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...Indeed, the desire to remind people - and corporations - that design matters is what spurred design consultant Ursache to start a petition asking Ikea to do away with the offensive Verdana typeface. "Look, I know this isn't world hunger," he says. "But if a company like Ikea can make this mistake, you have to wonder who is going to lead when it comes to design." (Read "Furniture for Everyone...
...awareness campaign highlighting the risks of legal drugs, especially when they are mixed with alcohol, will kick off in September to coincide with the start of the university year. The U.K.'s drug czar, David Nutt, said in a statement that the drug advisory council would continue looking into other legal highs throughout the next year. At the top of the list will be mephedrone and its derivatives. Mephedrone, which can be used as plant food, is sold on legal-high sites as an alternative to cocaine. (See a graphic on addiction and the brain...
...Tolerance," but it was less a personal discussion of his faith than a chance to prove that he wasn't afraid to show up in the lions' den. In a speech that went after critics in the Religious Right, Kennedy quoted Pope John XXIII's words at the start of the Second Vatican Council: "We must beware of those who burn with zeal but are not endowed with much sense...
...policing by Twitter," a first for London's Metropolitan Police. Environmental campaigners had announced plans to set up a 3,000-person-strong "camp for climate action" in the British capital on Aug. 26. In the days leading up to the event, police and protesters both promised to start tweeting information to ensure its peaceful running. "We set up a Twitter site specifically," says Chief Superintendent Helen Ball, the Met officer charged with explaining the purportedly high-tech, low-visibility operational policy. "The use of Twitter is within a range of different communication methods, improving understanding of why police...
...program director of international relations at Regents College in London. "That climbdown requires that small, careful steps be taken at a consistent pace. Today we're talking about settlement freezes, which is nothing compared to questions like Jerusalem, border placement or the fate of refugees. But you have to start somewhere." (Read "The Six Issues That Divide Bibi from Barack...