Creeping Islamization in Gaza?
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=437317
Gazan Bar Association resists hijab for women lawyers
Reports of Prison Abuse and Deaths Anger Iranians
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/world/middleeast/30iran.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
The strike's over. The real trouble is just beginning
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/the-real-trouble-is-just-beginning/article1234424
A day after a tentative deal to end the five-week city strike, it's time to look at the big picture. What was gained in the longest strike on record by city workers? Where exactly does this leave us as a city?
The unfortunate answer: not much better off than we were when it all started. Even with the long-term savings the city hopes to achieve by phasing out the archaic system of bankable sick days for its workers, Toronto is heading toward a cliff.
The city has an annual budget shortfall of up to $500-million. Its costs are soaring as welfare payments increase in hard times. Its ability to raise taxes is limited after two unpopular tax hikes – on land transfers and vehicle registration – imposed under Mayor David Miller. The provincial government, Toronto's fiscal saviour in the past, faces a huge deficit of its own.
Crackdown on sunbeds to cut cancer danger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/29/tanning-sunbeds-cancer
Crackdown on sunbeds to cut cancer danger
Government review after worldwide study shows risk as high as tobacco
In Venezuela, Plantations of Cacao Stir Bitterness
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/world/americas/29cacao.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Kai Rosenberg : So far this decade, squatters have tried to wrest control of his land, a fungus nearly wiped out his entire crop, government inspectors have solicited bribes and export officials have given him countless headaches with demands for a barrage of permits.
Even worse, intruders armed with machine guns broke into his house one night. In the struggle that ensued, he said, one shot him in the throat. Evacuated by helicopter, he recovered after six operations. But he went back to growing the Venezuelan cacao bean, the raw ingredient for chocolate coveted in Europe and the United States.
Venezuela produces about the same amount of cacao as it did three centuries ago: 15,000 tons a year, less than 1 percent of global cacao output. But that amount stirs the passions of critics and devotees, turning a luxury crop destined for foreigners into a contentious, and sometimes violent, political issue.
Cacao from here is so desirable that European chocolate makers sometimes engage in cut-throat competition to gain access to it.
In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/health/research/28brain.html?em
A growing body of work suggesting that the speed with which the brain reads and interprets sensations like the feelings in one’s own body and emotions in the body language of others is central to avoiding imminent threats.
The Incredible Aqualung of the Diving Bell Spider
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/incredible-aqualung-diving-bell-spider/13855
Rainbows Emerging from Inside the Iguazu Falls
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/rainbows-emerging-from-inside-the-iguazu-falls/13736
U.S.-China Meeting Renews the Dialogue
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/07/27/ST2009072702954.html
For many years, U.S. officials traveled to Beijing and lectured the Chinese about the value of their currency and the need for economic and political reforms.
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U.S.-China Meeting Renews the Dialogue
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Obama Stresses Relationship With China
On Monday, about 200 senior Chinese officials traveled to Washington and heard soothing words of reassurance from U.S. officials: The dollar is still sound, your investments are safe and we are working really hard to restructure our economy.
Such is the nature of the U.S.-China relationship today. Behind all the reassuring language is a nervous sense that the fate of the world economy is increasingly dependent on the United States and China working together.
China presses Nepal to crackdown on Tibetans: group
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072800613.html?wprss=rss_world/wires
Nepal, under increasing pressure from China, was cracking down on Tibetan refugees despite centuries of shared culture with Tibet, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said on Tuesday.
Nepali authorities have regularly broken up protests by Tibetan exiles and arrested them for protesting against China's crackdown on demonstrations in Tibet.
The Washington-based group said Tibetan refugees were "increasingly demoralized" as Nepal "relinquishes its historic and sovereign interests in response to incentivized political pressure from Beijing and its sympathizers."
ICT said "pre-emptive arrests of Tibetans, ID checks and house searches" by authorities were contributing to a "widespread sense of fear and insecurity" among the exiles.
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