so unnerved!

Quoted: Tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenya’s president, have fled because of ethnic violence.

Quoted: "Rather than a single transaction demonstrating that this all can be done, we are putting together a comprehensive risk management framework for droughts and for ...

Quoted: That is why this year's price rise has been so extraordinary. Since the spring, wheat prices have doubled and almost every crop under the sun—maize, milk, oilseeds, you name it—is at or near a peak in nominal terms. The Economist's food-price index is higher today than at any time since it was created in 1845 (see chart). Even in real terms, prices have jumped by 75% since 2005.

Quoted: Think of Dogster as Facebook for canines. There, my dogs (along with 346,639 other four-legged members, as of last week) had their own profile pages ...

good job by Moveon and the 65,000 facebookers who signed the petition!

quoted: Facebook users protested Beacon as a flagrant violation of privacy. The program enables Facebook to track their purchases and other actions at dozens of Web sites and then broadcast the data within its social network as items on other users'"news feeds."

"We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them," Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook's blog. "We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it."

Empowering to users block Beacon entirely "is big step in the right direction, and we hope it begins an industrywide trend that puts the basic rights of Internet users ahead of the wish lists of corporate advertisers," said Adam Green, a spokesman for MoveOn.org.

MoveOn, an advocacy group, organized a petition against Beacon that more than 65,000 Facebook users signed.

different perspective on China's business model and the land of opportunity in Sudan by Mahmoud A. Suleiman

“One World, One Dream" is China’s slogan for its 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. But there is one nightmare that China shouldn’t be allowed to sweep under the rug. That nightmare is Darfur, where more than 400,000 people have been killed and more than two-and-a-half million driven from flaming villages by the Chinese-backed government of Sudan. China is pouring billions of dollars into Sudan. Beijing purchases an overwhelming part of Sudan’s oil exports and state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation, an official partner of the upcoming Olympic Games, owns the largest shares in each of Sudan’s two major oil consortia. China has been indirectly funding the Sudanese government’s war effort in Darfur by massively investing in Sudan’s oil industry.

closing the gap...I hope they will get the funding soon!

Quoted: The initiative has proved so successful that four of South Africa's neighbouring countries - Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi and Swaziland - have entered into a partnership with MiET to develop similar programmes.

But the future of South Africa's SCCS initiative is shadowed by doubt, as MiET only has funding until 2009 to establish the programme in 1,192 primary schools in the two provinces.

"We are busy capacitating people, but there is only money until 2009. What will happen then?" said Aubrey Kgobokoe, a SCCS training coordinator in North West. "It should be rolled out in all schools, so that teenagers will also benefit. Are we going to have to leave those who have yet to benefit to fend for themselves?"

Pete you might find this interesting
urbanization without effective planning on infrastructure (speciifcally roads)...this issue is very common in a lot of major African cities (from what I have seen so far)...disparity in urbanization and displacement (eviction) of many poors living in major cities.

Quoted: Central Abuja looks like a modern capital with wide streets and a skyline with spectacular public buildings. But four years after a massive urban demolition programme began in 2003, little progress has been made in resettling the roughly 800,000 people that the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) estimate have been displaced.

Quoted: Mr. Pitt commissioned 13 architecture firms to help rebuild New Orleans’s impoverished Lower Ninth Ward.