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30 Sep 09

Tours to the Passion Play of Oberammergau Germany 2010

Nawas Travel is organizing trips to the 2010 Oberammergau passion play performances. This thing only happens every ten years. Supposedly they've cleaned up some of the anti-Semitic bits.

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Religious Intelligence - Welcome

I'm not sure exactly what this is. They have a Twitter stream at @ReligiousIntel.

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01 Sep 09

Educational Simulations Products: Real Lives 2010

Descripton: "Real Lives 2010 is a truly unique, content rich and empathy-building real world, real life simulation that challenges your life skills (not your hand-eye coordination) as you make difficult, high-stakes choices that lead to your success, or failure. You might be born anyone, anywhere on Earth. You might die as an infant, you might make it to old age. You might be able to marry the person of your dreams, and have a rewarding job, or you could be stuck in poverty. Be born, live an exciting life, and die. Then do it again. And again. Learn about the world as you live your Real Lives around the world, one life-altering decision at a time. Experience life as a: Peasant farmer in Bangladesh -- Factory worker in Brazil -- Policeman in Nigeria -- Lawyer in the United States -- [or] Computer operator in Poland."

www.educationalsimulations.com/products.html - Preview

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12 Jul 09

Question Box - All About Question Box

A service that provides a sort of "virtual" internet link to locations with no internet access in the form of an intercom manned by a person with a net-connected computer.

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19 Apr 09

David Cohen, "Earth's natural wealth: an audit," NewScientist.com news service (May 23, 2007)

From the article: "Without more recycling, antimony, which is used to make flame retardant materials, will run out in 15 years, silver in 10 and indium in under five.... He estimates that zinc could be used up by 2037, both indium and hafnium - which is increasingly important in computer chips - could be gone by 2017, and terbium - used to make the green phosphors in fluorescent light bulbs - could run out before 2012."

www.science.org.au/...027ns_005.htm - Preview

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14 Jan 07

World Religion Day 2007

I don't know what this is about ... appears to be a Baha'i thing.

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10 Jan 07

An inconvenient truth Al Gore left out of his movie

According to this writer, Gore never really comes clean in his film about precisely how much sacrifice will be required of residents of industrialized countries if we are to stop global warming. Estimates suggest we'd have to cut CO2 emissions by 90%. Som

www.alternet.org/...46318 - Preview

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29 Nov 06

New study predicts long-term worsening weather

New study finds an ongoing recent trend towards increasing numbers of "extreme weather events" (droughts, storms, heat waves), accompanied by high levels of human suffering and economic damage, and predicts this trend will accelerate in the coming decades

www.msnbc.msn.com/...newsweek - Preview

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25 Nov 06

Major energy firms don't dispute climate change

Shell and Duke (a coal-based energy corporation) have both adopted a position favorable to federal regulation of greenhouse gases. Even Exxon Mobil appears to see the writing on the wall.

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2006112401361.html - Preview

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