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...Sierra Leone as their country, not the north or the south as theirs,” said Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier in Sierra Leone’s 11-year-long civil war. “If we have schools in the south, let’s build some in the north. Together, we can maximize...
While the panelists agreed that it’s important for outsiders to build schools and supply scholarships, they stressed the necessity of empowering Sierra Leoneans—not making them dependent on charity...
...place. To bring this balance to the furthest end of the spectrum, we have an obligation to make a move that is both beneficial for the environement and for local communities. The Cape Wind project would be that sort of win-win situation.The Cape Wind project has proposed to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound, the body of water south of the mainland of Cape Cod, bordered by Martha’s Vineyard to the west and Nantucket to the Southeast. When fully running, this project would meet three quarters of the electricity needs of Cape...
Consider the reason given at yesterday's briefing in Washington for the North's motivation in helping Syria build a reactor: "Cash," said a CIA official. The North is a gangster state. It earns hard currency anyway it can-including selling weapons and its expertise in producing them. The point of the diplomacy is give Kim sufficient incentives-both economic and diplomatic-to get to a point where he and his regime don't need to do that anymore to survive. A return to what used to be called, in the early years of the Bush Administration, a "strangulation" strategy...
...talks with the U.S. and four other negotiating partners (China, Russia, Japan and South Korea). In a convincing presentation to reporters in Washington, the Administration produced damning photographic evidence of what has been whispered about for seven months now: North Korea was intimately involved in helping Syria build a plutonium-fueled nuclear reactor, "basically a copy of Yongbyon," one Administration official told TIME...