal).
Found a great one “How the Rich Starved the World”
http://newstatesman.com/200804170025↵ -
Hey Chrysser, want to go scouting in the Congo? Thanks for the link!
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You got it Tim…ought to be lots of cool amphibians there….and saddly the last two
members of the North African rhinocerous:(….civil war and illegal trade in rhino horn have pretty much sealed their fate.↵ -
Some of the more unconventional vagabonds:
http://www.keepingpaceinjapan.com/2008/04/unconventional-vagabonds.html
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Really interesting (related) reads about media propaganda…
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/20/nyt/
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This is a GEM. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”
A quote: “We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.”
http://husseini.org/2007/01/martin-luther-king-jr-why-i-am.html
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