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...white refugee tents pitched in London's Trafalgar Square this week are meant to underscore a stark message: more people than ever before are being forced by war, famine or natural disaster to flee their homes. In the run-up to World Refugee Day on June 20, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said that the UNHCR last year cared for 25.1 million refugees and internally displaced people. That is the highest level of need ever recorded in the agency's 57-year history - 10% more than in 2006 - and the upward trend is bound to continue...
This month millions of American kids flee the tyranny of the classroom bell for lifeguard stands, grandparents' homes and sleepaway camps. But summer vacation hasn't always been a birthright of U.S. schoolchildren. In the decades before the Civil War, schools operated on one of two calendars, neither of which included a summer hiatus. Rural schooling was divided into summer and winter terms, leaving kids free to pitch in with the spring planting and fall harvest seasons. Urban students, meanwhile, regularly endured as many as 48 weeks of study a year, with one break per quarter. (Since education...
...algae in the water. When the algae die and decompose, the process sucks all the oxygen out of the surrounding waters, leading to a hypoxic event - better known as a "dead zone." The water becomes as barren as the surface of the moon. What sea life that can flee the zone does so; what can't, dies...
...More than 1.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes across nine provinces, including Sichuan, which is still reeling from last month's earthquake that killed almost 70,000 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said...
...founding of Israel in May 1948 is in reality one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history. Those who reside in the West Bank and Gaza as well as the millions of refugees forced to flee and never allowed to return acknowledge the day for what it is: the catastrophe. The continued violation of Palestinian human rights is clear and well-documented, albeit ferociously undermined and consciously distorted by Israel and Israel's U.S. supporters. It is ironic that 2008 is also the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the apartheid regime in South Africa, which only lasted...