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international / environment Thursday October 11, 2007 - 23:10 by Tech1.0
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(from last week's New Scientist - I'm publishing this in the inter-national public interest...) "We don’t need environmental evangelicals to tell us that sustainable development is a good idea. Yet, if that is our goal, we are heading in the wrong direction - with the exception of Cuba. So says the first study to examine the ecological impact of changing lifestyles around the globe. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Thursday October 11, 2007 - 19:09 by C Murray
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The Long Room library in TCD is exhibiting the Annals of the Four Masters until the 21st of December 2007. http://www.tcd.ie/library/heritage/events.php http://www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Four_Masters They date from 2242 to 1616. Trinity has also got Piers Plowman amongst other books, however you need a special permission to access some of the texts or be a student in the Lit Dept. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 11, 2007 - 15:24 by guild of assassins
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......"If you're going to tell people they're wrong & unsportsmanlike you have to direct their energies elsewhere"..... I realise & so do other regular contributors that there's a lot of anti-China sentiment floating about. It's quite understandable considering the Mattel Toy corporation scandal earlier this year which misled the world into thinking they were expected to send back their Barbie dolls because Chinese factory workers had poisoned them, only to learn later it was Mattel Toy Corp's manufacturing instructions which were at fault. & of course since the mid-19th century it was been impossible to treat on anti-chinese sentiment without mentioning Lama-ism. So a spot of news for those who hold Lama-ism in great esteem. "The democratically-elected Tibetan government-in-exile (TGIE) has challenged China over a new law designed to limit Tibetan Buddhism’s role in identifying reincarnated lamas." ... read full story / add a comment |
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