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Another worrying aspect comes in the westerly shift of deforestation. Thursday's figures show a large increase in forest degradation in Rondonia, a remote state bordering Bolivia. Rondonia had avoided much of the destruction but the new figures show that deforestation there is almost equal to that in Para, a state five times the size...
...endorsing a particular candidate in the '08 election? -Haren Para, New York CityNo, but I like Hillary. I think she was already our President once. [Laughs...
...Counter penned a lengthy article in The Crisis, a magazine published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In it, he suggested that certain “para-white ethnic groups” influence the media to denigrate blacks and “to convince themselves and others of their imagined white identity.” One can only guess of whom he might have been thinking...
...When we started publishing, we came to the question that we need readers. What is the point of publishing these books if you have no readers?” she said through a translator. From this question came their educational project “Libros, un modelo para armar.” The project, a partnership between Sarita Cartonera and the Museo de Arte de San Marcos in Lima, involved seminars meant to educate high school teachers on how to present literature as a personally relevant art form. In the context of this project, the cardboard covers took...
...Congress must also consider whether to ratify a free trade agreement signed between the Bush Administration and the Colombian government last year. Defense Minister Santos recently returned from a trip to Washington, London and Brussels where he presented Plan Colombia II. The the para-politica scandal, as it has come to be known, may still mean it will be a hard sell, said Santos, but the foreign minister's resignation "makes my job a bit easier...