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Entries from November 2006

On a mission against bondage">On a mission against bondage

November 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Om Prakash Gurjar wins Children’s Peace Prize 
He used to work as a bonded labourer in the fields of Rajasthan to repay his grandfather’s debt. One fine day, things changed dramatically for Om Prakash Gurjar after Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) activists rescued him from bonded labour and gave him a new lease of life at Bal [...]

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Tags: Actuality · Asia · Developing Countries · World

Rethinking the concept of skyscraper">Rethinking the concept of skyscraper

November 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

“Awe is not usually a condition our buildings inspire.” Rem Koolhaas
Set on a site that’s about as large as 37 football fields, Rem Koolhaas’s television authority headquarters in Beijing may initially seem intimidating. This 54-story tower leans and looms like some kind of science-fiction creature poised to stomp all over the surrounding central business district.
Being [...]

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Tags: Art & Culture · Asia · Design & Technology · Photography & journalism

Splintering in a polarized country">Splintering in a polarized country

November 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Yesterday, 22th. November, The Netherlands turned voting. Although the Christian-Democrats (CDA) turned out to be (again) the largest party,  the big (remarkable) winners were extreme left (the Socialist party) and extreme right (Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom, which is a hardliner in the immigration debate), both at the cost of the Labour Party (PvdA) and [...]

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Tags: Actuality · Politics & International Relations

Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis.">Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis.

November 12th, 2006 · No Comments

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in the Human Development Report 2006 report released on November 9, 2006, has said that lack of water is caused by lack of power, rather than by limited resources. “The scarcity at the heart of the global water crisis is rooted in power, poverty and equality, not in [...]

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Tags: Developing Countries · Politics & International Relations · Sustainable Development · World

Kids reveal the future of the Internet">Kids reveal the future of the Internet

November 11th, 2006 · No Comments

Next time you’re feeling a bit annoyed by your teenager’s obsession with MySpace, consider this: She and 72 million of her close friends may be shaping the future of business.
That may sound like an overblown description of the role MySpace, YouTube, flickr and del.icio.us play in the ever-evolving world of the Web, but there’s ample [...]

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Tags: Design & Technology · Globalization & Global Culture