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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 2 days ago | world, health, news
    Do IMF loans lead to higher rates of tuberculosis? - Slate Magazine

    An important article from Slate about the strings that are attached to IMF loans and the corner into which they back a lot of small countries & their economies.

    Quoted: Question: The International Monetary Fund often attaches strict conditions to its loans, hoping to help the economies of the recipient countries grow and become stable. For example, in order to tamp down inflation, countries have been required to limit expenditures for education, social services, and health.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 4 days ago | movies, world
    First Run Features: A JIHAD FOR LOVE

    I'm writing an article about this documentary - it looks so powerful and interesting. It's screening in Seattle starting September 5th...

    Quoted: Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam is the world's 2nd largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian & gay Muslims.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 7 days ago | world, news
    Mandela at 90 | Views | TheRoot.com

    Truly an amazing life...

    Quoted: The world statesman will celebrate his 90th birthday on Friday. And after a lifetime as a freedom fighter, he has shown the world the true power of forgiveness.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 8 days ago | immigration, world, news
    America's Immigration Lesson to Europe | Views | TheRoot.com

    I've always thought the United States has gotten a lot right in the past when it comes to immigration and tolerance of different ethnic/religious groups (Fareed Zakaria from Newsweek theorizes that's why you haven't seen homegrown attacks in the U.S. like you have in Europe). Let's hope we move forward rather than screwing it up.

    Quoted: Europe's low birthrates pose a serious threat to its economic security, making immigration crucial to its survival.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 10 days ago | world, news, media
    'Tasteless and Offensive' New Yorker Cover Riles Obama Camp | washingtonpost.com

    Eek, what was The New Yorker thinking?! I think the intended satire is totally lost in this cover... I'm curious to read more analysis of this in terms of race (for example, what's up with Michelle Obama's hair?)

    Quoted: Barack Obama's campaign sharply rebuked the New Yorker magazine for its cover this week.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 13 days ago | movies, world, global warming
    Wall-E Hates Fat People - Slate Magazine

    Now I'm even more curious to see this movie...

    Quoted: Pixar's new animated feature Wall-E is more than a great movie. According to the critics, it's a trenchant social commentary. So what is this powerful and profound message? Wall-E tells us that if we don't change the way we live, we'll all get really fat and destroy the world.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 20 2008 | food, world, books, news
    International Examiner - The Politics of Food - Shiwani Srivastava

    My International Examiner review of Raj Patel's book about the global food crisis!

    Quoted: The global food crisis certainly isn’t starved for media attention. Turn to any news organization and rising food prices are making headlines alongside the rising cost of gas. With all the recent coverage, it seems like a problem that came out of left field.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 10 2008 | world, news, politics
    Is the world ready for a black American president? - Slate Magazine

    I agree with this article - I find it tiresome how the European media harshly covers racism and immigration issues in the U.S. when it might serve them well to do a little more introspection (especially when it comes to immigration)...

    Quoted: "Will Americans vote for a black man?" I think I've been asked this question by foreigners of various origins a dozen times since the U.S. presidential campaign began in January. But contrary to European newspaper reporting, racism is not unique to the United States.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2008 | business, world, news, psychology
    How much do they procrastinate in other countries? - Slate Magazine

    Fascinating!

    Quoted: There are two dominant modes when it comes to the study of cross-cultural procrastination. The first takes the form of the international managerial missive—an ancient narrative that delineates the work and business practices of people from one culture, so that a person from another culture can do business with them. The second mode seeks to quantify, in scholarly terms (i.e., with percentages), just who in the world procrastinates and for how long.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 21 2008 | south asia, world, news
    BBC NEWS | Recycling slum in Mumbai faces redevelopment

    This is such a fascinating story and it just shows how industriousness could be nurtured into entrepreneurship if given the chance. I wonder, though, if Mumbai does redevelop this slum, whether they'll build a recycling center to fill the void...

    Quoted: Thousands of small-scale recycling factories in Asia's largest slum face an uncertain future amid plans to redevelop the area.

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