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Nuclear Calendar -- November 20, 2014 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- November 20, 2014 -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Nov. 3-Dec. 9 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization conducts a full-scale simulation of an on-site inspection, ...
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This is Your Ocean on Acid | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- October 13, 2014 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Oct. 13, 2014 Friends Committee on National Legislation Sept. 19-Nov. 11 House and Senate Election Day recess. Oct. 7-15 General Assembly's First Committee (Disarmament and ...
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Ebola still rampant in three African countries, death toll near 4,000 - WHO | Tom Miles
GENEVA, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed 3,879 people out of 8,033 cases by the end of Oct. 5, with no evidence that the epidemic was being brought under control in ...
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U.S. Estimates 1.4 Million Ebola Cases in Worst Scenario | Kelly Gilblom and Caroline Chen
Ebola virus. Photo credit: NPR Sept. 23, 2014 (Bloomberg) -- Without better containment of the Ebola outbreak, there may be 550,000 to 1.4 million cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone by January, ...
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Ebola Worst-Case Scenario Has More Than 500,000 Cases | Caroline Chen, Brendan Greeley and Kelly Gilblom
Ebola virus Sept. 20, 2014 (Bloomberg) -- The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could spread to hundreds of thousands more people by the end of January, according to an estimate under development by the ...
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The Earth Baked in Record Fashion This Summer | Brian K. Sullivan
Sept. 19, 2014 -- According to the National Climatic Data Center, the Earth had its warmest June through August on record, Bloomberg News reports. The combined land and ocean temperature for the ...
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Nazi Germany, Holy Grail, and Myths of Racial Superiority | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 20, 2014 With rare exceptions, humans are not driven to commit atrocities. With rare exceptions, humans can be driven to commit atrocities. ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- August 15, 2014 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- August 15, 2014 -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Aug. 2-Sept. 7 House of Representatives and Senate summer recesses. Aug. 11-22 U.N. Office for Disarmament ...
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Dark Age America: The Rising Oceans | John Michael Greer
Credited to ideas.etublogs.usj.edu.lbAug. 6, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- The vagaries of global climate set in motion by our species’ frankly brainless maltreatment of the only atmosphere we’ve got, ...
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Women, Science, Health: 20 Years, Little Progress | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mikey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Activists for social justice need to look critically at who stands to gain, and who stands to lose, from each specific technical innovation, and ...
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