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    Apr 5, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Ehrlich should clarify his Chávez comments

    I teach at Towson University in the College of Liberal Arts, where it is part of our core mission to help students develop their critical thinking abilities — a skills platform essential for career advancement. One key skill is finding the best...

    Tags: Executive Branch, Education, Venezuela, Colleges and Universities, Politics

    2. Mar 29, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. BRICS in the development wall: Competing interests

    Barely a decade old, the BRICS alliance forged to challenge Western-dominated global economic strategy may already have outlived its purpose.
    Barely a decade old, the BRICS alliance forged to challenge Western-dominated global economic strategy may already have outlived its purpose. The collaborative five-country bloc that came together to create a counterweight to the Group of 7 rich-...

    Tags: Emerging Market, NATO, Cyprus, Finance, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

    3. Mar 29, 2013 |Story| Aberdeen News

  3. Spotlight on economics: Global food security in 2050

    The book, “Who Will Feed China?: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet,” authored by Lester Brown in 1995, was a surprising wake-up call about world food security. Brown claimed that food production was not growing fast enough to feed China's increasing...

    Tags: United States Census Bureau, Global Change, Weather Reports, Asia, Population and Census

    4. Mar 16, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Burkina Faso's film industry reemerges with a populist bent

    OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The film festival crowd had filled the last seats in the Cine Neerwaya and, when there was no room left, sat four abreast in the aisles. The opening credits hardly dimmed the buzz in the theater; for those who missed a...

    Tags: International Monetary Fund, Politics, National Government, Cinema Industry, Arts and Culture

    5. Mar 7, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Hugo Chavez's legacy

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday of cancer at age 58, was beloved and reviled, bombastic and provocative, a flamboyant figure who was vastly influential in his country and throughout the region.
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday of cancer at age 58, was beloved and reviled, bombastic and provocative, a flamboyant figure who was vastly influential in his country and throughout the region. The former paratrooper-turned-populist...

    Tags: George W. Bush, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Iraq

    6. Feb 25, 2013 |Column| Petoskey News

  6. The end of upward mobility

    As Americans we like to think we with live in the land of opportunity where hard work and diligence pay off with a rise up the social and economic ladder to a standard of living that's the envy of the world. It's a myth. It's not that we don't want that,...

    Tags: Economic Organization, Colleges and Universities, Australia, The New York Times, Students

    7. Feb 13, 2013 |Story| AM News

  7. The great deficit debate: looking for money in all the wrong places

    Contributing Columnist
    For the last two years we’ve heard the same mantra from the GOP and its mouthpiece, FOX News: “We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.” It’s usually said with solemnity and sometimes a hint of compassion, as if the...

    Tags: Heritage Foundation, Defense, The Wall Street Journal, Afghanistan, Medicare

    8. Jan 23, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. A.W. 'Tom' Clausen dies at 89; longtime Bank of America leader

    A.W. "Tom" Clausen, a no-nonsense Midwesterner who led San Francisco-based Bank of America before and after serving as president of the World Bank, died Monday at a hospital in Burlingame, Calif. He was 89.
    A.W. "Tom" Clausen, a no-nonsense Midwesterner who led San Francisco-based Bank of America before and after serving as president of the World Bank, died Monday at a hospital in Burlingame, Calif. He was 89. The cause was complications from pneumonia,...

    Tags: Economic Organization, Earnings, International Economic Institution, Los Angeles Times, Pneumonia

    9. Jan 23, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. World Bank invests in Baltimore-based Laureate Education

    A division of the World Bank Group announced Wednesday that it has invested $150 million in Laureate Education Inc., giving the international development organization a small stake in the Baltimore-based global higher education company. "It's an...

    Tags: Economic Organization, International Economic Institution, Career and Workplace, Saudi Arabia, International Organizations

    10. Jan 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. In Africa, resilient Al Qaeda flaunts power to terrorize

    A deadly hostage-taking at an Algerian gas complex and an armed international confrontation in Mali herald the opening of another front in the global war on terrorism and serve as stark reminders that Al Qaeda retains the power to inflict death and disorder despite the loss of its leader.
    A deadly hostage-taking at an Algerian gas complex and an armed international confrontation in Mali herald the opening of another front in the global war on terrorism and serve as stark reminders that Al Qaeda retains the power to inflict death and...

    Tags: Defense, Mali, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Religious Conflicts

    11. Jan 9, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Jamaica's real problem

    The Tuesday Tribune editorial (“Jamaica’s debt hurricane,” Jan. 8) calling Jamaica the Greece-like poor man of the Western Hemisphere misses the opportunity to call attention to a major reason for Jamaica's poor economic performance....

    Tags: Cruise Ship Jobs, Jamaica, Tour Operations Industry

    12. Dec 26, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Study links disease, poverty and biodiversity

    Poverty and disease often come together. That much is well understood.
    Poverty and disease often come together. That much is well understood. But how much does poverty foster disease? Or, how much can disease perpetuate poverty? And what’s the role of nature, given that so many infectious diseases are spread by...

    Tags: Social Issues, Marine Science, Diseases and Illnesses, Hookworm, Harvard Medical School

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