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Sources: United Nations; Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United Nations; CIA; Department of Defense; UNICEF; Iraq: A Country Study, published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress; Europa Regional Surveys of the World, 2003; Atlas of World History...
Un’ altra Europa è possibile was the banner under which half-a-million people occupied the piazzas of Florence last month. The march capped a five day conference of intellectuals, trade-unionists and activists assembled as the European Social Forum. Events sparkled with gaiety and giddy energy, contrasting sharply with fresh memories of the 2001 Genoa G8 summit street-battle that resulted in hundreds of hospitalizations and one demonstrator shot dead by the Italian military police. The Forum marked the arrival of a new European left...
...Social Forum in Brazil. The expectation of violence lay in the mischaracterization of the gathering as a “no-global” action. The people were the same. So were the slogans. But the purpose at hand was new: craft a positive vision. Un’ altra Europa è possibile, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? Florence was the logical culmination of the battles in Seattle and Genoa, but it demonstrated a different sort of political willpower. The new European left showed itself capable of sustaining political energy in the absence...
...existence. But if that water can range from frigid to boiling, and if burial underground isn't a problem, then it's not crazy to think that life exists in the permafrost beneath the surface of Mars, or in the ice-capped ocean that may encircle Jupiter's moon Europa, or in the seas that may exist on Saturn's moon Titan. Indeed, NASA considers extremophiles so relevant to its search for life in the universe that in 1997 it created the Astrobiology Institute at its Ames Research Center near San Francisco, devoted in part to the study of these...
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