Opportunities and challenges in South–South collaboration

Seeded on Mon May 19, 2008 12:42 PM EDT (SciDev.Net)

"[Research collaboration between developing countries] is now growing in scientific and economic importance, and can promote research on problems that have low priorities in the [developed countries] ...

development, research, science, policy, collaboration

Preventing Another Genocide

Seeded on Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:37 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The international community must find more effective ways to pressure Khartoum. Beijing and Russia must suspend arms sales; the U.S. must keep sanctions in place.

war-crimes, sudan, international-relations, opinion, nytimes, editorials, united-states-economy, genocide-and-crimes-against-humanity, civil-war-and-guerrilla-warfare, arms-sales-abroad

Sharing the Pain

Seeded on Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:25 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The economic pain and anxiety felt for so long by the poor and the near-poor has been spreading like a stain in the middle class as well. It's hardly been a secret.

labor, poverty, john-edwards, democratic-party, income, opinion, nytimes, united-states-economy, presidential-election-of-2008

The Road to Dystopia

Seeded on Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:37 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Immigration zealotry is sending the country into a world of ingrained suspicion, routine discrimination and economic disruption.

illegal-immigrants, deportation, opinion, nytimes, editorials, united-states-politics-and-government, drivers-licenses, social-security-us, states-us

Judith Jamison to Retire in 2011

Seeded on Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:55 AM EST (The New York Times)

Ms. Jamison plans to maintain her connection to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which she joined as a dancer in 1965, as artistic director emerita.

dancing, dance, retirement, arts, ailey, nytimes, alvin, american-dance-theater, judith-jamison

Americans Change Faiths at Rising Rate, Report Finds

Seeded on Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:33 PM EST (The New York Times)

More than a quarter of adult Americans have left the faith of their childhood to join another religion or no religion, a survey says.

us, united-states, nytimes, religion-and-churches

Stuck Inside of Memphis With the Oscar Blues Again

Seeded on Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:11 PM EST (The New York Times)

Memphis, perhaps, should be more Oscar-conscious than it is.

culture, opinion, motion-pictures, nytimes, academy-awards-oscars, memphis-tenn

Look, Up in the Sky!

Seeded on Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:58 PM EST (The New York Times)

As details emerged, the Pentagon's plan to shoot down an intelligence-gathering satellite began to seem somewhat less attractive.

defense-department, international-relations, opinion, satellites, nytimes, united-states-armament-and-defense, missiles-and-missile-defense-systems

Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home

Seeded on Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:44 PM EST (The New York Times)

If you can't manage a trip abroad to learn a foreign language, the Internet and a broadband computer connection may do the job, too.

business, washington-state, nytimes, computers-and-the-internet, language-and-languages, shanghai-china, livemocha, tutors-and-tutoring, cd-rom-compact-disk-read-only-memory, praxis-language

As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises

Seeded on Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:23 AM EST (The New York Times)

The federal government, contractually obligated to bury the waste, is at least 20 years behind schedule.

us, radiation, nytimes, suits-and-litigation, politics-and-government, waste-materials-and-disposal

Gatsby's Green Light Beckons a New Set of Strivers

Seeded on Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:15 AM EST (The New York Times)

Urban students see glimmers of their own evolving identities and dreams in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel.

education, nytimes, f-scott-fitzgerald, education-and-schools, books-and-literature, immigration-and-refugees, boston-latin-school

In Oil-Rich Mideast, Shades of the Ivy League

Seeded on Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:11 AM EST (The New York Times)

Education City, the largest enclave of American schools overseas, has become the elite of Qatari education.

education, qatar, united-arab-emirates, ivy-league, nytimes, colleges-and-universities, united-states-international-relations, medical-schools, americans-abroad

The First Ache

Seeded on Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:55 AM EST (The New York Times)

When does the experience of pain begin? Anti-abortionactivists aren't the only ones to argue that it may be inthe womb.

doctors, women, abortion, magazine, babies, nytimes, infertility, medicine-and-health, surgery-and-surgeons, pregnancy-and-obstetrics

Toward Drug Case Justice

Seeded on Sat Feb 9, 2008 2:50 PM EST (The New York Times)

Attorney General Michael Mukasey's alarm at a plan that attempts to address the gross disparity in penalties for possession of crack is unwarranted.

opinion, nytimes, editorials, united-states-sentencing-commission, cocaine-and-crack-cocaine, drug-abuse-and-traffic, michael-b-mukasey, house-committee-on-the-judiciary

A Tiny Staff, Tracking People Across the Globe

Seeded on Mon Feb 4, 2008 8:02 AM EST (The New York Times)

An online journal has been followed worldwide by scholars, policy makers and the occasional migrant in distress.

washington, magazines, sociology, nytimes, immigration-and-refugees

What's Cholesterol Got to Do With It?

Seeded on Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:41 PM EST (The New York Times)

The truth is, we've always had reason to question the idea that cholesterol is an agent of disease.

cholesterol, health, disease, heart, medicine, opinion, nytimes, food-and-drug-administration, national-institutes-of-health, medicine-and-health

Passing the Buck on Environmental Damage

Seeded on Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:34 PM EST (Science: Current Issue)

Humans inflicted $47 trillion worth of damage to the environment from 1961 to 2000, according to a new study, and poor nations are disproportionately footing the bill.

global-warming, development, environment, poverty, science, climate-change, sustainable-development

Radical Love Gets a Holiday

Seeded on Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:51 AM EST (The New York Times)

There's a pleasing symmetry in Ronald Reagan forking over a day to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

politics, blacks, king, government, reagan, opinion, nytimes, united-states-politics-and-government, ronald-wilson-reagan, martin-luther-jr-king

Until All the Fish Are Gone

Seeded on Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:29 AM EST (The New York Times)

It would be hard to frame the problem of overfishing more dramatically than two recent articles in The Times detailing the disastrous consequences of often illegal industrial fishing.

market, trade, fish, environment, science, opinion, oceans, fishing, commercial, nytimes

Frontline Blogger Covers War in Iraq With a Soldier's Eyes

Seeded on Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:25 AM EST (The New York Times)

A former Special Forces soldier has created a loyal following on the Web with his accounts of frontline soldiers' daily work in Iraq.

media, business, iraq, blogs, internet, news, world-news, nytimes, michael-yon, blogs-and-blogging-internet

Undaunted Director at Indian Museum

Seeded on Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:16 AM EST (The New York Times)

It was not exactly a welcome mat that greeted Kevin Gover, the new director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

indians, museums, american, design, government, arts, nytimes, indian-museum, national-museum-of-the-american-indian, united-states-politics-and-government

Capacity building: The road from Rio

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:01 PM EST (News at Nature)

Are think-tanks staffed by scientists a luxury that only rich nations can afford? Ehsan Masood meets the founders of four institutes that set out to help poorer nations to think for themselves.

development, poverty, science, think-tank, capacity-building

Neglected Diseases and Poverty in "The Other America": The Greatest Health Disparity in the United States?

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:58 PM EST (PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases)

In 1962, an estimated 40 million Americans lived in poverty, almost one-quarter of the US population.

america, health, disease, poverty, medicine

Filariasis in Travelers Presenting to the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:53 PM EST (PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases)

As international travel increases, there is rising exposure to many pathogens not traditionally encountered in the resource-rich countries of the world.

health, disease, medicine, filariasis

Plague: Past, Present, and Future

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:34 PM EST ()

Plague may not match the so-called "big three" diseases (malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis; see for example [62]) in numbers of current cases, but it far exceeds them in pathogenicity and rapid spread under the right conditions.

health, disease, medicine, epidemiology, plague, black-death

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